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Cal York, Photoplay, New York, January 1924.

Barnum and Bailey‘s Circus went up to the Bellevue Hospital

in New York to perform before the children who were

too ill to go to the circus. On the right are trained dogs and

the imitator of Charlie Chaplin, in one of the wards.

(...) Photo by Underwood & Underwood, Washington Post,

Washington, D. C., May 16, 1920, detail

& Cirque Krone, (sosie de) Charlot, Munich, Allemagne,

sept. 1924, Agence Rol, photographie de presse, Bibliothèque nationale de France

& WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN!

Here We Have Douglas Fairbanks,

As the Strong Man, Charlie Chaplin, As the Clown,

and Mary Pickford As the Bareback Rider.

(...) Photo-Play Journal, July 1919

& Charles Chaplin, Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus performers,

Nogales, Arizona, Oct. 1924, Roy Export

& „Yes, I have what I trust is a really big idea for a picture

I want to play to play in. I‘ve carried it around in my

mind for a couple of years, the way we all do, and I hope

to use it in the near future. It‘s about a clown. It will

show the hardships of his life. It will present him behind the

scenes as it‘s never been done before – truthfully.

It won‘t have any of the sentimental romance you see o often

in such plays. It will show how his work is simply bread

and cheese to him – merely his means of earning his living,

nothing more. And it will reveal his utter contempt

for his audiences.

      „It‘s like ,Deburau‘? I never saw that play and I don‘t know

its history. Of course, this picture will have its comedy,

but it will be the most serious thing I‘ve ever attempted. For

my custard pie days are over. Yes, possibly I shall

do ,Beau Brummell: some day.“

(...) CHARLIE CHAPLIN, PHILOSOPHER, HAS SERIOUS SIDE

By Frank Vreeland, New York Herald, Sept. 11, 1921

      The play Deburau with Lionel Atwill as Jean-Gaspard

      Deburau opens at Belasco Theatre, New York, Dec. 23, 1920

      and closes June 1921.

„The first will be The Clown“

Editorial content. „GOSSIP – East & West

      By Cal York“ (...)

      „THERE is a great deal of speculation going on in Hollywood

right now in regard to Charlie Chaplin‘s future plans.“ (...)

      „The first will be The Clown, a story of his own that

he has been wanting to do for years.“ (...)

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