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Grace Kingsley, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., May 4, 1930.

City Lights Sets, Los Angeles, 1929, Karl H. Klein Family

& „Lobby Laugh No. 11“

      By Dick Kirschbaum

      MADAM I‘LL HAVE TO ASK YOU TO REFRAIN FROM

TALKING SO LOUD, YOU ANNOY (...)

      Anything Can Happen These Days!

(...) Cartoon, Motion Picture News, Oct. 12, 1929

& Popularity of stars like Keaton, Chaney,

and Laurel and Hardy abroad is the explanation for their

anxiety to become proficient in other tongues

besides English.

      The succumbing of Chaney to sound pictures leaves

but one star unconverted – namely, Charlie Chaplin.

Charlie is determined to be silent in his next picture, „City

Lights,“ and it will be a great test of his popularity.

      Only one star in the whole firmament can afford this risk,

it is believed – and that star is Chaplin. What he will

be able to do after that is very much of a question. Many

believe that he will be able to talk successfully,

if he cares to.

      Really, Chaplin‘s voice is very pleasant, even while

marked strongly with an English accent. He can

use it in the drawing-room, when he is amusing his friends,

with great versatility.

      The last of the silent camp may yet give in.

(...) Hollywood High Lights By Edwin and Elza Schallert,

Picture Play, May 1930

& What will be the public‘s response to Charlie Chaplin‘s

determined silence in „City Lights.“ – N. Y. Post.

(...) They say that – Quaint Quips Lifted and Sifted, Motion

Picture News, May 10, 1930

„Sometimes I suspect Sue of stage-managing the whole thing“

Editorial content. „STELLA HITHERS and Thithers

      By Grace Kingsley“ (...)

      „SUE CAROL and Nick Stuart came in as we were

chatting, bringing with them Sue‘s old school

chum, Virginia Cherrill, Charlie Chaplin‘s leading lady.

Virginia was moaning a bit because Charlie

doesn‘t want her play in any other pictures before City Lights

is released, and she, being like a young race-horse,

new in the business, naturally is anxious to be off. But she

thoroughly appreciates the break Charlie is giving

her, all the same.

      Sue was indirectly responsible for Virginia‘s getting into

pictures, as it was while Virginia was in the west

visiting Sue that she met Charlie. But sometimes I suspect Sue

of stage-managing the whole thing. She is clever

enough to have done it.

      We noticed that Virginia was wearing a very short bob,

and she said it was all Charlie‘s fault.

      ,He asked me one day why I didn‘t have my hair cut – said

it was getting too long,‘ Virginia explained. ,I said I didn‘t

have time. Whereupon he grabbed the prop man and brought

him over, making him cut my hair. I was scared to death

about how it would look; but it seems that in the dear dead

past said prop man had been a barber and he hadn‘t

forgotten his art, as it turned out.‘“

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