Easy Street Clippings 11/81
Reel Life, Mutual Film Magazine, New York, January 13, 1917.
& Chaplin Cartoon.
If Charlie Chaplin would give an Old Hat that looks like
the Original as a Souvenir in memory of Himself to everybody
that has written for one.
„I have exactly 10002031 ready for the mail Sir!“
(...) Motion Picture, Feb. 1917
„For the benefit of the Red Cross“
Advertisement/Editorial content. „CHARLIE CHAPLIN –
,EASY STREET‘
The famous comedian appears for
the first time as a policeman
–
Charlie, the Outcast ... Charlie Chaplin
Edna, the Beautiful Organist ... Edna Purviance
Eric, the Bully ... Eric Campbell
–
,EASY STREET,‘ the new Chaplin-Mutual comedy to be
released January 22 is considered by Charlie Chaplin
to be one of the best things he has done, since it affords him
opportunity to ,make love and fight,‘ which elements,
in a recent magazine article, the comedian declared to be the
best basis of all good dramatic construction.
Chaplin‘s love affair in Easy Street – a play that deals with
the seamy side of life in the poorer quarter of a large
city – involves the pretty organist of an East Side mission,
Edna Purviance, of course. When the comedian,
garbed as a down-and-out tramp, had run the gamut of human
experience in dives and free lunch emporiums of New
York, he turned, as do so many thousands, to the mission, where
by good management or a specially pathetic appeal, the
desperate may obtain a slice of bread and oleomargarine and
a cup of coffee, together with an offer of salvation.“ (...)
„And after waiting patiently at the gate of opportunity
Charlie got his chance. Bill Campbell, drunkard and
bully, whose pet diversion was ,cleaning out‘ the mission
and ,beating up‘ the preacher, approached his
periodical task with enthusiasm, only to be met by an athletic
young convert in ragged raiment but filled with the
resolve of high purpose, whose hands and feet all seemed
to strike and kick simultaneously and before whose
vigorous onslaughts Mr. Campbell went down to the oblivion
of the whipped bully.“ (...)
„This is the first in all his stage career that Chaplin has
ever appeared as a policeman, though he has been
busy fighting police officers ever since he made his first bow
on the screen. Once during his early engagements
on the speaking stage Chaplin played the police officer
in Box & Cox and he declares to this day he was
the hit of the piece. The uniform he wears in Easy Street
is to be raffled off at a bazaar for the benefit of the
Red Cross. It cost $125 and the bazaar promoters propose
to start it at $200 with Chaplin‘s club, helmet, belt
and big shoes.“
Werbung/Redaktioneller Inhalt
