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Motion Picture News, New York, February 17, 1923.

Charles Chaplin in Studio, in the background

Rollie Totheroh filming Edna Purviance, Los Angeles, 1919,

The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin

& Charles Chaplin directing „A Woman of Paris“ (then also

called „Destiny“ or „Public Opinion“) with Rollie

Totheroh, Jack Wilson and Harry D‘Arrast, Los Angeles 1923

& Edna Purviance has had the unusual faculty

of endurance in a profession where success blooms

swiftly and fades even as it blooms. And after

seeing her, you readily understand how her calm, unruffled

personality would make a superb background

for an artist as undoubtedly temperamental as Chaplin.

(...) In Placid Mold By Clyde Stuart, Motion Picture,

Feb. 1922, detail

„Marks a new departure“

Editorial content. „Edna Purviance Star in

      Chaplin Production

      Following the receipt of its copyright registration in play

form, Charles Chaplin yesterday announced that the title of his

first serious motion picture would be Public Opinion.

      The production which is already well under way and which

has temporarily been called Destiny, will be in ten reels

and though written and directed by Chaplin himself, it will star

Edna Purviance in the leading role and will be released

through United Artists.

      Public Opinion marks a new departure.“ (...)

      „In speaking of the picture Chaplin says:

      ,There will be no armies, no huge sets and no elaborate

mechanical effects, but through it all will run a poignant

note of human suffering, joy, tragedy and humor. There have

been a number of queries as to whether I intend to act

in the picture or not. I am not going to act in it, not from any

policy, but because in the story as I truthfully see it,

there is no place for my character.‘

      Playing opposite Edna Purviance, who is being launched

on her starring career, is Adolphe Menjou.“ (...)

      The definite title of Chaplin‘s film is A Woman of Paris

      (in France L'Opinion publique).

    

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