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Grace Kingsley, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Calif., Feb. 5, 1917.
Easy Street Scenes
& Edna Purviance
(...) Photo, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 5, 1917
„There were the usual shouts of laughter“
Editorial content. „Garrick.
Not in vain has labored Charlie Chaplin, our biggest and
best screen comedian. Behold in support of this
testimony Easy Street, which is something new under the
Cooper-Hewitts. Easy Street is the flower of the
Chaplin apprenticeship; it is Chaplin minus the gaucherie
and crudeness of many of his former efforts;
without the monotony of the repetition of tricks; without the
obvious effort after fun, which has marred some
of his pictures. It is spontaneous, bubbling, rib-tickling,
unctuous; and yet the story has such skillful
blending of pathetic shadings as to make the thing seem
at moments a startling cross section of real life.
There was just a bit of a quaver in the laugh with which the
admirers greeted Charlie when he was discovered
at the beginning of the picture rolled up, a pathetic bit of him
on driftwood, under the sheltering eve of a slum
mission.
There were the usual shouts of laughter when Charlie put
the bully to sleep by jamming the lamp-post over
the giant‘s head and turning on the gas; and when Charlie,
falling through a skylight, sits down on a dope fiend‘s
hypodermic needle and gets a ,shot‘ which enables him to clean
out a whole band of anarchists. And certainly he never
put over a more subtle, yet effective piece of comedy than that
in the last reel when all the toughs of his beat are
seen reformed and polite, entering the little Mission Church.“
Garrick Theatre, Broadway at 8th, Los Angeles.
Easy Street is released
by Mutual February 5, 1917.
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