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of total rentals. After all costs had been recouped, Charlie and First National were to divide the profits equally.
On finishing his last Mutual, "The Adventurer," Chaplin took a much-needed vacation in Hawaii. He was accompanied by his secretary, Tom Harrington, Edna Purviance, and Rob Wagner, a professor of Art and Greek and author of "Film Folk." Wagner hoped to do a biography of Chaplin during the trip but had to be content with a few articles. Chaplin's vacation was rather brief. A little golf at which he was mediocre, a few plunges into the surf at Waikiki, and he had had enough. He was restless to get back to work.
On his return to Hollywood in October, he and his brother broke ground for a new studio at the corner of La Brea and Sunset Boulevard. The five-acre lot on which it was located was then on the outskirts of Hollywood and more than a mile beyond the studio section. Today the site straddles the center of Hollywood, a block from Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Purchased for $34,000, it is now worth over a million. Its La Brea Avenue front is camouflaged as a row of English cottages. A residence and tennis court face Sunset Boulevard. The studio itself faces south on De Longpre Avenue. For some years the stage was an open-air platform with girders supporting diffusers. Roofed over in the twenties, it is today a modern, sound-proof studio. All Chaplin's pictures since 1918 have been made here.
As a precaution against the swarm of imitators and the flood of revivals, his First National films carry his signature on the opening title with the statement, "None genuine without this signature." This opening title is usually decorated with a drawing. The subtitles have a chain border with the First National trade-mark below.
Chaplin announced that the new series would concentrate on character. They show a marked advance in every