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Harriette Underhill, Motion Picture Classic, N. Y., April 1926.

Georgia Hale

(...) Motion Picture Classic, April 1926, portrait

& No other figure is so well known throughout the entire world.

Sketch by K. R. Chamberlain

(...) Chaplin – the Genius By Don Ryan,

Picture-Play, March 1926

& That pathetic dinner party of The Gold Rush

which the guests forget to attend. Psychologically, laughter

is close to tears as Chaplin knows so well.

(...) Photoplay, June 1928

„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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