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Variety, New York, February 11, 1931.

Geo. M. Cohen Theatre, exterior by day,

marquee 10 Nights In Chinatown – Wm Powell -

Kay Francis in „Ladies Man,“ New York, 1931

& Ladies Man Poster

& The King of Comedy

      in the Supreme Laugh Sensation of the Century

Charlie Chaplin in CITY LIGHTS

      Written, directed and Produced by Charles Chaplin

      A new note in screen entertainment; plays

on the funny bone and the heart strings; runs the gamut

of emotions – Charlie befriended and forgotten

by an eccentric millionaire – Charlie the „white wing“; Charlie

in the price ring pushing leather to aid the little blind

flower girl; Charlie as a blue-blood of the city streets. It‘s so

good, we dare you to miss it!

      A Comedy Romance in Pantomime!

      Three Years in the making for

      your two hours of fun. Charlie at his most

      Chaplinesque!

For the above design order 19 – Four Col. Ad. (Mat 30c;

Cut $1.00)

(...) City Lights Pressbook Cover, 1931, United Artists collection

at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

& „I never laughed so loud or long!“

      – Walter Winchell

Charlie CHAPLIN in „CITY LIGHTS“ (...)

      Movie of the Week

      City Lights

      Chaplin‘s  19-year-old tragicomedy

      is still the best movie of 1950

Trans Lux Theatre City Lights Revival Program, 1950, ebay

„One of the best handled picture openings New York has seen“

Editorial content. „Inside Stuff – Pictures“ (...)

      „Premiere for Chaplin‘s City Lights at the Cohan was

one of the best handled picture openings New York

has seen. Police had the crowds backed halfway between

the theatre and 43d street, with no trouble to enter

the theatre. A squadron of bluecoats accomplished this with

a mounted cop on the sidewalk.

      Exodus was equally well handled, the Cohan‘s side

exits into 43d street doing much to speed the departing $11

premiere guests.

      Chaplin made his entrance into the interior of the house

with a police escort and acknowledged the picture‘s

reception with a very brief speech at the close. First night

crowd, incidentally, tacked applause on the end

of practically every sequence throughout the running.

      The Cohan has become known along the

Street as the best house for sound among any of the legit

stands which have gone film. Some picture men

even rate it superior to any New York theatre on this phase.“

      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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