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Herbert Howe, Picture-Play, New York, December 1920.

The four of United Artists who make 1920‘s

Christmas a merry one for both public and their releasing

organization. Why waste words in naming them

(...) Motion Picture News, Dec. 25, 1920.

      Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas

      Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith.

& Why the Industry and Its People

      Should Be Merry and Happy

      By HIRAM ABRAMS, President

      United Artists Corporation

(...) Exhibitors Herald, Dec. 25, 1920.

      D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Hiram Abrams,

      Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks.

& Hiram Abrams – „He Stuck to a Policy“

      A Glance at the 1921 Horoscope for United Artists Sees

      Cheer Aplenty for the Stars‘ Own Organization

      „Maybe a Chaplin Soon“

(...) Motion Picture News, Dec. 25, 1920

„A Chaplinesque talent for mimicry“

Editorial content. „What‘s the Matter with Chaplin?

      Why has the world‘s greatest entertainer stopped

      producing? Here is the answer, told by a man

      who knows Chaplin, and who gives us an unusually

      intimate pen picture of the great film comedian

      By Herbert Howe

      IT seems to be the fashion just now to take a furtive

boot at Charlie Chaplin where he is most sensitive.

Slapstick artists of the press have been banging him about

the ears  with the hot-air bladder. Their evangelical

purpose is to chastise him for his sins of omission and

to remind him that this is no time to be doing a Rip

Van Winkle.“ (...)

      „Chaplin has had family claims, too, but they haven‘t

been the sort to give him recreation. He was about

to apply the shears to his picture, The Kid, which has required

a year to make, when blooey! – Madame Chaplin flung

another press explosive. She attempted to attach the picture

as common property. We are not interested in the

justice or injustice of her claims. We only wish that Ma and

Pa Chaplin would quit squabbling over The Kid and

give us the custody.“ (...)

      „Chaplin found zest in his work by the discovery and

development of Jack Coogan, a genius of five years,

who has a Chaplinesque talent for mimicry. So great was

Charlie‘s delight in the response he obtained

from the child that he built the entire story about him,

as indicated by the title.“ (...)

      Five photos.

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