His New Job Clippings 19/38
Moving Picture World, New York, February 6, 1915.
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G.M. Anderson (Essanay)
(...) Motion Picture, June 1915, detail
„The guiding hand of Mack Sennett“
Editorial content. „A Real Film A B C
Anderson, Bushman and Chaplin of the Essanay Company
Constitute an Unusual Photoplay Combination
THE accompanying photograph is one that is bound
to interest those who follow the photoplay.“ (...)
Photo. „Three Essanay Stars (from Left to Right): Francis X. Bushman, Charles Chaplin, G. M. Anderson.“ (...)
„Charles M. Chaplin has not been long on the screen, but
his popularity as a comedian has been so great that
it seems a perfectly safe statement to remark that to–day
he is drawing a larger salary than any man working before the
camera, and that if that sum is exceeded by any sister
actor there is probably but one. Francis X. Bushman...“ (...)
„Charles Chaplin is the surprise of the screen.
Many players have come from the legitimate stage and
made quick and remarkable success before the camera, but
he seems to lead them all. His position in the comedy
field is proof that talent will come to the top despite adverse
circumstances. It has been said that in his childhood
he had no advantages, not even schooling: that his mother died
when he was very young, and that he and his brother
Sidney, four years older, were taken on the road by an acrobatic
company. He was still a boy when with his brother he came
to New York. His experiences here are fresh in his mind. He is said
to be about twenty-five years old, which fact makes his
success all the more remarkable. There are those who will
await with considerable curiosity to see if the popularity
is maintained – in other words. to know whether it is himself who
is entirely responsible for the great name he has built up as
a comedian or how much of that is due to the guiding hand of Mack Sennett. Mr. Chaplin has been credited with the possession
of an abundance of originality. Certainly in action there is no one
on the screen like him. The public never knows what goes
on when the camera crank is not turning. Mr. Chaplin‘s friends
aver that he is resourceful, chock full of ideas, many
of which come to the surface at the psychological moment,
which, after all, is proof of genius.
One good test of a screen player‘s popularity is the demand
for prints in which he is to appear. An exhibitor remarked
to the writer a day or two ago that he knew of one exchange
that had put in an order for five Chaplin prints where
it had formerly been using one of the company. This is a reflection
of the box office side of Chaplin. Personally he is said
to be extremely modest, retiring, declining to assume that he has
accomplished much worth making a fuss about – which
is, after all, one of the best things that can be said about anybody
and one of the real proofs of greatness.“
Chaplin‘s mother dies 1928.
Chaplin comes to New York 1910 with twenty-one.
His half-brother Sidney is not with him.
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