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Moving Picture World, New York, December 14, 1918.
Charlie Chauffeuring a Grindstone.
(...) Photo, Moving Picture World, Dec. 14, 1918
& Sunnyside Set, Discovering Chaplin
„It was good stuff“
Editorial content. „Rubbernecking in Filmland
Los Angeles Correspondent Personally
Conducts Our Readers Through the West Coast Studios
By Giebler“ (...)
„Feeling the need of merriment I left there and went
out to the Chaplin plant.
,Is Charlie working?´I inquired of Alfred Reeves.
,Come with me´, said Al, and I followed him out on the
lot to where the inimitable Charles was doping out
a new comedy. It was good stuff – Chaplin is funny making
a comedy as he is in the finished film, but because
there are many copy-cats in filmland – stuff that may not
be spoken of here.
The Bridegroom and the Grindstone.
I chirked up quite a bit, and then – Charlie mounted
to the chauffeur‘s seat of a grindstone, threw her
in high, opened the muffler and was off and sadness
settled her somber shadow on my brow again.
To any man who has worn the galling chains of matrimony
long enough to know the terrible truth of the fable
of the married man‘s nose and the grindstone, the sight
of a newly created benedict and an instrument
of this sort cannot but give rise to shudder of sympathy
and the saddest pf sad thoughts.
There was Charlie, freshly wedded, fooling with
a grindstone, the symbol of marital chains, all
unconscious of what the future has in store for all married men!
Wringing the hand of Edward W. Biby, who also
understands, I dashed the tears from my eyes and stumbled
away to the Pacific Electric street car and was so
overcome that I almost lacked strength to call the conductor‘s
attention to the fact that he had given me too much
change for the four-bit piece I tendered him in payment
of my fare.“
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