The Floorwalker Clippings 79/84
Lucy Clifford, London Times, London, England, September 6, 1916.
JOKER CHARLIE CHAPLIN
(...) Ideal Christmas Gift A Movie Card Party! Movie Souvenir
Playing Cards, Photoplay, Dec. 1916
& „GOOD OLD CHARLIE!“
„NOW FOR ENGLAND AND A BIT OF PEACE“
If Charlie Chaplin came to England in order
to escape the attention lavished upon him by the American
public, he would fail dismally.
(...) Our Cinematographic Cartoons. No. 45. The Penalty of Fame,
Pictures and The Picturegoer, London, Oct. 16, 1915
& UNCLE TIM‘S CHRISTMAS DREAM.
Drawn by Gladys Turner.
(...) Pictures and The Picturegoer, London, Dec. 18, 1915
& WHOSE FEET ARE THESE?
A banana is offered as first prize.
(...) Cartoon by Wattie Brown, Pictures and The Picturegoer,
London, Dec. 18, 1915
& London Pavilion, exterior by night, electric sign Fredric March
Joan Bennett „TRADE WINDS,“ London 1938
& „Uncle Tom‘s Cabin“ at the London Pavilion – This arresting
sign drew crowds to the London Pavilion because
a banjo, amplified by eight loud speakers, made the sign vocal.
(...) Universal Weekly, Jan. 28, 1928
„They would have got up and walked out“
Editorial content. „THE SOMME PICTURES.
To the Editor of The Times.
Sir, – I am amazed at the objections raised to the Somme
pictures. They are a most wise as well as a vivid
exponent of the war. May I give my own experience? On the
second afternoon of their showing I went to the
Pavilion at the Marble-arch. By 2.15 the big hall was packed
(they were shown at 2.30). The first item was on
the programme was a short and excellent film, also of war
actualities. Then, when the band had played ,Land
of Hope and Glory,‘ came the Somme pictures. The effect was
wonderful. You could feel that the immense audience
understood, as it had never done before, all that was being
risked and suffered for us, and that its heart went
out in gratitude and admiration. In the marching and lighter
scenes there were vigorous cheers, at the end more
and more cheers; the National anthem followed, and at the
first notes we sprang to our feet not only in honour
of the King, but of the courage, the magnificence, of the men
to whom we had suddenly felt so near. As for being
painful – are we afraid of knowing, of seeing, what they are
not afraid of doing for every one of us? After ,God
Save the King‘ came a long, extremely well-done film
of a celebrated play, with a popular actor and
a beautiful actress in the chief parts. At any other time
it would have interested, but the Somme pictures
killed it. The audience suffered it in absolute silence, save when
from the back of the house there came six or eight
distinct hisses. People did not want that sort of thing after
realizing the life-and-death struggle of their country.
If Charlie Chaplin and his vulgarities had appeared, I believe
they would have got up and walked out.“ (...)
„I am, Sir, yours,
Waltham Cross, Sept. 4. LUCY CLIFFORD.“
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