The Tramp Clippings 26/63
Clarence J. Caine, Motography, Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 1915.
CHAPLIN MASQUERADE ARREST.
Los Angeles, May 12.
E. T. Montgomery was arrested here this week,
charged with masquerading as Charlie Chaplin.
(...) Variety, May 14, 1915
& TOO MANY „CHAPLINS“
It‘s very likely that the reissue of Charles Chaplin prints
by the Keystone and the confusion caused by
the weekly bookings of Chaplins in New York will result
in the Essanay giving the picture comedian a rest
as far as keeping up its present deluge of Chaplins and feature
him in several six-Part productions.
(...) Variety, May 14, 1915
„He appears as a knight of the road“
Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin in The Tramp
Reviewed by Clarence J. Caine
,THE TRAMP,‘ which was released by the
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
on April 12, is a typical Charlie Chaplin picture.
That statement tells about all that is needed to convince
the great majority of exhibitors that the picture(s)
is a money-getter. Those who have run Chaplin pictures,
or who have watched their competitors run them.
know that they are of the ,hold-‘em-out‘ variety, for this comedian
is, today, one of the most talked of players on the screen.
If one attempts to tell why Chaplin ,gets over‘ his comedy
with such success, he is tackling more than a man‘s
size job – it is ever so much easier to simply say that Chaplin
was as funny as usual and let it go at that.
In The Tramp he appears as a knight of the road who
secures employment on a farm, after saving the
farmer‘s daughter from other tramps who attempt to take some
money from her.“ (...)
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