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Robert Herring, Close Up, Territet, Switzerland, May 1930

„Not done in the Chaplin ,through-no-fault-of-my-own‘ neuroses“

Editorial content. „CINEMA CIRCUS

      There has been no paucity of circus-films. No one can say

that. They have all felt the lure of the naptha, Ronald

Colman, Janet Gaynor and Murnau‘s merry men, Lon Chaney,

Mary Philbin, Jacqueline Logan, Mr. Charles Chaplin

and Norma Shearer, and hundreds of Poverty Row people.“ (...)

      „When Hardy has a cold, it is Laurel who gets up to

prepare a bath, which he does so badly that Hardy wishes

he had done it himself. When Laurel wants to go to

sleep, it is Hardy who pours a jug of water in his bed. And

it is Laurel who gives away the tricks when Hardy is

a conjurer. He doesn‘t mean to, but even this is not done in the

Chaplin ,through-no-fault-of-my-own‘ neuroses.“ (...)

                                                                „Robert Herring.“

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