Easy Street Clippings 42/81
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, February 5, 1917.
Easy Street Scenes
& PIPE DE COP!
Charles Spencer Chaplin
(...) Photo by Mutual Film Corp., Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1917
& Yes, Mah Honey,
Charles Is Funny
and Also Wulgar
,EASY STREET‘
Produced by Mutual.
Directed and practically entirely otherwise monopolized by
THE CAST.
MR. CHARLES CHAPLIN
QUERY: Did you see Charles Chaplin in Easy Street?
Answer: You bet!
Query: D‘ja laff?
Answer: Diddi? Laughed my fool head off!
This conversation might have been
heard on practically any street corner, surface car, or elevated
train yesterday. What, then, was there left for the
merely curious to do but to go and see the picture? Not a thing!
Did we laugh? Did we! We did! And when laughing
hardest we realized that Mr. Chaplin had most decidedly put
one over on the censors, or else, serenely banking
on the probable fact that most of them were persons of family,
launched into vulgarity – funny, but undeniably vulgar just
the same. And Charles has promised to be good!
Well, we laugh at him, so I reckon if anybody‘s to blame
it‘s everybody.
Were a ,legitimate‘ farce or a vaudeville sketch to draw
forth the demonstrations that do „Easy Street,“ the
former would be termed a ,hit‘ and the latter a ,riot.‘ And the
sponsors thereof would settle back, thumbs, in
wes‘cuts, and prepare to inhale the golden atmosphere
attendant on a „long run.“
We will not spoil interest by detailing plot. Suffice to say
that „Easy Street“ is not so easy as it sounds, but that
Mr. Chaplin, having first been saved by grace at the Hope
mission, where, presiding over the organ is Miss Edna
Purviance a la St. Cecilia, overcomes all things.
Certainly if Mr. Charles Spencer Chaplin was ever funny
he is funny in „Easy Street.“
(...) BY MAE TINEE, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1917
„Also Charles Chaplin in Easy Street“
Advertisement. „DREXEL“ (...)
„H. B. WALTHALL in Little Shoes
Also Charles Chaplin in Easy Street“
Drexel Theatre, 858 East 63rd Street, Chicago.
Easy Street is released
by Mutual February 5, 1917.
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