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Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, July 10, 1925.

The Gold Rush Scenes

& GRAUMAN‘S EGYPTIAN Hollywood

      Coolest Spot in America

      Join the Mad Rush to See the One and Only

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

in „The GOLD RUSH“

(...) Los Angeles Times, July 7, 1925

& Movie Gossip

      from Hollywood (...)

      Helen Ferguson and Bill Russell have returned from

their honeymoon, and are living at a beach cottage

at Santa Monica. This week they gave a party on Sunday;

among the guests were Patsy Ruth Miller, Ethel

Shannon, Carmel Myers, Ruth Roland, Marion Nixon,

Mae MacAvoy (the latter devotedly attended

by Bobbie Agnew), Chet White, Joe Benjamin, and Joe

Jackson. A beach roast and swimming in the

evening made it a day.

      Helen said that at the opening of Chaplin‘s „Gold Rush“

she almost burst into tears when Charlie served

up the boiled boot in the picture and it wasn‘t because

of Charlie‘s threatening starving to death, but

because it reminded her poignantly of a steak she had

cooked for Bill, her first cooking attempt on their

honeymoon.

(...) Chicago Tribune, July 12, 1925.

      Also in Daily News, New York, July 12, 1925.

„The individual inside the chicken framework“

Editorial content. „CHAPLIN SECRET

      FINALLY SOLVED

      Charlie Plays Part of Chicken in Humorous

      Sequence of ,Gold Rush‘

      ,Is it Charlie Chaplin or a double?‘

      A great deal of speculation has been engendered

among visitors who have witnessed The Gold

Rush, in Grauman‘s Egyptian Theater, as to who plays

the huge chicken in what is described as one

of the funniest scenes in the 10-part comedy drama.

      The scene in question is where Mack Swain,

as Big Jim McKay, is marooned in a cabin by a blizzard,

and imagines his companion, Charlie Chaplin,

is a chicken and seeks to capture him for food. The

apparition of the chicken appears very real

to Swain and to the audience. Chaplin himself modestly

admits that he is the individual inside the

chicken framework responsible for the clever

portrayal.“

     The Gold Rush opens June 26, 1925

      at Grauman‘s Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Bld., Los Angeles.

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