CHAPLIN'S PAST
OLD PICTURES RECALL EARLY DAYS To celebrate Mr Charles Chaplin’s fiftieth birthday, except from some of his early films were shown on the television screen in London. His first appearance was in his music-hall attire, and it was not til] his second picture for the Keystone Company in May, 1914, ‘ Mabel’s Strange Predicament,’ that he appeared in his own familiar, dress. The pictures were amazing, not so much from the technical point of view as from the absurd stories and the crudity of the plots, and the artists were still taking a bow before a curtain at the end of the play, as in a theatre performance.
After ‘His Prehistoric Past,’ in which Charlie appeared as a cave-man dressed! in skins, but crowned with a bowler, the audience was brought to ‘ The Champion,’ made in 1915 for Essanay, in which the little man knocked everyone down and began to be himself. The pathos of his performance was better shown in a later film,
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Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 5
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165CHAPLIN'S PAST Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 5
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