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Screamer/Motion Picture Times, L. A., July 21, 1917.
James T. Kelley, Eric Campbell, the broke Charlie, and Edna
Purviance in „The Immigrant.“ Photo from
Theodore Huff, Charlie Chaplin, New York, 1951
& When the last Chaplin comedy for Mutual
is released it will be surprising if every member of the cast
is all smiles for nothing but misfortune has dogged
the company‘s footsteps since the picture was started. The first happening was the death of Mrs. Eric Campbell,
wife of the big comedian who always tries to murder Charlie
in every comedy. Close on the heels of this tragedy
one of Campbell‘s daughters was in a wrecked automobile
and all the four occupants were severely injured.
At the same time Chaplin himself was taken sick and confined
to his rooms. To cap the climax Edna Purviance
was also taken sick for the first time in her young life and
all in all a gloom hangs over the Chaplin company
that even a million dollar contract cannot wholly dispel.
(...) Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, July 29, 1917
& Laura V. Austin of the Chaplin Company
was injured when a street car collided with the auto
in which she was riding one day last week. She is confined
to her home and will not be out for some time.
She suffered severe shock, a wrenched back, bruises
and lacerations.
(...) Screamer/Motion Picture Times, July 21, 1917
„Following a supper party“
Editorial content. „ERIC CAMPBELL‘S WIFE DEAD
The star of misfortune seems to have trailed the paths
of the family of Eric Campbell, heavyweight heavy
man with Charlie Chaplin, for his wife succumbed to a sudden
attack of heart trouble and his daughter, Miss Una
Campbell, narrowly escaped death.
Miss Campbell, who is a member of the company at the
Lone Star Studio, was driving downtown with a party
of friends to purchase mourning garments for her mother‘s
funeral when the machine in which they were riding
was struck by a Los Angeles Railway car. The four occupants
of the automobile, who were thrown out and injured,
are Miss Campbell, Mrs. Laura V. Austin, Miss Theresa
Mahoney and W. E. Mong.
Rev. L. M. Idelman, affiliated with Christ Episcopal Church,
conducted funeral services at the chapel of Rosedale
Cemetery, where the body was given over to the crematory.
Mrs. Campbell‘s end came suddenly and a few
hours following a supper party at which several members
of the Chaplin company were guests. Death was
due to heart failure.“
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