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Mayme Ober Peak, Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., Dec. 10, 1930.

Lee Miller (photographer), Charles Chaplin, Life, 1930s, detail

& City Lights themes

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

& „City Lights“ Music Row

                                                 Paris, Aug. 6.

      Charlie Chaplin is indirectly party to a suit brought

by the music publishing house Salabert against

United Artists here. Salabert owns the music rights to Raquel

Meller‘s hit, „La Violetterra,“ authorized by Jose Padilla,

and the tune was inserted in the musical adaption of „City Lights.“

Ground of the suit is allegation that the billing says „Music by

Charlie Chaplin,“ and United Artists refused to alter it.

(...) Variety, Aug. 16, 1932

& Chaplin Fiddling

                                          Hollywood, Dec. 9.

      Entire musical score for „City Lights,“ Charlie Chaplin‘s

picture, is being written by Chaplin, turned composer and showing

signs.

      Chaplin is reported walking around with a violin

and breaking in on all kinds of meetings to find out „what do you

think of this tune.“

(...) Variety, Dec. 10, 1930

„He is as cross as a bear“

Editorial content. „REEL LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD

      By MAYME OBER PEAK“ (...)

      „Doug‘s New Picture“ (...)

      „While his best friend, Doug Fairbanks, is making

up on the golf course for time lost in sound stages,

Charlie Chaplin is tearing his hair in dark projection rooms

completing the musical score of City Lights to open

New Years. The picture is run from 9 a. m. until any old

time that night, and when the comedian staggers

out for occasional meals they say he is as cross as a bear.

      Chaplin wrote the melodies himself. Collaborating

with him on the scoring is Arthur Johnson, Irving Berlin‘s

right-hand man.“

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