Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1919 — HUNGER THE MOTIVE OF CHAPLIN’S COMEDY [ARTICLE]

HUNGER THE MOTIVE OF CHAPLIN’S COMEDY

Every Important Character in Charlie’s Inritial Million Dollar Film I Has. an. Appetite for Something,!;. Hunger, the most primitive of all emotions, according to psychologists, is the motive that supplies punch to ir&n,y ofthe important seenes in Charlie Chaplin’s new $1,000,000 comedy, “A Dog’s Life,” which will bo shown at the Princess Treatre on Saturday, February 22. At the opening of the story, Charlie is awakened from his outdoor sleeping quarters in a fence corner by the tantalizing odor of steaming viands offered for sale by a passing hot-dog vender. This leads to a number of BpinteF aJi ch fil (■ the police, who resent 'Charlie’s ambition to eat without paying the usual fee. Later on, Charlie’s faithful dog, famishing for something to test his teeth upon, digs up a well-lined pocketbook that some crooks have buried in the ground. And when Charlie attempts to spend the money that has been thus provided in a nearby case, he meets the big moment of his career, for it brings him. into contact with a beauteous cabaret singer, who is herself starved for love of kindness.