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Julian Johnson, Photoplay, New York, January 1919,

Shoulder Arms Scenes

& Julian Johnson

(...) Photo, Paramount‘s 20th Birthday Jubilee Announcement

of Product 1931 & 1932, New York, 1931

„Shoulder Arms is the glory-dream of a recruit“

Editorial content. „The Shadow Stage

      A Review of the New Photoplays

      By Julian Johnson“ (...)

      „FINALLY, the comedy.

      After an indifferent feature, after a routine news-reel,

after an average scenic – after anything, we list the funny film.

      Why? Why do we make laughter only a sideshow,

while giving our greatest homage to a little man

with a syncopated walk and microscopic moustache?“ (...)

      „In Shoulder Arms Charlie Chaplin so easily

and perfectly gets away from the bewildering trousers,

the rattan cane and the immortal derby hat that

this escape, at last, is scarcely the matter of a moment‘s

thought.

      Here he is in khaki, canvas leggings and army hat – yet

how many of us have insisted, that the gentlemanly

essentials named in the preceding paragraph were an absolutely

necessary part of his success?

      Shoulder Arms is the glory-dream of a recruit.“ (...)

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