The Floorwalker Clippings 78/84
Film Fun, New York, August 1916.
THE BELGIAN RATTLESNAKE AT OVILLERS – The British
Army has adapted the Lewis machine gun, rejected
by the United States Government, to the individual soldier
by attaching it to a rifle butt.
(...) American Press Association Photo,
New York Tribune, Aug. 20, 1916
& The new cavalryman of France. He is prepared, with
the steel helmet, for duty in the trenches.
(...) Underwood & Underwood Photo, New York Tribune,
Sept. 24, 1916, detail
„Where we spend a pleasant time with Charlie Chaplin“
Editorial content. „Picture Fans in the Trenches
,You know, we are great picture fans out here in the trenches,‘
writes Frank Badgely, a young Canadian officer,
whose letter is marked ,In Active Service.‘ He writes to thank
us for sending him a copy of FILM FUN, which
he assures us was greatly appreciated in his particular
,dug-out.‘ ,When we get a chance, we go to the
,Soldiers‘ Theater,‘ where we spend a pleasant time with
Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle, Sir Herbert Tree
and the Leystone (Keystone) Police.“
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