The Rink Clippings 25/55
Variety, New York, December 13, 1916.
The Rink Scenes
„There is plenty of fun provided by him on the rollers“
Editorial content. „At the Rink.
There was a time when Charlie Chaplin delighted America
by ,beaning‘ others with a brick and sending pictures
fans into an uproar while he gently passed into dreamland
when he was the recipient of one of those things. Then
Charlie started on a crusade of massaging his fellows‘ faces
with soft pies, and that was funnier than the brick
heaving. And now he has added to his repertoire, various other
culinary articles with equal, if not added, laughter
producing results. Put him in a kitchen and Charlie will do
the rest. We see the noted mime as a waiter in the
beginning of At the Rink, the current Chaplin release (Mutual),
and he starts enough hokum to give the skating rink
portion a good entry. Some of the New Yorkers expected that
an ice rink was the stage for the versatile Charlie, but
as these pictures are made on the Coast, that is impossible,
for they never saw such a thing out there. There is plenty
of fun provided by him on the rollers, and he displayed a surprising
cleverness on them. A number of funny falls occurred,
as was looked for, with Charlie outshining and outwitting any
of the others on the floor. When he couldn‘t trip the ,big
guy,‘ who was attempting to cop his girl, he used his old standby,
the bamboo cane. All in all At the Rink averages up well
with the best he has done for the Mutual.“
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