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Lincoln Quarberg, UP/Times, Madera, Cal., June 27, 1925.
The Gold Rush Lobby Card
& A few doors from here is the well-known Montmartre Cafe,
which is entered up a flight of stairs from the street, and is a fairly
large place with a dance floor and tables grouped around.
This is the chief star-gazing joint in town. Its principal occasion
of the week is Wednesday lunch, when all the stars out
of a job appear in their Sunday best, hoping to remind some
director of their existence; and others come in with
make-up on during the midday studio recess, because their press agents tell them to do so. On Wednesdays the place
is so full that it is a madhouse; on other days of the week, when
there is nothing but the food to attract the eating public,
it is generally half-empty.
(...) Photo Mott, Where the Famous Feed Hollywood Restaurants
Offer Both Grazing and Gazing By Cedric Belfrage,
Motion Picture, Jan. 1929, detail
& Charlie Chaplin and his cane will soon appear in United
Artists‘ The Gold Rush. Probably the cane keeps
Charlie warm among the snow and ice that is so very
necessary to Alaska atmosphere.
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Trade Review, Feb. 7, 1925
& The Gold Rush Cigarette Card, vintagecardprices.com
& „Hollywood residents may claim to look down
on the movies,“ a Lasky official remarked to me the other day,
„but they look up quickly enough when one of the stars
passes by! My wife and I took a Boston friend to the Montmartre.
She was very supercilious about the movies. ,How one
can be interested in such common people, I can‘t understand!‘
she sniffed. ,They none of them had any ancestors,
you know. Chaplin was a gutter urchin –‘ ,Yes,‘ I remarked
casually, ,I believe he was. By the way, that is Chaplin
sitting over there in the corner.‘ The Boston lady nearly fell out
of her chair in her excitement. ,Where?‘ she gasped.
,Tell me quick! Which is he?‘
(...) Ruth Cabot, When they‘re at Home How Film Stars fare
at home as neighbors and citizens,
Pictures and The Picturegoer, London, July 1925
& The hats of the world
are off to
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
for having produced this living, breathing, human
document as real as life itself, in which
as never before Chaplin out-Chaplins Chaplin –
„The GOLD RUSH“ (...)
GRAUMAN‘S EGYPTIAN Hollywood
(...) Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1925
„This is the picture I want to be remembered by“
Editorial content. „CHAPLIN CLOSES LONG SECLUSION
By Lincoln Quarberg
United Press Staff Correspondent
Hollywood, June 27. – After shunning the public for nearly
two years, Charlie Chaplin makes a dramatic return
to the film today with the comic masterpiece of his career,
The Gold Rush.
In The Gold Rush, the Charlie Chaplin as he is known
to screen fans everywhere comes to life again,
personifying all the old-time comedy, pathos and romance.
For 18 months, the fervid Chaplin has dedicated
his life and soul to creating this comic film classic. During that
time he has been a virtual hermit, a recluse to all except
his closest friends and studio associates.
With a dramatic gesture, the funmaker now emerges
from his figurative shell, and makes the greatest
bid of his career for a renewal of favor with his multitude
of former patrons.
,This is the picture I want to be remembered by,‘
he says, almost pleadingly. ,It is my greatest comedy – yes,
it is my masterpiece.‘
Chaplin‘s genius is reflected in every foot of film that
goes out with The Gold Rush. The comedian
personally directed and supervised each detail of the filming
and his uncanny technique dominates the finished
product.
The comedian wrote his own script, directed the filming,
cut and edited each reel, and wrote his own titles.
Previous Chaplin comedies had very little story structure.
But in The Gold Rush he has created a semblance
of sequence, wringing humor and pathos from the spectacle
of a valiant weakling striving to overcome the traditional
perils of the early Alaska gold-seekers.
In the role of hard luck sourdough, dressed in the sloppy
trousers, cumbersome brogans, trick derby and cane
of early association, Chaplin has twisted the sufferings of the
Alaska pioneers into a masterful mixture of humor
and tragedy.
The Gold Rush is being released here today.
The film will not be circulated for general public consumption
until in the fall.
Meantime, Chaplin is gradually emerging from solitude.
He has faith in his master stroke of comedy, and
with the completed reels getting off to market, a load of worry
is lifted from his mind.
He is a familiar figure again in Hollywood‘s night life. He
dances and dines in public, a habit he had studiously foresworn
for many months.
Lita Gray, the 17-year-old school girl who married
Charlie at Empalme, Mexico, on November 25th, last, does not
accompany the comedian on these excursions.
Lita was Chaplin‘s leading lady in The Gold Rush until
the marriage, when she too went into seclusion
and was literally cut from the picture. The early scenes were
re-taken, with Georgia Hale, another 17-year-old
girl, playing opposite the temperamental comedian.“
UP, United Press.
The Gold Rush opens June 26, 1925
at Grauman‘s Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Bld., Los Angeles.
The Gold Rush opens August 15, 1925
at Strand Theatre, B‘way at 47th St., New York.
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