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Motion Picture News, New York, September 8, 1923.

Edwin T. Schallert, dramatic editor of the Los Angeles Times

(...) Variety, Aug. 19, 1925, detail

& „A Woman of Paris“

A Drama of Fate featuring Edna Purviance

Written and Directed by

Charles Chaplin

„There is no doubt that the public will fight their way

in to see this production – and they will not be disappointed,“

says Martin J. Quigley, in Exhibitors Herald

(...) Film Daily, Nov. 9, 1923

& „A Woman of Paris“

A Drama of Fate featuring Edna Purviance

Written and Directed by

Charles Chaplin

„The Public Will Fight To See This“

(...) Motion Picture News, Nov. 17, 1923

„I have tried to get away from the old system of doing things“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Feature Is Highly Praised

      Smashes Sacred Film Conventions with

      A Woman of Paris, Says Critic

      Under the headline ,Chaplin Smashes Sacred Film

Conventions‘ the motion picture reviewer for the preview section

of the Los Angeles Times gives the highest of praise

to Charles Chaplin‘s seven reel feature photodrama, A Woman

of Paris, the great comedian‘s first serious contribution

to the screen, which is scheduled for premier showing in New

York in October, prior to release through United Artists

Corporation.

      A Woman of Paris was written and directed by Mr. Charles

Chaplin and features Edna Purviance and Adolphe

Menjou in the leading roles. In the course of his lengthy review

the Times‘ critic says:

      ,Of late there has been considerable concern about

among producers over the fact that instead of developing along

original lines the photoplays have been becoming more

and more the victim of technical conventions of production and

presentation. There has been a growing sameness

in the manner of handling situations; originality has been, in

most instances, lacking in the way of putting over

scenes, emotions, plot developments and characters.

      ,Now comes something different; now comes

a photoplay which smashes the old conventions and – what

is more important – gives something better in place

of what is smashed. The photoplay is A Woman of Paris, and

the man who wrote and directed it is Charles Chaplin.

      ,,I have tried to get away from the old system of doing things,‘

said Mr. Chaplin when he and I and a handful of people

sat in the Chaplin projection room after A Woman of Paris had

been run off.

      ,,You haven‘t blazed a new trail; you have paved

a new boulevard,‘ I replied. And there you have A Woman

of Paris reviewed in one sentence.

      ,People who have not made a study of the technicalities

of photoplay production and plot building will probably

not realize why they find this picture so refreshing. They will

probably say that it moves along quickly – that there

isn‘t a slow movement in the whole film. But those who study

screen plays will find it packed with innovations.

      ,The story? It is simple and direct and has been told many

times. It is the story of a girl from a small town in France

who misunderstands the man whom she is to marry. She goes

to Paris and becomes the mistress of the richest and

gayest bachelor of the capital. Then she meets her old sweetheart,

who has become an artist. The old love revives, and there

is some shooting.

      ,Simple? Yes, but not too simple to hold one breathless

with interest. And that is because of the way the story

is told. And it is treatment, not material, which makes it a classic.“

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