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New York Herald, New York, February 7, 1921.

Strand Theatre, exterior by day, marquee BILLIE BOYD IN „DRESS PARADE“ BESSIE LOVE, New York, 1928, Cinema Treasures

& THEY ALL CAME TO SEE „THE DEVIL“

      Part of the crowd that came to the New York Strand to see

George Arliss in this new production

(...) Photo, Moving Picture World, Feb. 5, 1921

„Throngs who seemed ravenous for their Chaplin fare“

Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin

      Funnier Than Ever In Own New Film

      Produces ,The Kid‘ After Year‘s

      Absence From Screen

      In his year of absence from the screen Charlie Chaplin

must have read at least one book. That was probably

Sentimental Tommy, for Chaplin‘s latest comedy, The Kid,

at the Strand yesterday called to mind Sir James

Barrie‘s masterpiece of the precocious tenement youngster,

with a similar commingling of sentiment, humor and

pathos, except that in this instance Chaplin acted as both father

and mother to the waif he found, in spite of all

the strenuous efforts of the police to stop him.“ (...)

      „This first product from the comedy king

in a long, long tine, which packed the Strand yesterday

in record fashion with throngs who seemed

ravenous for their Chaplin fare, seemed intended to make

up in length for the aching void that had once been

regularly filled by Chaplin, for its six reels were three times

as long as his ordinary comedies, and the comic

scenes were approximately four times as funny.“ (...)

     Strand Theatre, Broadway at 47th Street, New York.

      The Kid is pre-released by First National

      in New York February 7, 1921.

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