Easy Street Clippings 17/81
Variety, New York, February 2, 1917.
Chaplin Cartoon.
CHARLES „SPENCER“ CHAPLIN
Have you tried his new name on your fiddle –
That one he has jammed in the middle?
It may be an ad,
But at that it aint bad –
What that kid‘ll do next is a riddle!
Harry J. Smalley
12077 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill.
(...) Motion Picture, Feb. 1917
& Lone Star Corporation: Official announcement
has been given out calling 20% of outstanding preferred
and all fractional shares at 110 and accrued dividends February
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26.Bookings for Easy Street are reported to be about
the largest of any Chaplin comedy.
(...) Motography, Feb. 4, 1917
„The nose of the comic“
Editorial content. „Easy Street.
In Easy Street Charlie Chaplin supplies the Mutual
with the two reeler that is almost a month late
in release, but, it is said, from the fact that a lamp-post fell
and marred the nose of the comic, forcing him
to ,lay off‘ for two weeks. There is a lamp-post used
in Easy Street, and in the action it is bent and broken so that
the alibi for the delay seems correct. Perhaps for the
first time since he started with Mutual, Chaplin portrays
a policeman. He gets the job and is assigned to
,Easy Street,‘ a narrow thoroughfare, which, for the daily
routine, must be the place where all the ,rough-necks‘
are trained. Leader of them is Eric Campbell, whose burly
bulk aptly leads itself to Chaplin‘s scenario. Before
the new cop‘s advent Eric and his mob have cleaned up other
policemen by the group. So when Charlie appears with
club and shield, it looks like pie to to the chief mauler. Of course,
Charles manages to ,tap‘ Eric on the head with his club
but that makes no more impression than if he had hit him with
a straw. To awe the new cop, Eric bends a lamp-post
in half, but in that endeavor Charlie leaps on his back, shoves
Eric‘s head through the lamp and turns on the gas. Thus
is the king of the roughs arrested. But he does not stay long
in the station house, simply breaking his handcuffs and
starting in search of the new copper. The rough-house that
results on that meeting is pretty nearly ,top class‘ with
anything Charlie has yet affected. The resultant chase and the
several new stunts will be bound to bring the laughter
and the star‘s display of agility and acrobatics approached
some of the Doug Fairbanks‘ pranks. Chaplin has
always been throwing things in his films, but when he ,eases‘
a cook stove out of the window onto the head of his
adversary, on the street below, that pleasant little bouquet
adds a new act to his repertory. Easy Street certainly
has some rough work in it – maybe a bit rougher than the
others – but it is the kind of stuff that Chaplin fans
love. In fact, few who see Easy Street will fail to be furnished
with hearty laughter.“
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