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Variety, New York, December 5, 1919.

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& Charlie Cuts Film to Play with Baby

(...) Washington Times, July 10, 1919

& Chaplin Signs Juvenile

      Charlie Chaplin recently signed up Jack Coogan, Jr.,

to appear with him in comedies for one year.

(...) Exhibitors Herald and Motography, Aug. 23, 1919

& Signed With Chaplin – Beulah Bains, a southern college girl,

is about the happiest young lady in Los Angeles today,

being the recipient a a volume of congratulations upon her

recent good fortune. The work of Miss Bains in Charlie

Chaplin‘s current production is so exceptionally promising that

the famous Charles has signed her up for a long period.

(...) Camera! Los Angeles, Nov. 22, 1919

& Charlie Chaplin‘s next laugh generator bears the title

of „Paradise Alley“ which will recall a popular song

of an aging generation.It‘s only the working title but plenty good

enough to wear out in the world. The world‘s chief

funmaker, working in a way peculiarly his own, now has on hand

a total of one picture completed and untitled – a condition

technically known as ,on the shelf‘ – and two pictures in a state

of semi-completion, one of them „Paradise Alley,“ at the

time of this chronicling, so that when he gets these all finished

up he will have two more to do on that much exploited

million dollar contract. Then he will be able to make pictured

for the United Artists – the Big Four.

(...) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Dec. 6, 1919

„A five-reeler, called The Kid“

Editorial content. „CHAPLIN‘S FIRST NATIONAL‘S.

      Charlie Chaplin has several more pictures to deliver to the

First National before the expiration of his contract with

them, which calls for an advance of $125,000 per negative.

Recently Chaplin asked that the advance be increased

to $225,000, basing this contention on the allegation that the

cost of production had increased to that extent. The

First National is understood to have replied they could not see

their way clear to do this.

      It is said that Chaplin has already completed a five-reeler,

called The Kid, which he is holding as the first release

he will make through the ,Big Four,‘ and which, it is claimed,

is by far the biggest and best picture he has ever made.“

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