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Charlie Chaplin
July 6, 1925

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Cover Story Excerpt:
All the notables for miles around had gathered in the Egyptian Theatre to see Charles S. Chaplin in The Gold Rush—the picture 9,000 feet long which has taken him two years to make and of which he had remarked: "This is the picture I want to be remembered by, heedless of the fact that his press agent was listening. On the screen, a shadow flickered—a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet.....Read the full story