One A. M. Clippings 23/56
Moving Picture World, New York, August 12, 1916.
One A. M. Scenes
„Well known“
Editorial content. „Chaplin in ,One A. M.‘
Charles Chaplin, in his latest comedy entitled One A. M.,
for release August 7, presents on the screen a large
number of things that he did not learn from a correspondence
school.
It is rather well known that Mr. Chaplin is a young person
of the most extreme sobriety, but One A. M. leads one
to the belief that some time in his life Mr. Chaplin has observed somebody who drank.
But we can lay aside the question of where Mr. Chaplin
got his dramatic material; the certainty is that he got it.
It may be left to the judgement of the fastidious public whether
or not Mr. Chaplin knows about those weird fantasies
and grotesque happenings that sleep in bottles and awake
in glasses.
The writer has it on the authority of a number of persons
who ought to know that Mr. Chaplin can delineate
with accuracy that rare and exotic state of mind and body
known to science as ,the stew‘ and variously otherwise
termed ,a skate,‘ ,spiffed,‘ ,pickled,‘ ,hardboiled,‘ ,ossifled,‘
,ori-eyed,‘ ,comfusticated‘ or ,dazed.‘ Those familiar
with this glorified condition offer every assurance that Mr.
Chaplin is histrionically correct. The writer, while
naturally conservative, is inclined to accept the opinion
of experts.
The story of One A. M., which deals with Chaplin‘s
adventures in the home of a bachelor friend whose hobby
is collecting stuffed animals, in itself is excruciatingly
funny, but when combined with the art of the comedy star
it becomes a continuous laugh.“
One A. M. Scene.
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