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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, December 27, 1925.

Edna Purviance Cigarette Card, undated

& CHARLES CHAPLIN STUDIO, 1416 La Brea Ave.

      Charles Chaplin directing „The Circus“ with

      Charles Chaplin and Merna Kennedy.

      Joseph Von Sternberg directing „The Sea Gull“

      with Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Eve Southern

      and Gayne Whitman.

(...) What the Stars and Directors Are Doing NOW,

WEST COAST (Unless otherwise specified studios are at

Hollywood) , Photoplay, May 1926

& CHARLIE CHAPLIN is making progress with his next picture,

„The Circus.“ Two or three hundred scenes have been

run thru the camera. Chaplin usually takes three or four thousand

scenes before he starts cutting his production.

      The comedian is planning to produce another picture

with Edna Purviance un the stellar rôle. Joseph von Sternberg

will direct.

(...) Gossip of the Camera Coasts By Agnes Smith and

Milton Howe, Motion Picture, May 1926

& Edna Purviance Returns

      In „The Sea Gull“

      Edna Purviance, star of Charlie Chaplin‘s famed photoplay,

„A Woman of Paris,“ after an absence from the screen

is once more back in the fold at the Chaplin studio playing

the featured role in „The Sea Gull,“ an original story;

a drama of modern California, written and directed by Josef

von Sternberg.

      Preparations for Miss Purviance‘s second dramatic

vehicle have been going on for some time under

the guidance of von Sternberg and after a careful search

for new screen faces the following supporting cast

has been enageged: Raymond Bloomer, who will be seen

in the leading role opposite Miss Purviance; Eve

Sothern and Gayne Whitman.

(...) San Francisco Examiner, March 9, 1926

& VON STERNBERGS APART

      4 MONTHS MARRIED

      Riza Royce Tired of Married Life After

      Honeymoon in Europe

      Los Angeles, Oct. 26.

      Joseph Von Sternberg, film director, and his wife,

Riza Royce, film actress, have separated after four months

of a turbulent honeymoon.

      The couple were married when Von Sternberg

finished the Edna Purviance picture for Charles Chaplin and

immediately went to Europe.

      No sooner back in Hollywood two weeks ago, than

Mrs. Von Sternberg stated she had grown tired of married

life and left her husband, going to the DuPont Hotel.

      She told her friends that she could not stand

a temperamental husband and that she would immediately

seek her freedom.

(...) Variety, Oct. 27, 1926

„To be directed by Chaplin“

Editorial content. „Tell Me –“ (...)

      Q(uestion). Whatever became of Edna Purviance,

who used to play opposite Chaplin in Charlie‘s old comedies

and who hasn‘t been seen since A Woman of Paris?

                                                                           H. M.

      A(nswer). She has just returned from an extended

vacation in Europe, and is soon to return to the screen in a

forthcoming picture to be directed by Chaplin.“ (...)

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