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Kitty Kelly, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, December 19, 1914.
Interior of New Essanay Studio, Chicago.
(...) Moving Picture World, July 11, 1914
& CHARLES CHAPLIN JOINS ESSANAY
Greatest Photoplay Comedian Works on New Films
(...) Essanay News, Jan. 2, 1915
& Chaplin Sigs With Essanay
A moment before locking up the forms MOTOGRAPHY
was informed that the Essanay Film Manufacturing
Company of Chicago has secured the signature of Charles
Chaplin, known from coast to coast as „the funny man
of the films,“ to a contract calling for what is alleged to be the
largest salary ever paid a motion picture actor.
(...) Motography, Chicago, Dec. 26, 1914
& Being Funny Is This Man‘s Every-Day Habit
Photo Charles Chaplin
(...) Day Book, Chicago, Jan. 11, 1915
& Chaplin Goes to Essanay (...)
Los Angeles, Dec. 17.
The following important changes are authoritatively
announced for the new year:
Charles Chaplin leaves Keystone for Essanay to direct
comedies and pay leads.
(...) J. C. Jessen, Motion Picture News, Dec. 26, 1914
& Essanay Signs Charles Chaplin
George K. Spoor Authorizes the Announcement That G. M.
Anderson has Signature of Famous Comedian
THE announcement was made in New York on Monday
evening, Dec. 14, by George K. Spoor, president
of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, that Charles
Chaplin, famous screen comedian, had signed with
his company. The information was contained in a telegram
from G. M. Anderson from Niles, Cal.
(...) Moving Picture World, Dec. 26, 1914
„Has been captured by the Essanay“
Editorial content. „FLICKERINGS from FILM LAND
by KITTY KELLY“ (...)
„Essanay Captures Chaplin.
Charles Chaplin, the English comedian with the mustache
whose weird repertoire of gestures and postures
has helped make the Keystone low comedy films famous,
has been captured by the Essanay company.
According to the Chicago company, Chaplin has signed a long
term contract at of of the largest salaries in movie
land. He will come to Chicago next week and take part in a new
series of comedies.“
Redaktioneller Inhalt
Alan Nevins & Henry Steele Commager, The Pocket History
of the United States, New York 1942:
„In the presidential elections of 1916 Wilson was successful,
largely because he had ,kept us out of war.‘“
Am 28. Juli 1914 hat der Erste Weltkrieg begonnen –
„the european war“ wird er oft in amerikanischen Zeitungen
vorerst noch genannt.
