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Picture-Play, New York, May 1925.

Raymond Griffith and Vera Reynolds, „The Night Club,“

1925, Silent Film Still Archive

& Raymond Griffith and Anne Sheridan, „Wedding Bill$,“

1927, Silent Film Still Archive

& Paramount introduces the New Sheik of Slapstick –

Raymond Griffith

Roar with Griffith in the funniest picture of 1925

„The Night Club“ (...)

Not since the discovery of Chaplin has a new

screen comedian flashed into such sensational popularity

as had Griffith (...) Paramount Ad, 1925

& C. CHAPLIN JOINS

      MUSICIAN RANKS

      Charlie Chaplin is certainly showing his versatility

these days. Now that he has completed filming

his greatest comedy, „The Gold Rush,“ Charlie took time off

from his task of cutting and titling; long enough

to conduct and play with Abe Lyman‘s Cocoanut Grove

orchestra, recording for Brunswick‘s records two

of Charlie‘s compositions, „Swing Along“ and „Orienta.“

(...) Los Angeles Evening Express, May 21, 1925

„I wish some one would get him to do it“

Editorial content. „An Extraordinary Fellow“ (...)

      „By Malcolm H. Oettinger“ (...)

      „And sure enough, there he was. Ray Griffith was not

a legend, not yet a myth; he was a short, humorous

figure in bright pajamas and a dejected opera hat that had not

been persuaded to open to its full height.

      ,Hello,‘ said the blithe Mr. Griffith, rubbing his eyes.

,I‘ve been napping.‘“ (...)

      „He twirled abruptly to look at a Menjou scene

in the making.

      Then, as in a number of his screen appearances,

he reminded me of Chaplin. But he said that

he had never worked with Charlie, although they are friends.

      ,Charlie,‘ he said, ,is the greatest mimic in the world.

He can caricature any one in a few deft strokes

– with the arching of his neck, the turn of a hand, the position

of his body. He is remarkably versatile, yet the world

knows him only as a great comedian... That ambition to do

Hamlet is no fake, either. And I believe he could act

it, on the speaking stage, with tremendous effect. I wish some

one would get him to do it.‘“

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