Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-02-20 | Page 1 | Chaplin Dramatically Presses Suit Against Charles Amador

Chaplin lin Dramatically Presses PressesS S Suit Against Charles Amador LOS ANGELES Feb 20 Sur Sur Survivors o of the Aplin Chaplin flInt film comedy fire and philosophy fest Lest which signalized tho the opening here i yester yesterday ay of Charles Spencer Chaplin's Chaplins Chap Chap- lin's lins suit to bar bat Charles Charles' Amador from using stage j jnames i j jnames names or makeup ventured back I I into superior court today for the second reel ot of the celluloid comedians comedians' comedians comedians' comedians comedians' come come- duel cluel court I Chaplain furnished the philosophy philosophy phy at yesterdays yesterday's session a film featuring Amador under the screen I name o of Charley Aplin Aphin furnished I Ithe the fire I With scholarly precision and many an explanatory wave o of the hand Chaplin set forth his philosophy philosophy philosophy phy o of humor and particularly his I philosophic conception of ot the inner meaning o of the trousers dented derby trick mustache and I I willowy cane with which film tans fans the world over are familiar 1 HIS HIS' INSPIRATION I j Relating how v he lie happened to to toi gather the derby the cane and the Iother Iother I Iother other component parts larts o of his characterizatiOn characterization char char- charI I into a unit which he called his satire on humanity this his j symbol of the s comic serio-comic dignity j I of mankind Chaplin said saidy Mv My y Inspiration came from the whole pageantry of life me I got ot my walk alk from irom an old London cab er The one-foot one glide was an Inspiration In- In of the moment One part partI I N k of the character was vas inspired by I I an old fellow trouper o of mine He HeI I had flat feet I Pointing out that in suing Amador Ama Ama- dor dol ho lie sought to prevent the imitation imi- imi i I tation o of of my complete character- character rather than the wearing I lo of certain garments he added I is a philosophy o of characterization char char- which is not concerned 1 with clothing FILM IS HOT ONE i The fire broke out wh n court adjourned to a temporary projecting projecting projecting project project- ing room where shere an Amador film was being run off to to demonstrate wherein Charlie CharIle Aplin en encroached encroached encroached en- en on the celluloid prerogatives tives of Charlie Chaplin Somehow Some Some- I how lOW the film n caught fire and in in inthe the resultant shower shover of ot flaming flamin bits of or celluloid through which at- at i torne s 's witnesses and spectators rushed unhurt but pell pell-mell tor the door nothing was sas lacking to tomake tomake tomake make a complete picture e e. e ept elt the custard pie fire fhe department which directors customarily call in to quench slapstick conflagrations After the tho fire had flickered out and order had been restored there was still time for a little bore nore testimony testimony tes tes- tes- tes before the final fadeout of ot the tir first t days day's session Chaplins Chaplin's attorneys attorneys' left with witha a a. promise to to bring five more witnesses ses into l' l court today J