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Picture Play, New York, September 1929.

Charles Spencer Chaplin

      ... would rather see than hear –

(...) Time Cover, New York, Feb. 9, 1931

& The act that is „always refreshing“

Beech-Nut Gum

– Illustration Ringling Bros. and Barnum and

Bailey Combined Circus.

(...) Ad, Motion Picture, Sept. 1937

& What a Circus

      this will be, with Charlie Chaplin, the greatest clown

of them all, in the ring! Charlie plays a pathetic

ringmaster, hopelessly in love with a beautiful bareback rider.

She‘s Charlie‘s new discovery, Merna Kennedy,

and very likely the whole thing will be called a lowbrow comedy

for highbrows.

(...) Photo, Photoplay, June 1926

& Chaplin has put money into Gen. Feodor Lodijensky‘s

new cafe, „The Russian Double Eagle,“ which

was opened holiday week with the sponsorship of film

celebrities. Gen. Lodijensky is a former Russian

world war general, who has acted and assisted in the

direction of motion pictures.

(...) Daily News, New York, Jan. 2, 1929

„Better if he had spent less time pondering over every move in it“

Editorial content. „The Bystander & Fanny the Fan“ (...)

      „In Hollywood, any mention of Russia brings to mind

a disaster that hit all our hearts, to say nothing

of the less romantic portions of our anatomy. The Russian

Eagle, our new café that was the joy of the colony,

was set on fire a few weeks ago. Lots of picture people were

dining there that night, as usual, but several of them

had gone home before the fire broke out. The heroes of the fire

were Charlie Chaplain, Eddie Sutherland, and Harry

Crocker, who sought to prevent a gas explosion, and who

got a garden hose from near by, and fought the fire

until the engines arrived.

      ,Chaplin threatens to start a new picture almost any day

now,‘ Fanny announced, ,but that doesn‘t mean

that we will get to see it before we are old and gray. I wish

somebody could interest him in making quickies,

for a while. I‘m sure they would be good. In fact, I had the feeling

all the while I was watching The Circus, that it would

have been better if he had spent less time pondering over

every move in it.‘“

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