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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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