Police Clippings 7/38
Motion Picture News, New York, May 20, 1916.
Bijou Theatre, exterior by day, El Paso, Texas, undated,
Otis A. Aultman Collection, El Paso Public Library
& A THE BIJOU
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
„POLICE,“ CHAPLIN‘S
NEW COMEDY
(...) El Paso Herald, El Paso, Texas, May 30, 1916.
Bijou Theatre, 212-214 South El Paso Street, El Paso
& New Essanay‘s – Charlie Chaplin in „Police“
(...) Photo, Motography, Chicago, June 3, 1916
& A scene from „Police,“ with Charles Chaplin
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, June 3, 1916, detail
& They‘re All Excitedly Calling for the Police
But There is an Alarming Trouble – It‘s Just
the Exhibitors Asking General Film for
Re-Bookings of the Chaplin-Essanay Feature With That Title
IF early reports from General Film Company branch
office managers may be taken as a criterion, the Essanay-Chaplin
comedy feature, „Police!“ is going to attract as much,
if not more, attention and awaken greater interest than the
Essanay-Chaplin „Carmen.“ (...)
As an instance of the desire for „Police!“ shown by exhibitors,
the following copy of a telegram message sent by Manager
John P. McCue of the Bijou Theatre, El Paso, Texas, to the General
Film Company branch manager, D. Prince of Dallas, Texas,
is cited:
„We want exclusive use of this film. ... You may book
us for a two days‘ showing and a return date in two
weeks after first showing, you to fix the price for both exhibitions.“
(...) Motion Picture News, May 27, 1916
„With a free-for-all-fight“
Editorial content. „Prison Parson Patters Plain
Prayers in ,Police‘
But That‘s Only a Small Part of It, for After the
Exhortation the Released Burglar, Charlie Chaplin in Latest
Essanay, Holds the Limelight
,POLICE,‘ Charles Chaplin‘s latest Essanay release,
presents the famous comedian as a released
convict. He is chiefly occupied in dodging policemen.“ (...)
„His burglar friend comes in and with
a free-for-all-fight Chaplin recovers the lady‘s jewels
and returns them to her next day. Then
a policeman whom Chaplin had never done anything to,
except hit on the head while a mallet, chases
him off the steps just when he hoped to win the widow.“
Police is released by Essanay May 27, 1916.
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