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Show CHAPLAIN'S SHOES j WORTH MILLIONS : Slioes. Buttered, old, misshapen, ! weary, patlietic, flat at heel. Shoes i salvaged from rubbish heaps. ' ! A pair of such shoes have earned I their owner a revenue of millions j of dollars. They are the trademark ,j of Charlie Chaplin, known as the J most prosperous and most popular j comedian., of all time. The screen has sent him into the far corners of the earth to set humanity laughing ij with his eloquent shoes. They are j the same in Charlie's newest comedy ij "The Circus," at the Orpheum theatre, ;i as they were in "The Floorwalker" j and "The Imigrant." The. derby, moustache, cane and ) bagjry trousers also belong inefface-, inefface-, ably to Charlie Chaplin, but the feet, j the shoes are the basic trademark. Physically, Charlie Chaplin's feet are 1 as small and symmetrical as a wo-ij wo-ij man's. But the huge shoes make them I grotesque and. promote the inimitable I waddling that endears the comedian to his boundless public. They epitomize "i the make-up of Chariot. 1 Charlie Chaplin, in character, is 3 the only actor who can be. infallibly j identified by his shoes alone. Pic--j ture the shoes, and they spell the i name. j Indeed, so much fortune has fol-I fol-I lowed the magic shoes that Chaplin 1 has repeatedly had to fight unblush- ing imitators in the courts to de-fend de-fend his common law rights in that : property. His creative genius, with-.; with-.; out which the shoes would be inex-i inex-i pressive enough, needed no protec-3 protec-3 tion; but where -the shoes were ap-1 ap-1 propriated to stimulate possession of j genius by others, it was necessary ij to go to law to halt infringement. 3 Chaplin has spent tens of thousands a of dollars to protect his shoes his symbol. Numbers of persons have j been restrained from copying his j characteristic attire and adopting names that resemble his own. I Usually the suits have appealed for safeguards from motion pictures I and motion picture characters "which ?. will be likely to deceive or have the effect of deceiving any people, thea-3 thea-3 tre-going or general public or mo- tion picture exhibitor into believing I I that in such picture it is the plaintiff ! ; , playing or acting the part, role on character" or "in which the leading or any character performs or uses a , make-up or style of dress, costume or, mannerisms constituting an imitStion of the plaintiff," etc. Valuable shoes, Charlie Chaplin's. To date, Charlie has appeared in j over a million feet of comedy film, ; with, as one wag has said, "A laugh , in every foot.' j Those shoes! |
