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Homer Croy, Film Fun, New York, September 1919.

Alfred Cheney Johnston (photographer), Stars o‘ the Keith

Circuit, Ernestine Meyers Who is Gracing

the Vaudeville Stage in an Act with Paisley Noon.

(...) Shadowland, Sept. 1919

„It was Charlie and it was war“

Editorial content. „Chaplin at the Front

      By Homer Croy

      (Author of the book, „How Motion Pictures Are Made“)

      HAVING just returned from France, where we were

engaged in showing motion pictures to the troops, the author

speaks with some emotion as to the part played in the

war already passed into history by motion pictures. They were

the biggest thing in the way of entertainment that we had

over there.“ (...)

      „We tried everything – English, French, Italian and

American stories. The last named were the ones

that got the hands. We tried some French comedies, and

they would have gone well except the boys didn‘t

know they were comedies. If we had played them up as

tragedies, we might have got away with it. We don‘t

like their comedies, but they like ours. The comedian that

fills their theatres is Charlie Chaplin, except that

they do not call him that. To the French he is simply ,Charlot.‘

Thousands in France do not know him by any other

name. If they heard someone speak of Mr. Chaplin, they

wouldn‘t know it was he meant. Of all the films his

most popular one was Shoulder Arms. It was Charlie and

it was war. The combination knocked them cold,

especially the camouflage scene.“ (...)

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