City Lights 1930 1931 1932 next previous
City Lights Clippings 193/387
Variety, New York, February 4, 1931.
Los Angeles Theatre, exterior by day, marquee Chaplin „City Lights“ Playing, Los Angeles, 1931, detail
& ANSWERING the question, „When my hair has turned
to silver, will you love me just the same?“ crowds
followed Charlie Chaplin yesterday when he arrived here for
premiere of new silent picture, „City Lights.“ (...) At the
left, Chaplin is turning the tables on a roomful of photographers.
(...) Photo, Daily News, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1931
& Los Angeles Theatre, curtain, Los Angeles, undated,
California State Library, Mott-Merge Collection
& Los Angeles Theatre, hand-sewn curtain, Los Angeles,
undated, Big Orange Landmarks
„Traversing a jammed lane of peasants“
Editorial content. „Colony Celebs Off L. A. Openings
After Battling Mob at Chaplin Premiere.
Hollywood, Feb. 3.
If the Hollywood $5 and $10 premiere-going bunch
has anything further to say about it – and they have plenty
in this case – it‘s going to be too bad for all future
downtown premieres. Terrible manner in which the City Lights
(Chaplin) opening was handled for the inauguration of the
new Los Angeles theatre renewed vows among the first-nighters
never to go below the Hollywood boundary to be subjected
to the gaping peasants and the poor treatment of the hick cops
and general confusion which seems to be much better
controlled at an ,uptown‘ or Hollywood opening.
Cliff Work, division manager of R-K-O, is taking extra
pains for his $5 and $2 premiere at the Orpheum,
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L.A., of Cimarron on Friday (6) as the direct result of the battle
between the stiff-fronts and the booboisie so that the
customers get an even break in the battle for admission.
Chaplin opening called out a riot squad of cops,
but, as some of the more cosmopolitan first-nighters remarked,
all that was noodled for the handling of the situation were
only a couple of the New York brand of cops
With the traffic jam as it was, the hi-hat first-nighters
paraded from the Biltmore hotel three blocks away
to the theatre, traversing a jammed lane of peasants who were
prepared for the situation with resonant ,Bronx cheers.‘
A number of store fronts adjacent to the theatre on Broadway
and Sixth were caved in.“
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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