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Moving Picture World, New York, May 27, 1916.
Chester Beecroft
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, April 8, 1916, detail
& BEECROFT WITH MUTUAL
Chester Beecroft will assume the duties of general
advertising manager for Mutual. He takes charge
of that department in a few days, when he is expected
to recover from a slight indisposition.
(...) Variety, May 19, 1916
& THE FLOORWALKER.
If there exists in the mind of anyone the idea that Charlie
Chaplin is done, either as a drawing card or in an
ability to cause laughter, let him (or her) see that comedian‘s
first Mutual release, „The Floorwalker.“ To be sure
this two-reeler is aided materially by utilizing a mechanical
device – an escalator – but even eliminating the
principal wallop, the comedian‘s popular hold on the public
has not waned, nor will it so long as he is supplied
with proper material to work with. In the first place the story
is a good one – a melodrama handled, necessarily,
in slapstick fashion. When a villain ceases choking Chaplin
and remarks: „Sh! We‘re watched. I‘ll kill you some
other time,“ that‘s the essence of travesty. The work of Chaplin
and others on the escalator is impossible to description.
It must be seen to be appreciated. The comedian also has a lot
of other „business“ that he hasn‘t sprung before. See
„The Floorwalker“ and be convinced. Jolo.
(...) Variety, May 19, 1916
„2 Laughs to the Foot“
Advertisement. „A HIT!!
The First Chaplin Comedy Produced Under The
Mutual‘s $670,000,00 Contract
Mutual Chaplin Specials
Charlie Chaplin
in The Floor walker
Even the famous critic Harvey J. Thew admits
,2 Laughs to the Foot – 4000 Laughs in all.‘
Released The Week of May 15“
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