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Motography, Chicago, March 11, 1916.

One of the 175 millimeter guns, disguised to represent the

surrounding woods, which are defending Verdun.

(...) STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN TO THE BARK OF THE WAR DOGS, Modern Photo Service, New York Tribune, March 12, 1916

& Two (Too) Much Chaplin

      Movie Star Disrupts Basketball Team – Coach in Despair

      Over Situation.

      PLAINFIELD, N. J., March 10. – Another evil arising from

the movies has been discovered. According to

Charles D. Wardlaw, coach at Leal‘s School, either basketball

or motion-pictures will have to go. (...)

      He noticed, for instance, that when Charlie Chaplin

was shown here the forwards shot only

50 per cent as many baskets as on other days.

(...) Times Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, March 11, 1916


„Next to the war in Europe“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Company Forming

      Charley Gets $670,000“

      Photo. „CHARLES CHAPLIN has signed a contract that

will pay him $670,000 for the first year to appear

exclusively in the releases of the Mutual Film Corporation and

as a result there is being formed a Chaplin producing

company, involving the sum of $1,550,000.“ (...)

      „Next to the war in Europe, Chaplin is the most expensive

item in contemporaneous history.“ (...)


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