Max Linder Coming Back to Us -- March 5, 2018

Moving Picture World, 23-March-1918

Max Linder was the biggest star in film comedy before Charlie Chaplin. Linder made hundreds of short films for Pathé. A report from the Germans indicated that he had been killed in the Battle of the Aisne. "There is the hope of his many friends that it may be a case of mistaken identity:"
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2014/10/max-linder-reported-killed-october-15.html

Max later phoned from a hospital to report "that he had been only wounded, was recovering, and expected soon to return to the front."
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2014/10/max-linder-denies-he-is-dead-october-16.html

In 1917, Max came to the US to make movies for Essanay:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-am-here-to-make-your-patrons-laugh.html

The movies were not successful, and Max went back to France:
http://bigvriotsquad.blogspot.com/2017/05/linder-ill-stops-work-may-25-2017.html

Max opened a movie theater in Paris, but fought depression.  This article says he was coming back to the US, but he didn't make another movie in the US until 1921.