Max DEARLY (1874-1943). 2 L.A.S., 1915-1932; 4pages in-8 and 2pages in-4 on his letterhead. Bayswater June 6, 1915, to his "old Charlot". He has no news from the Variétés (in whose troupe he played before the war). In France, business is not brilliant. In England, he staged the Moulin Rouge revue at the London Pavillion in "English style". He didn't act in it because he was hired for the duration of a play at the Gaity Theatre: "in London, when a revue or a play works, it lasts, because it goes everywhere". He has his sights set on "a movie business". Some of his comrades have just been called up for military service. He expects to be too. He receives a long letter from Maurice Chevalier, "still a prisoner in Germany"... Neuilly-sur-Seine September 18, 1932, to Albert Carré, who wants to make a film about Robert Macaire. Max Dearly tries to dissuade him, because with him as the star, audiences will expect a comedy film. When he performed the play, a bad one, at the Porte Saint-Martin, he realized that Macaire's "comic success" was due to the "magnificent genius of Frédérick" [Lemaître]. The play failed...