A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment at the desk of the Tramp`s boss shows that he actually is reading a Sunday paper (the giveaway is a classical Sunday comics page at the back of the paper). That`s right: he has his staff working regular shifts on a Sunday.
Given Chaplin's slowness to give up silent moviemaking, there is a certain irony (probably intended) in the fact that the first time his voice was heard in filmnote Modern prints of The Circus (1928) include a song by him during the opening credits, but this was inserted into the film much later. was in the course of him singing in gibberish, and using his body to convey meaning. It was in a sense his farewell to the dying art form.
