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Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Cal., September 29, 1926

„A delay of a week in finishing his picture“

Editorial content. „Conflagration Stumps Fun Maker

      Star Watches Studio Blaze

      Drops film acting to see fighters and scene in studio

      not written in circus scenario.

FIRE ENDANGERS CHAPLIN

      Blaze Discovered by Comedy King During Filming

      of Picture Brings Studio Loss

      Fire which imperiled the lives of Charlie Chaplin and his

leading lady, Merna Kennedy, swept through one

stage of the Chaplin studios at 1416 La Brea avenue yesterday

afternoon and caused a property damage of the

Kleig lights.

      The fire was discovered by Chaplin who, with members

of his supporting cast, was taking interior ,shots‘ for

his forthcoming picture, The Circus. The comedian, with the

lights focused on him and the cameras grinding,

walked into a replica of a circus-tent dressing-room only

to be startled by a rising wave of flame against

the room‘s back wall.

      Chaplin, shouting the alarm, converted his entrance into

a hasty exit. Miss Kennedy and other members of the

company also fled from the stage as flames hit into the flimsy

canvas and rolled toward the upper beams. As they

ran the skylight cracked from the heat and sent showers

of glass falling around them.

      The studio fire department and city firemen extinguished

the blaze, confining it to the one building. Valuable

sets were destroyed, according to Al Reeves, business

manager of the studio, and electrical equipment

wrecked.

      Chaplin stated after the fire that it will probably

cause a delay of a week in finishing his picture, which was

within a month of completion.“

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