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Harriette Underhill, Motion Picture Classic, N. Y., April 1926.
Harriette Underhill, picture reviewer on the New York Tribune,
visits Baby Peggy and her daddy at the Century
comedy lot. Baby Peggy is to be starred in five reel films.
(...) Exhibitors Herald, April 21, 1923
& More Pathetic Than Funny (...)
The Gold Rush was technically perfect. It had many fine
and subtle points. But if it is comedy, so is The Ten
Commandments. It is infinitely more pathetic than it is funny.
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D.M. Owens, Knoxville, Tennessee.
(...) Motion Picture, June 1926
„During supper we sat next to Mr. Chaplin“
Editorial content. „That Chaplin Complex
By Harriette Underhill
Miss Underhill says the Charlie Chaplin you and
I laugh at is just an inferiority complex.
Chaplin is an egoist, she says, and what he has put
on the screen is the thing he once feared he was, at least in the
eyes of others. Thus his inferiority complex became
a shadow for the whole world to laugh at.
DON QUIXOTE without a windmill: a mute dilettante;
a faun or a sprite; a will o‘ the whip; just a fantastic
cuss; a marionette with Charlie Chaplin on the other end
of the wires; a grown-up Peter Pan, a phantom;
a wraith with a sense of humor; a nomad; Charlie Chaplin,
himself, but a Charlie Chaplin known only
to himself.“ (...)
„During supper we sat next to Mr. Chaplin, and it was
then we determined to ask him about his elusive
character that is known all over the world, yet with whom
none is acquainted.
,You give us no clew,‘ we said. ,Because your ,Wanderer,‘
your ,Prospector,‘ your ,Immigrant,‘ never yet has
spoken a word on the screen. If only you would let him say,
,When I was in England last year,‘ or ,Mother is
waiting for me,‘ ,I was sensitive about these big feet when
I was a kid in school,‘ you would give one something
to work on. But was he ever in England, this nomad of yours?
Was he born here, one hundred per cent, American?
Has he a mother? Does he worry because his feet are large?
Did he ever go to school?‘
Mr. Chaplin shook his head, and then it was he said:
,He is just an inferiority complex.‘ He did not say, ,my own,‘
but what he told us later made us realize that that
was what he meant.“ (...)
One photo. „Charlie Chaplin“
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