The Rink Clippings 1/55
New York Clipper, New York, December 6, 1916.
Two girls in roller skates wear „Don‘t Be A Scrab“ sashes,
New York, 1916, nycvintage.com
& IF YOU WANT TO KEEP UP YOUR SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS
LEARN TO SKATE Exclusive hotels and apartments are
giving skating parties – clubs are being formed – most graceful and healthful sport – taking society by storm – beginners
taught free – form your own club and we will extend special
courtesies. Broadway Rink, 1037 South Broadway.
2-5 p. m., 7:30-10 p. m. daily, except Monday evening, which
is reserved for an exclusive club.
(...) Los Angeles Herald, April 4, 1914
& King Tango I. Assassinated in Los Angeles
,Who killed King Tango?‘
,I,‘ said the roller skate. ,I killed King Tango.‘
There is more truth than poetry in the above paraphrase
of Mother Goose, for the roller skating craze has
invaded the smart set of the city with terrific speed, and the
question now to the minds of many is ,Where can I
learn to skate? Where can I take the kiddies for an afternoon
of healthful pleasure?‘ There is but one answer.
The Broadway Skating Rink at 1037 South Broadway fills the bill.
It has been reopened under new management, whose
one ideal will be to make it strictly a family institution. A place
where all may come, with no fear of entering anything
but a refined, wholesome atmosphere. Where the morals of your
children are guarded as carefully as in the home. It has
been redecorated and renovated. It is a new building, with 20,000
feet of skating surfacing, and there is a brass band in
attendance every night. Competent instructors and attendants,
who are picked for their high moral character, will offer
every aid to the beginner, while the more intricate steps will
be taught at a small nominal cost.
Skating is acknowledged a healthful and exhilarating
exercise. Doctors recommend it. Society is crazy over
it. Get in the swim. Rink open every afternoon and evening
except Monday nights, when it is leased to the
Engstrum club, an organization made up of members of the
smarter set of the more exclusive hotels and
apartment houses.
(...) Los Angeles Herald, April 4, 1914
Broadway Skating Rink, 1037 South Broadway, Los Angeles.
& Chaplin‘s next is a roller rink story and the whole
company had to become expert on the art of retaining their
equilibrium.
(...) Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 3, 1916
& Charlie Chaplin will be seen this
month in another Mutual-Chaplin laugh provoker. This comedy
will be called The Rink. It will mark his eighth
production for Mutual release under his $670,000 contract.
(...) Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, Dec. 4, 1916
„Charlie Chaplin‘s next bid for popularity“
Editorial content. „CHAPLIN ON SKATES NEXT
Charlie Chaplin‘s next bid for popularity will be made
in a two reeler called The Rink. Nat Goodwin
appeared in a farce twenty-five years ago, entitled The Skating
Rink. The roller skating craze was just beginning
to become a popular fad at the time.“
Redaktioneller Inhalt
Alan Nevins & Henry Steele Commager, The Pocket History
of the United States, New York 1942: „In the presidential elections
of 1916 Wilson was successful, largely because he had ,kept
us out of war.‘“
He Kept Us out of War. That‘s his campaign slogan.
The fighting in Europe dominates the campaign. Woodrow Wilson campaigns for re-election on a pledge of continued neutrality
in the World War One
Election night is on November 7, 1916. The electoral vote
is one of the closest in American history – with 266 votes needed
to win, Wilson takes 30 states for 277 electoral votes, while
Hughes wins 18 states and 254 electoral votes.
After the sinking of seven U.S. merchant ships by submarines
and the publication of the Zimmerman telegram, Wilson
calls for war on Germany, which the U.S. Congress declares
on April 6, 1917.
Am 28. Juli 1914 hat der Erste Weltkrieg begonnen –
„the european war“ wird er oft in amerikanischen Zeitungen
vorerst noch genannt. Am 7. November 1916 gewinnt
US-Präsident Wilson die Wiederwahl. Sein Slogan –
He kept us out of war – ist erfolgreich. Am 6. April 1917 ruft
Wilson aber zum Krieg gegen Deutschland auf.
