Easy Street Clippings 74/81
Screamer, Los Angeles, California, June 2, 1917.
A day‘s diary of a modern photo-comedian
(...) Comic strip, Motion Picture, May 1917
& Kono Toraichi on the „City Lights“ set, Chaplin Studio,
Los Angeles, 1929, Karl H. Klein Family
„Fifteen dollars fine“
Editorial content. „Guilty For H. C. CHAPLIN
„I come to speak guilty for Hon. C. Chaplin,“ said T. Kono,
who is private pilot of a large automobile for one C.
Chaplin, employed in a local studio. At least the Examiner
tells this story on Charlie:
Last week Charlie was pinched. He was due before
Police Judge Chesbro.
„Charlie Chaplin, come to court, come to court,“
shouted the bailiff yesterday.
„Hon. C. Chaplin here in me,“ squaked a voice
from the rear of the room and T. Kono,
spic and span in his livery, walked forward.
„I come to speak guilty for Hon. C. Chaplin,“ said the Jap.
„The Hon. C. Chaplin muchly desired me, his
worthless driver of machine, to say his Hon. head aches and
he begs pardon of Most Hon. Mister Judge.“
„Fifteen dollars fine,“ said the court and T. Kono jumped
quickly while the clink of falling gold and silver was
heard. T. Kono had dropped the $15 in gold and silver into
the cuspidor.
He searched diligently, but all that he could
recover was $14.75. Somebody had the
other quarter. T. Kono had to dig it up himself.“
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