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New York Times, New York, December 8, 1919.

Strand Theatre, auditorium, New York

(...) Photoplay, April 1915

& The stage set for a performance in the Strand

Theatre at Broadway and 47th Street,

New York, 1916, Museum of the City of New York, detail

& CHAPLIN APPEARS

      IN SHAKY FLIVVER

      Film Comedian Changes Style of Stunts

      in „A Day‘s Pleasure.“

      WILL ROGERS IS CO-STAR

      Makes a Good Show of Teeth in „Jubilo,“ His Latest

      Goldwyn Photo Play.

      The Strand this week offers a double feature bill,

consisting of Charles Chaplin in „A Day‘s Pleasure“

and Will Rogers in a long feature, and certainly it is equivalent

to several months of pleasure to view Chaplin‘s

latest antics, though the natural style of drollery he now

follows is so far from his old methods that not once

is there registered the dull, sickening thud of a custard pie.

      Chaplin not only shakes as well as ever seized

by the neck, but this time he has a ricketty automobile that

shakes even better than he does. That machine

is the Chaplin among flivvers. Chaplin takes his screen

family for a hilarious ride in it – this time there are

two small Chaplins – and winds up with a sail on an excursion

steamship, during which occurs a remarkable battle

between two seasick men – Chaplin and a husky – that

makes the spectator sick – from laughter.

      Will Rogers makes a good show of teeth in „Jubilo,“

his latest Goldwyn photoplay, but even that

is overshadowed by the smile of Chaplin, who can leave

more of his personality behind on a programme

in two reels than most players can deposit in a five reel

feature.“ (...)

(...) New York Herald, Dec. 8, 1919

„Biff-bang slap-stick“

Editorial content. „THE SCREEN“ (...)

      „Charlie Chaplin is screamingly funny in his latest picture,

A Day‘s Pleasure, at the Strand, when he tries in vain

to solve the mysteries of a collapsible deck chair. He is also

funny in many little bits of pantomime and burlesque,

in which he is inimitable. But most of the time he depends

for comedy upon seasickness, a Ford car, and

biff-bang slap-stick, with which he is little, if any, funnier

than many other screen comedians.“ (...)

      Strand Theatre, B‘way at 47th St., New York.

      A Day‘s Pleasure is pre-released by First National

      December 7, 1919.

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