Ma Hogan's New Boarder Explained

Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.^[5] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."^[6]

It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.^[7]

Cast

• C. Evans
• B Gilbert
• Q Cross
• E. Vockler

Reception

Theatre managers offered to "supply cotton and buttons free to all patrons who damage them" during screenings of the film."^[8]

The Motion Picture News said that Charles Evans "gave a really clever impersonation of Charles Chaplin" but that "the production was too long to be anything more than ordinary."^[9]

Notes and References

1. "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
2. Web site: National Archives of Australia. Bound printed copy of Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia (one of two copies). 145. NAA: A11636, 4/1.
3. News: AMUSEMENT. . . NSW . 10 August 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: Advertising. . . NSW . 10 August 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
5. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
6. News: AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN. . . Sydney . 27 June 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 16 . National Library of Australia.
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=gkC-Eo7GsxMC&dq=%22ma%20hogan's%20new%20boarder%22&pg=PA14 Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978
8. News: Advertising. . . Sydney . 27 June 1915 . 1 September 2013 . 6 . National Library of Australia.
9. https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew132unse#page/1446/mode/2up/search/australia "Film News from Foreign Parts"