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Sally Benson & John Decker, Picture Play, N. Y., Nov. 1925.

The Gold Rush Scene

& Strand Theatre, auditorium looking towards stage with curtain,

Calgary, Canada, undated, Cinema Treasures

& A Happy New Year

      IT WILL BE A HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR ALL WHO SEE

      Today and Tomorrow

      Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush

Strand

(...) Daily Herald, Calgary, Dec. 31, 1925

      Strand Theatre, 119 8th Avenue Southeast, Calgary, Canada.

„The picture lacks pep“

Editorial content. „The Screen in Review

      A critical summary of the latest photoplays.

      By Sally Benson

      Caricatures by John Decker

      IF there weren‘t any celebrities the rest of us couldn‘t

sit around complaining that they weren‘t as good as they used

to be.“ (...)

      „When I went to see Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush,

I went remembering him in The Kid, Shoulder Arms,

The Pilgrim, and many others, and just as old men will say

that the girls aren‘t so pretty as they used to be

or the songs not half so tuneful, I will say that The Gold Rush

isn‘t nearly so funny.“ (...)

      „The picture lacks pep. If this weren‘t such a nice

magazine, I might be even more Anglo–saxon and say what

I really mean. Mr. Chaplin used to be a funny man

first and an artist unintentionally, now he is an artist on purpose

and a funny man only when it‘s absolutely necessary.“ (...)

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