The Floorwalker Clippings 17/84
Evening World, New York, February 19, 1916.
Loew‘s New York Theatre with sign advertising Grand Pipe
Organ, Photo-Plays and Symphony Orchestra
at Times Square during rush hour, New York, Jan. 1917, detail
„In the Plaza Hotel, where he is staying“
Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin Would Be a Screen Hamlet;
Ambition Consumes King of the Movies
Favorite of the Film Fans Can‘t Laugh at Himself, but
He Hasn‘t Yet seen Himself as the Melancholy
Dan – Nizola Greeley-Smith Finds him a Fine Chap, With
Brains, Even if His Toes Do Turn Up.
By Nizola Greeley-Smith.
The least of lives has its great moments. I had my great
hour yesterday when I met Charlie Chaplin, king
of the movies, for the first time. Not the way you have met him
on every screen from Maine to Honolulu, but actually
face to face, and in the Plaza Hotel, where he is staying.“ (...)
He wants a woman for his wife who is beautiful
and brilliant.
„Oh, no, you don‘t,“ I protested. Brains frighten men.
Brains are the scarecrow that warn men away
from beauty when those two rare qualities exist in the
same woman.
„That‘s true,“ admitted Mr. Chaplin. „Men do want to –
well, look down on a woman, or rather they want
her look up to them. But you know, really, I haven‘t got
brains enough to feel that way. I think I should
like an intelligent woman. Yes, I‘m sure I should.“ (...)
„Do you read Shakespeare for recreation?“
I asked.
„No, indeed: I read W. J. Locke,“ Mr. Chaplin replied. „But
when I want to have a really good time I play the violin.“
„Ragtime?“
„No,“ he answered. „I dislike ragtime; I play classics –
only those I can pick up by ear.“ (...)
„Mr. Chaplin,“ I said, „I understand that two years ago,
before you were as famous as you are now,
a manager offered you $1,000 a week, and you said, ,Make
it $1,025 and I‘ll take it.‘ ,What is the $25 for?‘
asked the manager, to which you answered, ,The $25 is for
living expenses.‘“
PUTS HIMSELF IN THE LAUDER THRIFT CLASS.
„That‘s true,“ Charlie Chaplin answered. „I have
to admit it, even though my brother says I‘m getting a reputation
for thrift second only to Harry Lauder‘s.“
„Then you really are a good chorus girl and safe
your salary?“ (...)
„Are you going to be married? Is your ideal woman
a blonde or a brunette?“
„She is – BOTH,“ replied the King of the Movies.
„I admire all pretty women. I love beauty. And
I really mean to marry and settle down when I have had
some of the spices of life.“ (...)
OCT. 12 ON THE CALENDAR IS CHAPLIN DAY.
„When did you first see yourself on the screen?“ „In October,
1914, the 12th, I think it was.“ (...)
„How did the discovery of Charlie Chaplin affect you?“
I asked.
„It was indescribable,“ answered the King of the Movies.
„I felt like a corpse watching his disembodied spirit.
I was disappointed. I had not imagined that I looked like that
and my vanity got a great shock. But, still, I was
interested! Maybe I had better say that I felt like a disembodied
spirit watching a corpse. I did not feel a bit like laughing.
I have never laughed at myself yet. A man can‘t seem funny
to himself,“ Mr. Chaplin philosophized. „He knows
himself too well.‘
But we must remember that Mr. Chaplin has not seen
himself as Hamlet – yet.“
Partly reprinted in Washington Post,
Feb. 20, 1916.
Oct. 12, 1914: It’s his first personal appearance Chaplin
is talking about. It takes place at the Morosco‘s
Burbank Theater, Broadway near Eighth Street, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Herald, Oct. 10, 1914:
„NEW STARS AT MOROSCO
Let‘s Get Married will start upon the fourth week of its run
at the Morosco Monday. Next week there will
be a real sensation at the Monday night performance,
when Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Murray and
Roscoe Arbuckle, the big three comedians of the Keystone
company, will produce a movie specialty.“
Los Angeles Herald, Oct. 12, 1914:
„Tonight Is Photoplayers‘ Night
Don‘t Miss It
Charles Chaplin Charles Murray Roscoe Arbuckle
will appear at the Morosco Theater,
Tonight Only,
in a moving picture specialty which will be a Screamer and
which will be a feature of the musical success
Let‘s Get Married.“
Those Love Pangs is released by Keystone
Oct. 10, 1914.
Charlie Chaplin Would Be a Screen Hamlet
In June 1915 Motion Picture Magazine had
published a cartoon under the title: A FEW THINGS
THAT WE NEVER EXPECT TO SEE!
The cartoon shows Charlie Chaplin as Hamlet.
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