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Emma-Lindsay Squier, Picture-Play, New York, January 1921.
Emma-Lindsay Squier, on a vacation trip in the Yosemite
(...) Photo, Picture-Play, Nov. 1920
& CHAPLIN WORKING
(...) Film Capital Production Notes, Camera!
Los Angeles, Jan. 15, 1921
„The inspiration of Chaplin‘s latest masterpiece“
Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin‘s Partner
It‘s five-year-old Jackie Coogan, and next time Charlie
goes to the moon he‘s going along.
By Emma-Lindsay Squier
IT was on the stage of the Los Angeles Orpheum
Theater that I first saw ,The Kid,‘ a tiny tot of four
years, about half as a minute, in Annette Kellermann‘s act,
giving an imitation of David Warfield. Then he did
a ,rube‘ dance with such childish abandon that his little act
stopped the show, and the rafters fairly shook with
the thunderous applause of the audience.
Seated just in front of me was Charlie Chaplin, leaning
out into the aisle, his mouth open with delighted
amazement, utterly oblivious to the fact that people were
watching him as well as the small performer
on the stage.
,That kid‘s immense!‘ I heard him say to Sid Grauman
beside him. ,He‘s wonderful! I‘d like to use him
in a picture.‘
And so it was that night that the inspiration of Chaplin‘s
latest masterpiece, The Kid, was born with little Jack
Coogan as the ideal figure for the title role of the picture.“ (...)
Three photos.
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