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Photoplay, New York, December 1925.

James R. Quirk, editor of Photoplay Magazine

(...) Exhibitors Herald, Nov. 17, 1923

& Charlie Chaplin once chatted amiably about

Bolshevism, and was immediately suspected of packing bombs

in his pantaloons.

(...) Caricature by Fowler, Photoplay, Dec. 1925

& CHAPLIN INVITED TO

      STAR IN RUSSIAN FILM (...)

      The Sovjet union has invited Charlie Chaplin, the moving

picture director and star, to take part in the proposed

filming of Nikolai Gogol‘s satire on Russian life entitled „The

Overcoat.“

(...) Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 18, 1926

& Russia Needs Chaplin (The Soviet government‘s motion

picture monopoly at Moscow has invited Charlie

Chaplin to take part in film production of Gogol‘s satire,

The Overcoat. – News).  When Chaplin capers

for the Slave, Where rules the vodka spree; Where things

are never done by halves, May I be there to see!

(...) J. A., poem, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jan. 19, 1926

„A Russian tells me“

Editorial content. „Speaking of Pictures

      By James R. Quirk“ (...)

      „A Russian tells me that, when the Bolshevist officials

threw out the images of saints from Moscow cathedrals,

they replaced them with such deities as Tolstoy, Tschaikowsky

and – Charlie Chaplin, realizing, as they did, the human

need for idol worship is what you might term the Americanization

of Russian religion.

      Our movie gods are rapidly converting the heathen

and bringing the whole world to the true worship.

      The same gentleman of Moscow says that, while Russians

adore Chaplin, they are amazed by our dramatic

features.

      ,They cannot understand,‘ he says, ,how a girl can always

be saved from the soldiers in the nick of time.‘

      ,Soldiers do ruin a girl quickly,‘ they insist, ,even though

she is Lillian Gish.‘“

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