The Cure Clippings 26/70
Variety, New York, April 13, 1917.
The Cure Poster
„A whole meal of laughs“
Editorial content. „The Cure.
If there should be any impression that Charlie Chaplin
has slipped the slightest in his ability to comically
mime in the films, the once over of his latest effort, The Cure
(Mutual), should certainly ,cure‘ any such idea. It has
been stated before that succeeding pictures, which Chaplin
has been making for Mutual for the past ten months,
were better than the predecessors. That seems surely true
about his latest effort, to be released on Monday next,
and it may be that Chaplin fans will vote The Cure the best
of the Mutuals so far. It has been a bit over two months
since the last previous Chaplin (Easy Street) was released and
therefore the new one is considerably late. A reason
for that probably is the rather pretentious hotel setting employed,
which looked good enough to have taken plenty of time
for construction. This set depicts the marble exterior and the
interior of a hotel health resort and on the terrace
at the foot of the steps is the spring of curative waters. This spring
is shown as a hole about a yard in circumference, nearly
filled to the brim, and circular benches surround it, whereon sit
,patients‘ taking the water. From the moment Chaplin
arrives on the scene, presumably ,half pickled,‘ he uncovers
a series of new stunts, in which Vincent Bryan (said
to be directing for Chaplin) may have helped. Anyhow, it looked
like Bryan‘s style. Charlie for the first time sports a straw
hat, also a ,Piccadilly‘ collar – but does not attempt to be dressy
or change his general contour of make up. His trunk
arrives and when opened discloses enough booze to stock
a young saloon. In fact, nothing else is contained
therein save a toothbrush (which he uses on his nails) and his
derby hat, but that he does not use further. When the
chief of the resort discovers the stock of fire water he orders
the whole collection disposed of. Forthwith an attendant
heaves the collection out of the window and all of the bottles fall
into the spring. The result is that the whole establishment
goes on an unwitting spree. Aside from that there are a number
of other very funny incidents, the funniest being Charlie‘s
antics in the steam and massage rooms of the resort. The chief
rubber is built on proportions calculated to even threw
a scare into some of our best wrestling mammoths. Chief foil
and assistant in Chaplin‘s fun making is Eric Campbell,
who, if anything, is better than in Easy Street. Campbell plays
a fierce old party with the gout and Chaplin devises
a number of ways of falling on the affected foot that must bring
the laughter. The Cure is a whole meal of laughs, not
merely giggles, and ought to again emphasize the fact that
Charlie is in a class by himself.“
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