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tramp picks his pocket of sausages, Charlie extracts with his cane the stolen pocketbook.
THE JITNEY ELOPEMENT
Released by Essanay, April i, 1915. (2 reels)
Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Edna Purviance, Leo White (the count), Lloyd Bacon.
Edna, a wealthy heiress, drops a note begging to be saved from the Count de Ha Ha to whom her father has betrothed her. Charlie, finding it, impersonates the count and receives a royal welcome until the real count appears. The couple escape and flee in a jitney (an old model T Ford). After a wild chase over rough roads and through mud puddles, Charlie backs his car suddenly and the pursuer's auto is pushed off a pier into the water. Then the couple race for a parson. Outstanding scenes: Charlie's table antics; Charlie drops a nickel in the "slot" to start the flivver.
THE TRAMP
Released by Essanay, April 11, 1915. (2 reels)
Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Edna Purviance (farmer's daughter), Bud Jamison (tramp), Leo White (tramp), Paddy McGuire (farm hand), Lloyd Bacon (lover), Billy Armstrong (poet?).
See p. 47, 49, 50, 95
BY THE SEA
Released by Essanay, April 29, 1915. (1 reel)
Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong, Bud Jamison.
A short film evidently improvised at the seashore — a minor Essanay not without a certain impromptu charm. On a windy day by the sea, the string attached to Charlie's hat becomes tangled with belligerent Billy's resulting in a comic tussle by the two. Then Charlie tries to flirt with Edna, the wife of the giant Bud, and with another girl who turns out to be Billy's. As both couples threaten Charlie, the bench, holding all five, collapses. Outstanding scenes: Charlie tosses a banana skin in the air, bats at it with the wrong foot, slips on the skin; he amuses Edna by moving his hat with the concealed string.
WORK
Released by Essanay, June 21, 1915. (2 reels)
Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh. With Charles Insley (boss), Edna Purviance (maid), Billy Armstrong (husband), Marta Golden (wife), Leo White (secret lover), Paddy McGuire. (Recently revived as The Paperhanger.)
Charlie, as a paperhanger's assistant, pulls a heavy wagon loaded with paraphernalia through traffic and up hill. In a hectic household he spills a pail of paste on his