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Washington Times, Washington, D. C., January 24, 1916.
MOBILIZING THE MINUTE-GIRLS (...)
Suit from James A. Hearn & Son.
We hope she will never have any real use for this
cartridge belt, but it is here as the distinguishing
feature of this khaki suit. And there are the regulation army
buttons, just like those on the soldier boy‘s uniform,
and pockets enough to delight the most militant of minute-girls.
(...) New York Tribune, May 20, 1917
& SIDELIGHTS ON
LIFE AT FRONT
Member of Tobin‘s Tigers Writes Entertainingly on Conditions
In and Back of the Trenches.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN IS POPULAR WITH TROOPS
Soldiers Entertain Themselves With Football,
Band Concerts and Movies.
Writing from „Somewhere in France“ to a friend in this city,
a member of Tobin‘s Tigers gives some interesting
sidelights on conditions at the front and the plane made to amuse
the men while off duty. The letter follows:
„Charlie Chaplin in ,The Knock out.‘“ Such an announcement
greets the eye of a Canadian soldier passing through
the streets of a city of France well within the fire zone. The
sound of the guns is plainly audible from this city,
but that has not prevented the British authorities in providing
amusement for the men, who in stated intervals are
brought out of the trenches and given a well-earned rest.“ (...)
„Chaplin Holds Boards.
For the evenings, cinemas are the easiest and most popular
form of entertainment in the field, a fair sized hall being
all that is required to start such operations. Charlie Chaplin holds
the boards in this line and at every performance this
celebrated British star provides laughter and real amusement
for the boys in khaki.“
(...) Vancouver Daily World, Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 21, 1
& The cardboard „cut-outs“ of Chaplin have
penetrated to many queer places, from dry-goods stores
to churches , street-hawkers‘ barrows to saloons,
out as a mascot for the troops in the trenches the mute ballyhoo
attains a status quite original. Particularly when it is
officially placed on record as the following extract from a letter
received last week by Mr. Spoor shows: „I have to thank
you for the gift of films. It is impossible to make you realize how
they were appreciated and I truly wish you could have
heard the cheer that went up when Charlie went on the screen.
The cardboard posters of Chaplin were carried off
during the night to the trenches and have been the subject
of great attention by the Allemandes. – W. Murphy,
Major, Army Service Corps.“
(...) J. B. Sutcliffe, British Notes, Moving Picture World,
Jan. 1, 1916
„One bombardment lasted two hours“
Editorial content. „Germans Waste Fire on
Wooden Charlie Chaplin
Northern France. Jan. 21. – A wooden effigy of Charlie
Chaplin, looted from the front of a picture show
in Yorkshire and brought to France is daily hoisted up over
one of the trenches to the fury of the Germans,
who subject Charlie to severe bombardment. One bombardment
lasted two hours and resulted in little material damage.“
The same message appears in
Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Jan. 24, 1916,
Janesville Daily Gazette, Janesville, Wisconsin, Jan. 24, 1916,
Atchison Champion, Atchison, Kansas, Jan. 24, 1916,
Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Jan. 24, 1916,
Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, Illinois, Jan. 24, 1916,
Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jan. 24, 1916,
Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kansas, Jan. 24, 1916,
Santa Ana Register, Santa Ana, California, Jan. 24, 1916,
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. The Evening News,
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jan. 24, 1916,
Wausau Daily Herald, Wausau, Wisconsin, Jan, 24, 1916,
Huntington Herald, Huntington, Indiana, Jan. 25, 1916,
Modesto Evening News, Modesto, California, Jan. 25, 1916,
Tacoma Times, Tacoma, Washington, Jan. 25, 1916
and many others,
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