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October 21, 1916
STUDIO DIRECTORY
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Charles Spencer Chaplin, World's Foremost Comedian,
Personally Directs All Scenes of
Mutual Super Comedies
THE Lone Star Studio is the home of Charlie Chaplin and of the world's supercomedies, which are released on the Mutual Program. _ Situate on the fringe of the motion-picture studio area in Hollywood, it occupies a whole block and is probably the most pleasant studio in California.
The world's greatest comedian directs his own productions and conceives the great majority of the situations and stories himself. He is assisted by Vincent Bryan, writer of a thousand lyrics and song hits, and owes much to the technical skill of Ed. Brewer, his mechanical director, George Cleethorpe ("Scotty"), his art director and master of properties, in the productions themselves. Roland Totheroh and "Duke" Zalibra are his cameramen and their splendid photography is handled in the laboratories by Charles Levin, one of the most skilled chemical experts in the profession.
The plant is presided over by Henry -P. Caulfield, the general manager, and his lieutenant, Fred H. Bagley, the former being largely responsible for the warm cooperative spirit which characterizes the entire Chaplin forces.
The company of players Is headed by Miss JSdna Pnrviance, the popular leading-lady, and Erie Campbell, the tbree-hundred-pound comedy-villain whose work has attracted so much attention since the first Chaplin-Mutual story "The Floorwalker" was released.
The remainder of the company is composed Of Leo White, Lloyd Bacon, Albert Austin, ^
Charlotte Mincau, John Rand, James T. Kelly, Frank Coleman and Fred Goodwins, who — — also handles the Press Department. . . The Lone Star plant has witnessed the making of six Mutual Super-comedies up Ito the time of writing, vli., "The Floorwalker," "The Fireman," "The t*aeabond," "One A. M." (the first single-handed two-reel picture ever made), "The Count" and "The Pawnshop."
I Charlie Chaplin's $670,000 contract calls for the release of one two-reel comedy per month and is the biggest individual agreement ever made In the .
annals of the profession of entertainment. Jr
' The phenominal flight' of Chaplin from the ranks of small-time yO*
has been the most romantic event in the whole history of that industry, and until the Mr-distant day when a peer shall be fonncJ, Charles Spencer Chaplin will remain what he has been, for nearly two ' The World's Foremost Co**-'
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