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Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Cal., December 28, 1930.
Los Angeles Theatre, main foyer, Los Angeles, undated,
losangelestheatre.com
& Los Angeles Theatre, auditorium with balcony, Los Angeles
(...) Motion Picture Herald, April 11, 1931
& Los Angeles Theatre, walnut-paneled basement lounge,
Los Angles, undated, martinturnbull.com
& Los Angeles Theatre, periscoped screen, Los Angeles,
undated, Big Orange Landmarks
& Los Angeles Theatre, intermediate lounge stairs,
Los Angeles, undated, Big Orange Landmarks
& Los Angeles Theatre, interior mural and other decorative work,
Los Angeles, undated, Big Orange Landmarks
& View of the miniature screen which enables patrons
to see in the lounge the picture simultaneously projected in the
theatre auditorium.
(...) International Projectionist, March 1932
& Gumbiner Independent Theatre Opens January 1
(Special to the Herald-World) Los Angeles, Dec. 18. – „With no affiliations of any kind and exhibiting pictures chosen
for merit alone,“ the Los Angeles theatre, owned and operated
as an independent house by H. L. Gumbiner,
will open its doors on or about January 1, showing
Charles Chaplin‘s „City Lights.“
(...) Exhibitors Herald-World, Dec. 20, 1930
& Gumbiner to Have
Deluxe Los Angeles
House Ready Jan. 1“ (...)
„City Lights,“ Charlie Chaplin‘s new film, will be the
opening picture.
(...) Exhibitors Herald-World, Dec. 27, 1930
& Three-Way Projection
At Gumbiner Theatre
Los Angeles – The new Los Angeles, costing $2,000,000,
will be opened by H. L. Gumbiner, Jan. 1.
Gumbiner, owner of the Tower, will be owner of the
new house seating 2,500. Various innovations, such as six
seats to a row, a club lounge with a dance floor, a cafe,
a cosmetic room with attendants, and children‘s play rooms
and nurseries, will be features.
One of the unusual points will be simultaneous projection
in the lounge and children‘s rooms at the same time
that films are being shown on the main theatre screen.
„City Lights,“ Charlie Chaplin‘s new film, will open.
S. Charles Lee, architect, was the designer.
(...) Motion Picture News, Dec. 27, 1930
& Former Favorite Enacts Role in Chaplin Picture
For several years a favorite, Harry Myers returns to the
screen after a long absence in „City Lights,“ Charlie
Chaplin‘s new vehicle which will have its world premiere
coincident with the debut of the new Los Angeles
Theater early in January.
Appearing in one of the important parts in the film
as an eccentric millionaire, Myers is said to do
some of his finest work. The actor first gained note a number
of seasons past in the title role of „The Connecticut
Yankee.“
In anticipation of the premiere, the Los Angeles is now
being rushed to completion. It is situated on Broadway,
between Sixth and Seventh streets.
(...) Los Angeles Times, Dec. 20, 1930
„More often have but two or three roles that matter to the plot“
Editorial content. „FEW CHARACTERS SEEN
IN CHAPLIN‘S NEW FILM
The fewer characters there are appearing in the story
of a film production, the more interesting the story
can become, is an assertion made by Charlie Chaplin, whose
most recent vehicle, City Lights, which opens in January
at the new Los Angeles Theater, boasts but three important
roles.
,Highly dramatic stories,‘ says Chaplin, ,more often have
but two or three roles that matter to the plot, and it is
my belief that the same is true of comedy. The fewer characters
there are, the more interest centers on the central figure,
bringing his every action into sharp relief and adding much to the
effectiveness of the emotions he is trying to portray.‘
In City Lights, as in a majority of the vehicles in which the
comedian has appeared, including The Circus and
The Gold Rush, the small cast is made up of two men and a girl.
As usual, Chaplin appears in his perennial characterization
of the tramp, tragically elegant in tattered coat, elongated shoes,
cane and worn spats and derby. Virginia Cherrill, beautiful
newcomer to the films who was discovered by Chaplin, makes her debut in the role of the girl – a blind flower vender – while
Harry Myers, completing the trio of characterizations important
to the story, appears as an eccentric millionaire.“
The world premiere of City Lights takes place in Los Angeles
January 30, 1931 at the Los Angeles Theatre.
Los Angeles Theatre, 615 South Broadway (between
6th and 7th Streets), Los Angeles.
City Lights opens in New York February 6, 1931
at the Cohan Theatre.
George M. Cohan Theatre, 1482 Broadway (between
42nd and 43rd Streets), New York.
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