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Jack Alicoate, Film Daily, New York, February 8, 1931.

Who else, but Charlie Chaplin, as he appears in his newest

picture, „City Lights,“ at the George M. Cohan?

(...) Photo, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1931

& „LONG LIVE the KING!“

– shout critics and public in thunderous acclaim of

CHARLIE CHAPLIN in „CITY LIGHTS“

(...) Ad, New York Times, Feb. 9, 1931

& Old Timers Swap Stories

      Winfield Sheehan and George M. Cohan, exchanging

stories of the New York of an earlier day

at the luncheon given the former yesterday at the Lotos Club.

(...) Photo by Cosmo-Sileo Co., Motion Picture

Daily, Aug. 21, 1935, detail

& Jack Alicoate

(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, July 6, 1935

& Jack Alicoate

(...) Photo, Film Daily Year Book 1930

& LITTLE TRAMP ARRIVES

      THERE is no time for breakfast when Chaplin comes

to town, as the Pennsylvania should have known.

So the early morning repast grew cold in the diner of the

Broadway Limited, and some railroad man‘s dream

of the press breaking bread politely with Mr. Chaplin went

a-glimmering. Plates were shoved aside, wide-eyed

darkles pushed into the background, hats and coats dropped

in the aisles and twenty pencils pointed at the

pleasant, shy man with the silvery hair and the young face.

      That raging controversy – the talkies

versus Charles Chaplin – was the most pressing topic.

      „My attitude toward dialogue films depends

on public feeling,“ he said.

(...) New York Times, Feb. 8, 1931

„Depends on public feeling“

Editorial content. „,City Lights‘

      The irresistible Mr. Chaplin paid Broadway his tri-ennial

visit last evening and as usual Mr. Chaplin sent home

the smartest first-night audience of the season again singing

his praises as the greatest pantomimist of all time. City

Lights is all silent and typically Chaplinesque in its mixture

of laughs, tears, pathos and slapstick. The story,

although episodic, hits the high spots with delightful frequency.

As to the question of sound vs. silent, this Chaplin

affair settles nothing. Chaplin is king. He can do no cinema

wrong. He could turn handsprings anywhere in filmland

where others would not dare to tread. For instance, here he even

gives sound the merry raspberry via travesty and it is as

delicious a screen morsel as one will find. If City Lights does

nothing else it will demonstrate that Silence is Golden, at

least in this instance, and as far the box-office is concerned.

                                                             ALICOATE.“

      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.

      City Lights closes at the Cohan Theatre in New York

      April 30, 1931.

   

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