The Immigrant Clippings 50/72
Motography, Chicago, June 30, 1917
„Takes place in two locations“
Editorial content. „,The Immigrant‘ Arrived June 18
The Mutual Film Corporation released the Mutual-Chaplin
Special, The Immigrant, on June 18.
The entire action of this comedy takes place in two
locations – the steerage of an ocean steamer and
a cheap restaurant patronized by the foreigners in America.
On shipboard Charlie divides his time between
flirting with a pretty immigrant girl, played by Edna Purviance,
and playing cards wit her gambling father. These card
games are literally cut throat affairs, and lucky are the players
if they get through a game without some blood shed.
An old chest is used for a card table and upturned buckets
form the chairs. When Charlie found that the other men
,sat in‘ with revolvers and stilettos, he secured the emergency
fire hatchet and placed it across his knees.
The restaurant set is most realistic with its white-washed
walls and marble topped tables. The walls are decorated
with pencil sketches of the habitues of the place drawn by their
fellow diners, the ceilings beautified by strings of
varicolored tissue paper cut in fantastic shapes, and the doors
hung with curtains of beads and straws. In these tawdry
surroundings Charlie once more meets his sweetheart of the
boat, and together they consume their beans and black
coffee, while Charlie is torn between his los making and his
anxiety as to where and how he is going to secure
the money to pay for what they have eaten.“
Two photos. „That eminent English tragedian, C. Spencer
Chaplin, in his latest drama, ,The Immigrant,‘ with Edna
Purviance, the ravishing blond.“
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