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Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 25, 1935.

Photoplay‘s Memory Album

      edited by Frederick L. Collins

      Hollywood was still an almost unknown name in cinema

circles as late as 1913.“ (...)

      „It was in November of that year, 1913, that an obscure

forty-dollar-a-week English music hall performer, who

had been playing the drunk in Karno‘s A Night in a London Club

at the Empress Theater in Los Angeles, took his battered

derby hat, his baggy trousers, his impossible cane, his unbelievable shoes and his ridiculous moustache out to Mack Sennett‘s

then famous Keystone studio.“

      Three Chaplin photos. „Chaplin, who appeared

anonymously – as did Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle

and the other Keystone favorites – achieved instant

popularity. His amazing silhouette in a poster outside a theater

was all that was needed to fill empty seats. Within four

months he was appearing with Marie Dressler in Tillie‘s Punctured Romance. At the expiration of his year‘s contract with

Sennett, he received and accepted an offer from Essanay

of twelve hundred and fifty dollars a week.“

     Two more Chaplin photos. Charlie‘s first work with Keystone

was opposite Mabel Normand, but they did not team very well.

      While with Essanay Chaplin met his ideal foil – blonde, placid, beautiful Edna Purviance. Charlie Chaplin made her famous.

(...) Photoplay, Nov. 1935

„Chaplin is not a member of the Jewish faith“

Editorial content. „LIGHTS from

      SHADOWLAND

      By LOUIS PEKARSKY

      (Seven Arts Hollywood Correspondent)“ (...)

      „Inside Stuff

      Henry Levy, publicity chief of the American Ort Campaign,

writes from New York to ask whether Paulette Goddard

and Anita Louise are of the Jewish faith. The answer in both

cases, received from Charlie Chaplin‘s Studio and

Warner Bros. Studio, respectively, is ,no‘ . . . And this will

surprise you: the publicity department of Charlie

Chaplin‘s Studio in Hollywood also advises us that Chaplin

is not a member of the Jewish faith. We are quite

certain that this information will be questioned by many who

felt sure that this famous comedian was one of our

own people, but we are simply telling you what we were told

by his own studio . . .“

     Modern Times world premiere will be in New York

      Feb. 5, 1936 at the Rivoli Theatre.

      Rivoli Theatre, Broadway at 49th Street, New York.

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