The Floorwalker Clippings 24/84
Variety, New York, March 3, 1916.
SYD. CHAPLIN in A SUBMARINE PIRATE Poster
& CHAPLIN GIVES $75,000 AWAY:
BOTHER SID IS THE RECIPIENT
(...) Variety, March 17, 1916
„He turned the check over to Sid“
Editorial content. „Sid Chaplin Did It.
As could have been anticipated, the dailies refused
to accept seriously the statement of Charlie
Chaplin‘s $670,000 contract with the Mutual. Some of the papers attributed it to ,press work‘ and others were inclined
to kid the announcement.
Nevertheless the contract calling for that amount within
one year has been signed, and Chaplin received
a part payment of the $150,000 bonus when attaching his name
to the agreement.“ (...)
„Charlie Chaplin starts for the Coast this week-end,
leaving behind in New York his brother, Sid, who
has been the business head directing all of the details for the
enormous salary paid Charlie in the final agreement.
Considerable curiosity has been aroused in the picture trade
as to just who was engineering the business end for
Chaplin, and Sid gets all of the credit. The intimacy between
the brothers is so close that when Charlie received
his first installment of the $150,000 payment he turned the
check over to Sid, who deposited it in his (Sid‘s)
own bank account.
Sid is the elder brother. Charlie is 26 years of age.
Sid has continually safeguarded his brother, Charlie‘s, interests.
Sid remains in New York to have an injury
to his leg, when making his famous Submarine comedy
feature in four reels, attended to.“ (...)
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