Easy Street Clippings 14/81
Motography, Chicago, January 13, 1917.
Chaplin Cartoon.
Charlie is interested in Poetry
The rose is red,
The violet blue
Mountains are high
And salaries, too!
(...) Interesting items about popular players,
Motion Picture, Feb. 1917
„Nipped in transit“
Editorial content. „Bigger Chaplins Coming
Easy Street is the next of the Charlie Chaplin
comedies, produced under Chaplin‘s
$670,000 contract with the Mutual Film Corporation.
Easy Street will be released on January 27,
six weeks from the date of previous release, and this signalizes
a new departure with regard to Chaplin features, decided
on after a conference between the famous comedian
and President John R. Freuler, as a result of which future Chaplins,
including Easy Street are to be even more pretentious
productions than those already issued.
During rehearsals of Easy Street Mr. Chaplin notified
Mr. Freuler that owing to the large amount of extra
work and the great volume of material involved in the making
of this picture, he favored extension of production time
to six weeks, adding that as all future productions were to be
on a similarly enlarged scale, he felt it advisable to make
the intervening time between releases six weeks instead of
four weeks as hitherto.
While the cost of the productions is largely increased
by this change, their tremendous popularity impressed
Mr. Freuler as warranting the additional expenditure of time
and the schedule was ordered arranged in accordance
with Mr. Chaplin‘s suggestion.
Easy Street will be rushed to completion as soon as
Mr. Chaplin recovers from a slight accident that took place
during the filming of the piece last week. A property
lamppost fell on the comedian, inflicting slight contusions
from which he has now practically recovered.
This play promises to be as funny as The Rink, which
is popularly declared to be one of the most hilarious
comedies Chaplin ever put out. Mr. Chaplin thinks the play will
be funnier than The Rink, since his friends ,out front‘
will have a laugh on him as well as at him. Chaplin‘s encounter
with the lamppost is said to be so funny it ,rocks the walls‘
of the studio, though the encounter probably hurt considerably.
Chaplin upset the lamppost, which fell in his direction.
He tried to elude it but failed. While making a regular ,Hal
Chase slide‘ to get out of the way Chaplin got nipped
in transit and pinned to the studio floor.“
Easy Street Photo.
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