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Photoplay, New York, December 1924.

A Woman of Paris Scene

& And here is the „destroying angel“ herself in all her  plumed

finery. It is one of the most difficult roles

of Miss Baird‘s career, remarkably well handled.

(...) Ad Photo, Exhibitors Trade Review,

Sept. 8, 1923, detail

& Have you noticed how, after a Charlie Chaplin film,

for the next 12 months Charlie‘s ideas are

served up again and again in all forms? Now do you think

this is fair? I think the public should show their

disapproval of such injustice. Last evening I went to see

„The Destroying Angel,“ and as Leah Baird stands

on the platform waiting for a lover (who doesn‘t turn up)

the train comes in and the lights are shown on her

face and on the wall – Charlie‘s idea taken straight from

„A Woman in Paris.“ Isn‘t there a law to prevent this

kind of thing? It‘s enough to keep our little comedian from

utilizing his original ideas. Ditto with „The Marriage

Circle“ and countless others. I‘d like to know what others

think.                                                          Ethna (Cardiff).

(...) Daylight Robbery. What Do You Think?

Your Views and Ours, Pictures and The Picturegoer,

London, England, Jan. 1925

„Tut! Tut!“

Editorial content. „Questions and Answers

      The Answer Man“ (...)

      „Jane, Virginia, Minn.“ (...) „You like ,brown men

like Mr. Dix.‘ And you fear that Charlie Chaplin, ,the perfect fool‘ and ,perfect artist,‘ is suffering from a broken heart

because his hair is graying. Tut! Tut! More likely it‘s the Kleig

lights, Jane. He was born in 1889, on a day in April.

Specially the sixteenth.“ (...)

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