The L'Anse sentinel., 1916-03-11
CHAPTER v.

CHAPTER ".
The end Of it was that Chaplin was
finally allowed to direct his own scenarios.
No American picture director understood
his peculiar style Of comedy well enough
to work out the stuff. In another chapter
win tell about Chaplin's work and his
Chaplin's first big hit a director Of his
own work was dough and Dynamite" !"
This was started a. part Of the scenario
afterward known a. the "Pangs OF Love-.
In his rather aimless way OF directing
without any scenario. Chaplin and Mr..
Conklin began working up play. in which
both he and Conklin were in love with
the landlady of boarding house and stuck
hatpins into each other through . curtain
to interrupt one another's courtship. They
decided that they both ought to be work
men of some kind and decided upon being
bakers. Az part of the play they worked
up scene in bake shop. This turned
ltout to- be 80 funny that they finally
changed the whole idea and made two dill
ferent scenarios.
AZ a director-actor at the Keystone,
Chaplin had the reputation Of being the
most generous star in the movie business:
Every comedian was allowed to grab all
the laughs he could get.
Becomes the Rage.
His work began making q tremendous
impression. Everyone began talking about
the new funny man. People who never
went to the movies before were drawn by
the accounts Of the new comedian.
took notice, and Chaplin got several big
offers. One from the Essanay was so big
that he did not feel justified in refusing.
When his contract expired with the Key
stone, he changed companies. He went
with the understanding that he was to
have full swing in his work; direct al his
own scenarios and DO pretty much ~ he
pleased.
The first of the Essanay work was done
in Chicago. His first Essanay film was
His New Job" After that he put on
a two-reeler, His Night Out" Chaplin
then insisted on moving back to California.
The picture conditions didn't suit him in
the middle West On returning to the
coast, he went to the Essanay studio at
Niles. !.
In separate chapter there win be an
account OF his adventures at this rural
studio. He produced 'The Tramp" at
Niles This is regarded in some ways
as the most remarkable step forward
ever made in moving-picture comedy.
by this time a perfect storm of fame
had struck Chaplin. To tell the. truth, It
seemed to scare more than anything else.
He used to say to his intimate friends:
u Z
just a little nickel comedian trying to
make people laugh. They act a. though l
were the king of England" Chaplin even
to this day il much alarmed over being %
famous. He says his reputation can't
last.
But ne began to suffer the penalties Of
the great. He was asked to speak at ban
quets; to lead parades; TO referee prize
fights. When the baseball season opened.
it was announced that Chaplin would
throw the first bah.
Charles Chicago Censor.
Charlie was pursued like a wounded hare
by all kinds Of people with all kinds Of
business propositions. IL half the life in
surance agents who were on his trail could
be gathered into an army, there wouldn't
be any danger Of war with Germany.
Real estate agents wanted him to buy
stock in their discoveries. About a mil
lion people wrote him letters. Many Of
them were mash letters. One young lady
in Chicago undertook the Job of censoring
all his work. Every day Of her life she
wrote Chaplin a letter, commenting crit
ically on some of his latest films. Some
times she complimented them; sometimes
she roasted them untenderly.
tenn a. chicken. When his friends came
to zee him at his hotel they found him sit-
| ting helpiessly behind a pile Of letters.
| Finally some Of his friends prevailed ON
him to hire secretary. Wherefore 4 -
we're young man with glasses now opens
| Charles mash letters.
| One sort Of pest scared Chaplin to
death. This was the auto agent. They
wanted him to buy their cars; to be pho
dorsements Of their cars. But Charlie
was adamsnt. He wouldn't listen to any
| Of them. He. told them he had pn aversipn
| Ito. cers. on principle and when ho retired
he was going to have an old white horss
and buggy and ranch. The truth IL,
Charlie had once been bitten by: the an
| tomobile bug.
While he was with the keystone. Chap
| lin fell for the Establishments Of an auto
agent and came out one day nervously
| driving q runabcut. He had some weird
| experiences with that car. He never
could learn how the thing worked. He
| knew how It started, but he never could
remember-at least in times Of emergency
what you did when you wanted the
thing to stop.
Auto Advice at s7s Per Lesson.
One day while he was gsrading the
| TO the intersection Of two crowded streets.
| The traffic cop majcstically gave the sis.
| nal for the car to stop. Charlie reached
for the thingamajig and pulled the wrong
| lever. The car bounded blithely forward.
| The cop waved his club and that was all
| he did before the auto struck him amid
| ships and mopped up the floor with him.
They picked up the fragments Of the ofi-
| Ger Of the law. They also picked up Chap
! IN. and took him to the police station,
! where they advised him to learn how TO
manage his car and charged him ~ for
"a Ancshss time, Charlie was driving IN
| Though The big front gate at the Key
| stone and got too near one 81 the posts.
| ne had been used 70 sailing small boats.
When : sma1l boat gsts too near the wharf
| the thing 70 do = to drop the tiller and
fand od hy pnshirg sGainst the wharf.
Charlie thought this opsht TO apply
| equally well TO . car. So WHEN be saW
Sc NJ eoins te bump ths gate, s. dropped
| the steeriug wheel and tried 10 pus6 "a
! from the post. The results were sonsa-
tional aud startlins. AncthsT time.
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