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Emma-Lindsay Squier, Picture-Play, New York, January 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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