The Kid   1920   1922   next   previous

The Kid Clippings 180/268

Agnes Smith, Picture-Play, New York, April 1921.

Agnes Smith

(...) Ball Photo, Film Daily Year Book 1926

& Agnes Smith

(...) Photo, Photoplay, March 1927

& The delicious humor and

whimsical pathos of the scenes between Chaplin and Jack

Coogan in „The Kid“ would do credit to Barrie.

(...) The Kid Still, Picture-Play, April 1921

& By the way, I have talked with a man who saw

„The Kid,“ Charlie Chaplin‘s masterpiece.

And this amateur critic said that it was wonderful.

I also talked with Charlie. He smiled when

he spoke of it.

(...) The Screen in Review Wherein you will find,

for your guidance, a frank and fair comment upon recent

films By Agnes Smith, Picture-Play, March 1921

„The women cried harder than they laughed“

Editorial content. „The Screen in Review

      Our critic, quite unrestrained, tells you about the best,

      and some of the worst productions of the month.

      By Agnes Smith

      THE chief difficulty of the screen critic in reviewing the

average output of the month is to conceal a certain

lofty disdain – a disdain of the stars who will insist on doing

over and over again like tiresome trained dogs;

a disdain of the directors who seem bent on spending

much money and little thought; and a disdain

of the authors who, for the sake of large checks, allow

themselves to be taken in on the old shell game

on ,What the public wants.‘

      In writing a review of The Kid, which I mentioned

prophetically in the last paragraph of last month‘s

Screen in Review, I wrote two stories about the art of Charles

Chaplin and then tore up both of them. Or rather,

so plastered were they with heated enthusiasm that they

blew themselves up. In the case of a picture like

The Kid, the reviewer has to guard against, not disdain, but

indiscriminate laudation.“ (...)

      „The Kid has a plot, and some of its incidents are

so serious that Chaplin himself was a little doubtful

about the success of the picture. In fact, he showed it before

an audience of women in Salt Lake City just to try

it out, and the women cried harder than they laughed –

which was puzzling to a comedian.“ (...)

Redaktioneller Inhalt

The Kid   1920   1922   next   previous