The Floorwalker Clippings 49/84
Karl K. Kitchen, Photoplay, New York, May 1916.
Max Pallenberg, the Teutonic Chaplin, can assimilate
a custard pie with the same eclat
portrayed by his Anglo-American brother.
Cartoon. Herb Roth
(...) Karl K. Kitchen, Photoplay, May 1916
& U.-T.-LICHTSPIELE IM BAVARIAHAUS,
Zuschauerraum, seitlich vom Orchester aus, Berlin, 1914,
in Hans Schliepmann, Lichtspieltheater, Berlin 1914
& Licht-Spiele im BAVARIAHAUS, FRIEDRICHSTRASSE 130,
ECKE TAUBENSTRASSE, Ansicht in der
Friedrichstrasse mit Hauptzugang, Architekt Ernst Moritz
Lesser, Berlin, 1914, in Hans Schliepmann,
Lichtspieltheater, Berlin 1914
„Chaplin is unknown in Germany“
Editorial content. „The Light of Europe
Concerning the continental photoplay, war‘s opiate
from Budapest to Brussels
By Karl K. Kitchen“ (...)
„THERE is but one topic of conversation in Berlin –
the war. There is but one place where the Berliner
can forget it and its concomitant horrors and sorrows – the
Lichtspiele – the ,movies‘; and then only for an hour
or so, because war scenes are a part of every film program.“ (...)
But to get back to the bill at Friedrichstrasse Lichtspiele.
Here I had my first glimpse of Germany‘s funny film man Max Pallenberg, the Teutonic Charley Chaplin, who
can assimilate a custard pie with the same eclat portrayed
by his Anglo-Saxon brother. Chaplin is unknown
in Germany, although in England and France he is a tremendous favorite. I saw Max first in Der Rasende Roland,
a succession of slapstick stunts – a film in which Chaplin
would have been perfectly at home.
Loud laughter, the first I had heard in a Berlin movie, greeted
Max‘s antics, which were undeniably funny, but from
the conversation I overheard, the serious Swedish photoplay
which followed was much more appreciated.“ (...)
„During my stay in Berlin I visited the Lichtspiele ,Mozart
Saal‘ in the Nollendorfplatz and the Kammer Lichtspiele
on the Potsdamerplatz – two of the largest and highest class
moving picture theatres in the German capital – and
at both of them I was impressed with the fact that the serious
films interested the audience far more than the comedies.
At the Kammer Lichtspiele a three act comedy by Arthur Landsberger“ He is the scenario writer. „called Pension Lampel, disclosed
several German film favorites – Hanni Weisse, Senta Stoneland,“
It‘s the comedienne Senta Söneland. „Albert Paulig,
Herman Picha and Ferry Sikla.“ (...)
U. T. Lichtspiele Friedrichstrasse, Friedrichstr. 130, Berlin-Mitte.
Redaktioneller Inhalt. „Chaplin ist in Deutschland unbekannt.“
