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Variety, New York, August 13, 1930.

Leicester Square „Fugitive“ Display.

      With the ban against use of electricity for advertising signs still

on in England, London‘s Leicester Square Theatre still

managed to create an attractive front-of-the-house display for

that West End cinema‘s engagement of RKO Radio‘s

„The Fugitive.“ Proof of the effectiveness may be seen in the crowds lined up on both sides of the box-office.

(...) Photo, Showmen's Trade Review, June 5, 1948

& Charles Chaplin and Winston Churchill on the

„City Lights“ set, Los Angeles, 1929

& Charles Chaplin and company on location for „City

Lights,“ Chaplin‘s latest picture. Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie‘s

best pal, is present, grin and all, just looking on.

(...) Photo, HOT from HOLLYWOOD, Screenland, Aug. 1930

& Leicester Sq. Theatre, exterior by night,

sign Douglas Fairbanks „The Sun Never Sets“ Basil

Rathbone, London, 1939, Cinema Treasures

& Chaplin Visits Gandhi, London, 1931,

British Pathé, newsreel

& Leicester Square Theatre, auditorium, London, prior to the

internal modernisation of 1968, Over The Footlights

& London crowds greeting Chaplin, 1931

(...) Theodore Huff, Charlie Chaplin, New York 1951

& London Show Window

      Obtained by United

      London – United Artists has leased the Buchanan

as a London show window for its product. It will open in a few

weeks with Chaplin‘s „City Lights.“

(...) Motion Picture News, Oct. 11, 1930

& Chaplin Wants 4 Millions

      From England – or Else

      London – Sales quota of $4,000,000 is said to have been

set on „City Lights“ by Charles Chaplin. Thus, the long

wait of the comedian between pictures will cost England exactly

$2,000,000 more than his previous picture which is plenty

expensive, in the believe of local exhibitors.

(...) Motion Picture News, Sept. 20, 1930

& Chaplin May Appear in Person With His Film

      to Open New U. A., London

                                                 London, Sept. 9.

      Joseph Schenck is reported arranging for the Charlie

Chaplin picture, „City Lights,“ to be world premiered

with personal appearance by Chaplin at the United Artists

theatre here.

      United Artists theatre was formerly the Buchanan,

in Leicester Square. It is to open late in October.

(...) Variety, Sept. 10, 1930

& Confident

      Charlie Chaplin intends to hold the fort in his dogged

championing of silent pictures. And he is so sure

of his ability to do so that he has ordered United Artists to stop

City Lights pending the screening of it. Charlie, so the

story goes, believes that the picture will command much higher

rentals than it has been sold at to date, hence the

desist order.

(...) Motion Picture News, Aug. 30, 1930

„The expected new Chaplin picture“

Editorial content. „Picture Producer‘s

      New Leicester Sq.

                                         London, Aug. 12.

      New Leicester Square theatre, formerly part-owned

by Jack Buchanan, becomes the Allied Artists‘

west end showcase, opening in October with the expected

new Chaplin picture.

      Allied Artists had been negotiating with Walter Gibbons

and Walter Bentley for the Leicester Sq., and signed the formal

contracts over the week end, according to inside sources.“

      Leicester Square Theatre, Coventry Street, London.

      City Lights has its London premiere at the Dominion Feb. 27, 1931.

      Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London.

      Allied Artists is United Artists in England.

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