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Boston Post, Boston, Massachusetts, May 8, 1921.
The slum atmosphere was gained by simpler means during
the showing of Chaplin‘s first feature length production
at Trieb‘s theatre, Denver, Colo., garments displayed upon
a clothes line carrying the necessary sign matter.
Chaplin and Jackie Coogan imitators employed in exploitation
are discernible at right center.
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, April 23, 1921.
Trieb‘s Capitan Theatre, Denver, Colorado.
& Chaplin Is Back
To those who say they never come back, let us point
our accusing finger at one Charles Chaplin who
has performed the old trick of the barnstorming hypnotist
who allowed himself to be buried and then dug
up, to the astonishment of all and to the confusing of those
who said he was a dead one, came back to life
and seemed to be as hearty as ever.
(...) THE OBSERVER Brief Chats with you on Interesting Topics
concerning the Screen, Picture-Play, May 1921
& American Who Got Big Concession from Lenine.
Washington B. Vanderlip, mining engineer representing
Pacific coast financier, who recently caused considerable
sensation by obtaining from the Soviet government a lease on mines
and oil fields.
(...) Photo, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Hilo, Hawaii, Jan. 6, 1921
& Lenine Leaving Petrograd Theatre With His Sister
Reports from Russia have told how Lenin, the dictator, and
others high in the Soviet Government live in palaces
formerly used by the Czar and members of the royal family.
This photograph, just received from Russia, shows
Lenin leaving a Petrograd theater with his sister after a matinee
performance. There is no limousine waiting. Caps seem
to be proper headgear for theatergoers.
(...) Photo by Underwood & Underwood, Spokesman-Review,
Spokane, Washington, Jan. 31, 1921.
Same photo in New York Herald, Jan. 23, 1921, and
Iola Daily Register, Jan. 26, 1921 and
Boston Globe, Feb. 12, 1921.
„I always wanted to meet Charlie Chaplin“
Editorial content. „,I Want to Meet Charlie Chaplin,‘
Lenine Tells Vanderlip
Some day Lenine, the Russian, wants to visit America and when
he does so, he is keen on talking with Charlie Chaplin.
The notorious Red leader met Washington D. Vanderlip, American
head of a financial syndicate, with this question:
,When is the American revolution coming?‘
,Not in a thousand years,‘ Mr. Vanderlip retorted, ,and any
Russians you send over there to make a revolution will
be hanged on the nearest lamppost.‘
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Writing in the May issue of Asia, Mr. Vanderlip reports the
following conversation with Lenine:
,I‘m told that every American family has a motor car. Is that
so – every one?‘ asked Trotzky‘s partner.
I came back: ,Everybody – or else an order for one in his
pocket, backed by the country‘s prosperity.‘
,Tell me,‘ he said, slowly and seriously, ,does anything
in Soviet Russia seem good to you?‘
,Yes – many things,‘ I replied. ,And Americans, let me add,
want the best wherever they find it. Whatever is good
in Russia, we‘ll be the first to take. But we‘ve got to be shown.
We‘re from Missouri.‘
At the last word he cocked his head. ,Missouri! The
Missouri River? What‘s that got to do with it?‘
He had pounced on the sole reference he didn‘t know.
I explained the idiom and told him that, if he would
understand us, he ought to know our slang at least as well
as our geography.
On his desk lay a copy of the New York Times, well
thumbed.
,Do you really read it?‘ I asked.
,I read the New York Times, the Chicago American and
the Los Angeles Times regularly,‘ he said.
,Through the New York Times I keep track of the atrocities,
the assassinations, and the new revolutions in Russia.
Otherwise I shouldn‘t know where to find them. The Chicago
American tells me what is going on in the Middle West.
And the Los Angeles Times – oh, by the way, wan‘t the office
of that newspaper wrecked by dynamite some years
before the European war? By friends of the McNamara brothers,
labor agitators?‘
His pronunciation of the Irish name was correct, and so were
his facts. I told him so.
,And that paper is owned by one of the members of your
syndicate, is it not?‘ I assented, and Lenine chuckled.
,Well, now – that is amusing. I find your Mr. Chandler very
refreshing. He writes that I am the bloodiest assassin
the world has ever seen! Now I wonder‘ – his head went on his
hand and an impish look appeared in his eyes, as if he saw
a joke a long way off – ,I wonder if, when this mess is all cleaned
up and I visit Los Angeles on a trip I want to take around
the world – I wonder if you couldn‘t arrange luncheon for me with
Mr. Chandler? And – I say, would you invite Charlie
Chaplin? I‘ve always wanted to meet Charlie Chaplin. Doesn‘t
he, too, live in Los Angeles?‘“
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