The Tramp Clippings 24/63
Moving Picture World, New York, April 24, 1915.
World War One, French soldiers eating soup on march,
1910s, Bain Collection, Library of Congress
& World War One, Bodies of dead Germans on battle field at
Peronne, 1910s, Bain Collection, Library of Congress
„And becomes a tramp once more“
Editorial content. „,The Tramp‘ (Essanay).
Charles Chaplin, a tramp, sits at the roadside to eat
his noon day repast. While the fastidious Charlie
is polishing his nails another hobo steals his lunch and
leaves a brick in its place. Chaplin makes his meal
on grass, uses his tomato can for a fingerbowl, absent-mindedly
wraps up the brick in his kerchief and walks on.
He comes on the hobo trying to rob a farmer‘s
daughter and promptly taps him on the head with the brick.
He then appropriates the girl‘s money himself, but
gives it back when she weeps. The hobo‘s two companions
rush to the scene, but the brick proves effective
and they take refuge in a river beside which they camped.
Chaplin follows them, but they throw mad at him
and he falls into the camp fire, setting the seat of his trousers
ablaze. The hoboes keep him from the river and with
trousers burning he rushes wildly in search of water, which
he finds after doing considerable damage to his
seating capacity.
As a reward the girl takes him home, where he eats
his dinner from the Mantlepiece. The farmer gives
him a job, but he merely messes up the work, stabbing a farm
hand with a pitchfork, knocking down the farmer
with a sack of grain and spilling bad eggs on a spring poet.
That night he saves the farmer‘s house from
being robbed by the three hoboes by mauling them on the head
with a mallet. In the pursuit, however, he is shot and
wounded by the farmer. He finds that being nursed by the farmer‘s
daughter an agreeable occupation and falls in love with her.
When he finds out she has another sweetheart, however, he picks
up his kerchief and brick and becomes a tramp once more.
Released April 12.“
Redaktioneller Inhalt. Erster Satz: „Charles Chaplin,
ein Tramp, sitzt am Wegrand und verzehrt sein Mittagessen.“
Es folgt eine Beschreibung der Handlung, in welcher
der Tramp sich in eine Farmerstochter verliebt. Letzter Satz:
„Als er aber inne wird, dass sie bereits einen
Geliebten hat, packt er sein Bündel und wird wieder zum
Tramp. Filmstart 12. April.“
