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Mollie Merrick, Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash., Feb. 9, 1931.

Al Hirschfeld (creator), CHARLIE CHAPLIN, THE END,

lithograph, Margo Feiden Galleries Ltd.

& City Lights Scene

& Charlie Chaplin in seinem neuen Film „City Lights“

(...) Weltspiegel, Berliner Tageblatt, Berlin, Dtl., Feb. 22, 1931

& EVERYTHING BUT SHOOTING ON THE CHAPLIN FRONT

      Chaplin and his faithful crew work at will. Everybody

      is at the studio at 9 a. m. No one knows whether Chaplin will

      appear or not. There is a lookout stationed at the gate...

      His studio is a mecca for the intelligentsia...

      Two restaurant men acting in „City Lights“ are Henry Bergman,

      proprietor of Henry‘s Cafe, and Hank Mann, solon of

      Bot & Hank‘s...

      – From three recent stories about „City Lights,“ the Chaplin

      silent film now showing at the Los Angeles Theater.

      BY PHILIP K. SCHEUER

      Scene: the Chaplin lot. At rise of curtain, a corps of assistants

are gathered around a table piled with books and magazines.

      First Asst.: Decidedly, of the two media, this phantasmagoria

called the talkie must eventually recede before the

inestimably superior art of the pantomimist.

      Second Asst.:Exactly. The finite theater, a concrete and

triplex-sided arrangement of condensed time-and-place,

cannot obliterate, much less coalesce with, the mute and infinite

shadowgraph. We all know this to be so.

      Prop Man (sticking head in at door.:) So what?

      First Asst.: Has the boss arrived?

      Prop Man (withdrawing head.:) Nope.

      First Asst.: Ah, well-a-day. Any news of Einstein?

      Second Asst.: Still in Germany. But never fear! he‘ll get

here for the premiere.

      First Asst.: (listening.:) What‘s that?

      Second Asst.: Sounds like the boss.

      (A gong sounds. There is instant excitement. An automobile

drives through the gate and on into the office. Slowly

emerge a cane, a derby and then the head of Charlie.)

      Charlie: Well, boys, what‘s new?

(...) Photo, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8, 1931

„Smashed the window of her car and lacerated her face severely“

Editorial content. „Stars And Talkies of Hollywood

      By Mollie Merrick.

      Special to The Spokesman-Review and North American

Newspaper Alliance. Copyright. 1931.

      Hollywood, Cal., Feb. 8. – Backwash of talk from

the famous attending the Chaplin opening reveals

the fact that one actress had her head cut severely when

a rock – hurled from some mysterious source –

smashed the window of her car and lacerated her face severely.

      Several others have announced that they will make

no more public appearances until the financial question in America

is in better state. The crowd seems to be acquiring a new

tone these days – nearer to a mutter than a cheer.“

     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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