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Exhibitors Herald, New York, April 16, 1921

Print of „The Kid“ Is

      Stolen From Institution (...)

      St. Louis, MO., June 14. – A print of „The Kid,“ the First

National production featuring Charlie Chaplin, was

stolen from the City Sanitarium recently, by a thief who posed

as Sidney J. Baker, local manager for Associated

First National.

(...) Exhibitors Herald, June 25, 1921

& CHAPLIN FILM GONE;

      CUBAN BROKER HELD

      He Had Offered $1,000 for Reel, $2,000 Below

      Value, Say Police Accusers.

      Henry Pasqual, 30 years old, reported in the theatrical

district to be the foremost motion picture exchange

broker of Havana, Cuba, was locked up in the West Forty-seventh

street police station last night because it was said

he had sought to buy the Charles Chaplin film „The Kid“ for

$1,000. The police say the reel has a market value

of $3,000.

(...) New York Herald, April 31, 1921


„Living at the Hotel America“

Editorial content. „Charge Three With

      Theft of ,The Kid‘

      Police Allege Men Also Had Other Stolen

      Property In Possession (...)

      NEW YORK, April 5. – Charged with having $13,000

worth of stolen motion picture films, three men were

arrested last night in a room of the Hotel America, 155 West

Forty-seventh street.

      The films, the police say, were copies of Charles

Chaplin‘s latest picture, The Kid, worth $3,000,

and The Lost City, valued at $10,000. The police allege

the Chaplin film was stolen Sunday night from

First National at 80 Winchester street, Boston.“ (...)

      „The prisoners said they were Nathan

Nathanson, 23, 814 Hewitt place, Brooklyn; David Bochtman,

35, 82 Tehoma street, the Bronx, and Henry Pasquale,

30, living at the Hotel America. The police assert Pasquale said

he intended showing the Chaplin film at a theatre 

he owns in Havana and was dickering over the price when

when the detectives broke in.“ (...)


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