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Jack Jungmeyer, Town Talk, Alexandria, Louisiana, Sept. 26, 1924.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN DIRECTING AND ACTING

IN „THE GOLD RUSH.“

(...) Photo, Town Talk, Alexandria, Sept. 26, 1924

„Wholly unlike anything hitherto done“

Editorial content. „Gossip of The Silver Screen

      Chaplin‘s Newest Picture, Set in Alaska, Will Take

      Year to Finish

      By Jack Jungmeyer

      HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 26. – The movie‘s forecast mime

is. and has been for months, the least talked of and

the most inconspicuous figure in Hollywood.

      So far as a publicity-bombarded world is concerned,

Charlie Chaplin might actually be in hibernation

amid the snows upon which he is fashioning his new picture,

tentatively called The Gold Rush.

      For seven months Chaplin has been working on this

production. It is likely that he will be on it four or five

months more. During that time he‘s practically been a hermit

– recluse to all save his studio associates. Only

the vagues mutterings of progress come from the set.

      When Chaplin works he burrows into solitude.

He broods, agonizes, sweats comedy and its dramatic

counterbalance from the soul. He creates by

inspiration. When the mood is upon he toils feverishly.

Then he may rest and brood again for weeks.

And always when the productive throes are upon him

he is sensitive as a mole to the thumpings

of the outside world.“ (...)

      „Accounted in the baggy pants, the floppy shoes, the old

derby and stick pf early association, he thaws fun from

a frosty, forbidding background. The dreadful ,Chikoot Pass,‘

through which the Klondike stampede passed,

is the scene, reproduced in the summit of the California

Sierras. In the role of a hardluck sourdough,

Chaplin twists the sufferings of the Alaskan pioneers into

strange commingling of humor and tragedy. The

treatment promises to be wholly unlike anything hitherto

done.“ (...)

      Also in Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Illinois, Sept. 27, 1924,

      Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 1, 1924,

      Tampa Times, Tampa, Florida, Oct. 4, 1924,

      Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, Oct. 5, 1924,

      and Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Canada, Nov. 7, 1924.

      Jack Jungmeyer is reviewer

      of the Newspaper Enterprise Association.

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