The Cure Clippings 58/70
M. A. L., Guardian, Manchester, England, July 27, 1917.
Frontage of Deansgate Picture House (on right side), Manchester,
England, 1914, Cinema Treasures
& THE DEANSGATE PICTURE-HOUSE
and Cafe Rendezvous. (...)
„THE LOST CHORD.“
Adapted from the Song by Sir Arthur Sullivan,
with Special Instrumental Music.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN in „THE CURE.“
(...) Guardian, July 26, 1917
„It is sheer fun, and has in his hands subtlety and finesse“
Editorial content. „TWO FILMS.
The principal attractions at the Deansgate Picture-house
for the latter part of the week are a Charlie Chaplin
comedy called The Cure and a film version of The Lost Chord.
These two plays are interesting as representing widely
opposite types of the kinema‘s art. In a film portraying Charlie
Chaplin humour is, of course, the one and only aim,
and all other effects are sacrificed to it. Regarded analytically
there does not seem to be very much obvious
comedy in The Cure. The thence is drunkenness, which,
though a useful stand-by for the low-class comedian,
is an unpleasant way of rousing laughter. The scene is laid
in a sanatorium for dipsomaniacs, The inhabitants
pf the place include a disagreeably amorous gentleman with
a gouty foot and a brutal Turkish bath attendant.
On the face of it the whole atmosphere suggests the gloom
of a Gissing novel, but as we see it in the film,
with Chaplin waddling up the stairs and running like a caged
squirrel round and round the revolving door, it is sheer
fun, and has in his hands subtlety and finesse.
The adaption of Sir Arthur Sullivan‘s song is cast
in a very heavy mould, and belongs to the type
of kinema play that public taste has now rather outgrown.“ (...)
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