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Grace Kingsley, New Movie, New York, February 1931.

CharleS Chaplin in „City Lights,“

Los Angeles (COMING)

(...) Photo, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 1931

& HOLLYWOOD IN PERSON

      BY MOLLIE MERRICK

      Since the days the silent screen took voice and

an industry was thrown into chaos thereby, there has not

been such excitement in Hollywood as exists today.

      Charlie Chaplin opening „cold“ Friday with a silent picture

at $10 the head, will, for all time, determine in the

minds of producers, the old question, „Are talkies a failure?“

      The secrecy of the tryouts of this picture is

unprecedented in cinema history. Nobody, save those

of the small staff of workers who have been with

Chaplin through many years of triumphs, know anything

about „City Lights.“ (...)

      A world of children who have squirmed through talkies

will be in their element once again. And this will

probably start a regime for picture making among independents

and even in larger studios, for child attendance alone.

Pictures calculated to bring the small folks back into the theater

once again: for it is from children‘s indifference to talk

that motion-picture producers have suffered most heavily

during the era of sound films.

(...) Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 1931

„He merely kids them“

Editorial content. „Grace Kingsley

      How the Stars Bring Up Their Children

      Here you can learn exactly how the Hollywood kiddies

      spend their days.

      Charlie Chaplin‘s Children

      Neither Charlie Chaplin nor Lita Gray Chaplin, strangely

enough, wants their children to become actors!“ (...)

      „When Charlie wants to punish his children – which

is almost never – he merely kids them. But this method is said

to have an immediate effect.“

     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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