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Frederick (Fred) Schader, Variety, New York, October 26, 1917.
The Adventurer Scenes
& Frederick (Fred) Schader
(...) Photo, Variety, Dec. 10, 1910
„The audience almost bursts with laughter“
Editorial content. „The Adventurer.
From the standpoint of laughs this two-reel Chaplin-Mutual
is about the funniest turned out by the new Mutual
during the entire time the comedian has been with it. It is a
combination of all the surefire laugh getters that
Chaplin has ever used with a couple of added starters
for good measure. But it sure is a picture that will
bring the laughs so fast that one must figure what there
is for Chaplin to follow it with. Chaplin starts out
as an escaped convict, opportunity for chase stuff, and there
are a few new wrinkles in the hunt along the beach
by the prison guards. The up and down the path chase,
the climb up the side of a cliff and the trapping of Chaplin
in a cave and his escape all brought laughs, but it was
not until he ingratiated himself into the family of the Judge
that sent him away, by rescuing the wife and daughter
from a watery grave, attended by the usual comedy stunts,
that the real laughs began. The big scream occurs
when Chaplin spills a dish of ice cream into the front of his
trousers while sitting on the balcony of the Judge‘s
home with the latter‘s daughter (the other guests being
seated below). Chaplin in shaking the cream down
his trouser‘s leg lets it fall through a space in the floor and
onto the back of one of the grande dames in a gown
very much decollete. As the ice slips down her back and
disappears into the folds of her dress the audience
almost bursts with laughter. There are the usual fill-ins with
the drinks and the dance floor stuff which bring a few
laughs, finally a chase when the prison guards discover their
man is at the Judge‘s house. Chaplin makes excellent
use of a funny piece of business with a folding door, but finally
escapes while the chief warder releases hold to to shake
hands with a pretty girl the comedian introduces. Chaplin does
not rely on his hop, skip, jump, run, nor his moustache
tricks in this picture. His shoes are not the usual Chaplin
footgear, and the cane is also missing; but Chaplin
without them is funnier than ever. Fred.“
Fred is Frederick Schader.
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