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Herbert Howe, Photoplay, New York, November 1925.

Konrad Bercovici, undated

& Konrad Bercovici, Charles Chaplin, Chaplin Studio,

Los Angeles, 1920s

& Charles Chaplin (with Roland Totheroh, Jack Wilson,

Harry D‘Arrast) directing „A Woman of Paris“

& Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou,  „A Woman of Paris,“

Written and Directed by Charles Chaplin

(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, Jan. 5, 1924, detail

& THE embodiment of sophistication, a man

who can express more with a quirk of his mouth or a lift of his

eyebrow or just a glance than many actors with a whole

bag of gestures. Adolphe Menjou is rapidly approaching the top

of the ladder to motion picture fame.

(...) Photo by Richee, Photoplay, July 1924

& CHAPLIN TO MAKE PICTURE IN EAST

      May Film „Suicide Club“ or „The Clown“

      in Gotham Town (...)

      Charles S. Chaplin, the marrying comic of California, has

arrived in New York and announced he might endow

this section of the country with his genius for a season or two.

Charlie, unattended by his newest bride or his infant

son, Spencer, remarked that he liked the little town on the

Hudson river and might decide to settle here.

      „After six years in Hollywood,“ he said, restraining that

impulse to stab the porter with his walking stick as the

train docked at Grand Central. „I think I might do well to make

a picture in New York. I want to work out one or two new

ideas ,The Suicide Club‘ and ,The Clown.‘“

      The maestro of the celluloid snicker left his current

family in the west to come on for the New York

premiere of his picture, „The Gold Rush,“ the first favor he has vouchsafed to his public for about two years.

(...) United News Leased Wire, Bakersfield Californian,

Bakersfield, Cal., Aug. 10, 1925

„Herculean efforts put forth by Chaplin to make Menjou an actor“

Editorial content. „CLOSE-UPS & LONG SHOTS

      Satire, Humor and Some Sense

      By Herbert Howe“ (...)

      „AMID swirls of verbal incense concerning the genius

of Charlie Chaplin, Konrad Bercovici in an article for

Collier‘s reveals the herculean efforts put forth by Chaplin

to make Menjou an actor. You gather from the

article that Menjou is just the the usual Hollywood puppet,

the like of which has turned many a Christian

director into a blasphemer.

   The bunk of the idol-worshipping Bercovici is refuted

by the intelligent Mr. Menjou, who remarked lang

ago to me that an actor could be no greater than his director.

He always has given Chaplin full credit for his

opportunity.

      Menjou need not bow to Chaplin as an actor.

He is an artist as superior to the Hollywood harlequin

as a Rolls-Royce to a peanut roaster. He happens

to be a college man and a gentleman, two facts which

I am pleased to record, inasmuch as both have

been deemed incompatible with success in pictures.

      His subleties are caviar – not only for the

general but for the mob. In the preview of The Grand

Duchess and the Waiter at Pasadena he elicited

squeals of delight from hoi polloi as well as from us of the

skyscraper brows.“

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