The Tramp Clippings 54/63
Sun, New York, December 19, 1915.
ART THEATER, STAUNTON, VA.
J. W. Myrtle, manager of the Art theater, 119 East Main
Street, Staunton, Va., was the first man to build
a picture theater in this city – the President‘s birthplace.
The Art is the most up-to-date moving picture and
vaudeville house in the city. The pictures are changed daily.
(...) Moving Picture World, June 7, 1913
& Posed With Chaplin.
J. W. Myrtle, of the Art theater, Sta(u)nton, Va., sends
in a newspaper advertisement and a card
with a cut showing him posing with Charles Chaplin.
(...) Moving Picture World, April 24, 1915
„Distinctly inferior to Chaplin“
Editorial content. „It may be true that the moving picture
companies have temporarily embarrassed the theatre managers
by offering such large compensation as to make it
difficult to obtain actors; but it is only youth that is wooed away
from the footlights. It is only the pretty face which the
managers of the film plays are seeking, since there is no
artistic difference on the screen between Mary
Pickford and Billie Burke, John Barrymore and Charles
Chaplin. So far as Raymond Hitchcock, Hale
Hamilton and some other comedians that we have seen
are concerned, in the comparative merit of film
comedians they appear distinctly inferior to Chaplin
and his colleagues.“ (...)
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