The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-03-16
FABULOUS SUM FOR CHAPLIN.
Chief Slapstick Film Comedian Will
Draw Over $4,000 Week.

goings of eminent artists perhaps
will recall, says the New York Sun
various press agents have released
for publication at least one brand
new reel of publicity acquainting an
anxiously waiting world with the, in
a manner of speaking, fact that at
last the So & So Fi!lum company
Inc, have come next door to sewing
up Charlie Chaplin with a contract
the consideration being controlling
interest in the Standard Oil plus the
gross receipts of the new Chaplin
pictures as a bonus.
The only details lacking in the
publicity reels released previous to
yesterday were closeup pictures OF
Charlie signing the contract, with a
final dissolving fadeaway picture of
Charlie and his entire feet secure
ly Grated for shipment to California
to go to work, the hand that grasps
the little bamboo cane also holding
tightly a dinner pail to show that
Artist Chaplin now means business.
There was a typewriter publicity
reel released yesterday, however,
which seemed to deliver the CONNER
eial and aesthetic punch. On the au-
thority of Terry Ramsaye, of the Mu-
tual Film Corporation, Charlie Chap
lin, amid the clicking of cameras and
the cheers of the entire Mutual Of
fees on Twenty-third; street, led by
President Freuler, of the Mutual, un-
ostentatiously signed a contract
which will pay him s500,00O a year
salary, not to mention a check for
S150,O00, which was handed to him
as a bonus before the ink was dry
on his signature.
To be exact, the salary will be
$4,000 a week. Multiplied by fif-
ty-two, his yearly wages will amount
to s52O,000. These details are add
ed because there may be some pre-
else folk who'll be tempted to write
in letters of protest and otherwise
bubble over a stingy little matter of
$4,000 a year.
He's Charlie No Longer.
On an occasion so mOmentOuS
Charlie Chaplin, according to the
publicity reel released by Mr.. RAM
saye, did not do anything so COM
monplace as to "sign" his name to
the contract. He 'inscribed' his
name not once but thrice. Also he
is now, if Mr.. Ramsaye's typewriter
is to be trusted, 'either Charles Chap
lin or Mr.. Chaplin.
One can't very we'll nerve
onself henceforth-not even Win
ME Sheehan, of the Fox COM
pany, who can get Mr.. Chap
Inns autograph on anything but
a contract any time for the asking
to holler, Alta boy, Charlie! How's
every little thing?" across Forty-sec-
ond street, Manhattan, or South
Spring street, Los Angeles, to an
artist with an income of .O2154-
plus--cents a second, or S1.295-
and then some-a minute, or $77.55
an hour! Oy, such headache!
Mo- "Mr. Chaplin solemnly,' y
said the Ramsaye publicity reel yes
terday after a preliminary thousand
feet or so of Introductory typewriting
had been run off, firmly took pen in
hand and inscribed his name at the
bottom of the contract.
'Next to the war in Europe, Mr..
Chaplin" further says Mr.. Ramsaye,
who is no piker, once his typewriter
hits it's stride, "is the most expensive
item in contemporaneous history
Mr.. Ramsaye thereby proving that
he never had to pay a doctors bill
for trying to lick a head waiter at
Jacks.
"Charles Chaplin the Ramsaye
reel continues, "was accompanied by
his brother, Sidney Chaplin zap
plause), who conducts the younger
comedians business transactions,
emoluments and salary negotiations.
The eminent lawyers assembled look
ed over the 10000 word contract "a
voice: "Some look over, Ram
saye!") and announced that every
thing was correct The ponderous
seal was brought forth from vault
by law clerk and placed with pre-
else care on the presidents mahog-
any table.
'sThe lights f1ared up and the office
shimmered with the ripping glare OF
a. studio. Charles Chaplin was
draped over the edge of the table in
one of his characteristic poses (poses
is partly crossed out here) attitudes,
eyeing the proceedings with casual
air of shocking disinterestedness' -
,1. D,,oeo1,o horohv intim atinp that