Sunnyside Clippings 17/118
Cal York, Photoplay, New York, April 1919
„He might not make any more First National pictures“
Editorial content. „Plays and Players
Real news and interesting comment about motion
pictures and motion picture people.“
By Cal York“ (...)
„Charlie Chaplin was the cause of the first real skyhigh
explosion from this bubbling crater of monetary
diversity. First of all, it seems that his present employers
wanted to know why he made only two pictures
in the past year instead of six or eight. Charlie intimated
that he was in the art business; and that his
canning-factory days were over.“ (...)
„Then brother Syd Chaplin, looking to his own business
interests, foregathered with the First National men,
and it was reported that he had signed a contract with them
to do two five-reel photoplays at $100,000 each.
Later, Syd denied this report. Charlie has always been
opposed to more than one Chaplin name in
pictures, so his answer was to announce that he would rest
for awhile. He would close his studio, and take his
wife to Europe for a vacation. While his prevailing powers
were trying to digest this sudden information came
the the super-explosion whose effects at this writing (February
first) have done more to quiet the situation than
to confuse it.
And this, in brief, was an announcement asserting that
Mr. Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas
Fairbanks and William S. Hart would unite to distribute their
own product.“ (...) „Mr. Chaplin announced that his
contract had been fractured already – he might not make
any more First National pictures.“ (...)
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