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Picture-Play, New York, February 1919.

The „Big Four“ photographed immediately after they had

signed their respective contracts „legalizing their

emotions,“ to quote Douglas Fairbanks. Left to right, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, D. W.

Griffith

(...) Moving Picture World, March 1, 1919

& The Screen in Review (...)

      By Peter Milne

      „Shoulder Arms“ is proof conclusive that Charles Spencer

Chaplin is king of all comedians. England found out

after the first year of the war that both its soldiers and those

who stayed at home reacted to the humor of war rather

than to its tragedy. After all that has been said and done it might

seem that to find comedy in the greatest tragedy of all

time would be an impossible task. But the truth is that tragedy

and comedy are all but twins. And so when Chaplin

goes to bed under water with a phonograph horn to breath

through, when his tin hat is knocked from his head

by a German bullet, when he rubs his pal‘s frost-bitten feet,

believing them his own, when he dashes hither and

yon over Flanders camouflaged as a tree, one literally splits

one‘s sides with laughter. Chaplin knew how to do it.

There are a score of comedians who would have overstepped

the bounds – who would have made their comedy gross

and offensive. Chaplin made no mistakes.    

(...) Picture-Play, Feb. 1919

& Here is another „dig-out display“ on „Shoulder Arms.“

A cut out with various hardware attached to the

figure has been used by the Superba theatre, San Diego,

Cal. The whole entrance to the theatre has been

camouflaged, even the frames holding the one sheets

having been covered over with bark effects. The

display attracted much attention.

(...) Motion Picture News, Feb. 1, 1919

„And Chaplin“

Editorial content. „Till the Boys Come Home

      The business of keeping our soldiers amused while

they‘re waiting to get back home is one of Uncle

Sam‘s important jobs just now. Here is the story of how the

movies are still ,carrying on,‘ by an American in France.

      By F. S. Tisdale.“ (...)

      „D. Fairbanks probably ranks first in the estimation of the

doughboys of the American Expeditionary Force.

But Bill Hart runs him a close second. Other particular favorites

are Mary Pickford, Earle Williams, Charles Ray,

and Chaplin.“ (...)

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