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Variety, New York, February 11, 1931.

Movie of the Week City Lights

Chaplin‘s 19-year-old tragicomedy is still the best movie of 1950

(...) Life, May 8, 1950, Part III

„Customers flocking in mornings“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Film Slides $10,000

      In 2d L. A. Week to $30,000.“ (...)

      „Los Angeles, Feb. 10.

      (Drawing Population, 1,500,000)

      Favorable turn in weather shot grosses up in short order

after volplaning downward with last week‘s cloudbursts.

Two days of unprecedented downpours ruined some excellent

grosses, although business was generally so healthy

that the weather was only a minor matter on the week‘s

figures.“ (...)

      „United Artists, with Devil to Pay at $22,000 for its

initial week, hasn‘t seen business like this for many moons.

Everything else is holding up nicely with a couple of

disappointers fetching comments. Chaplin‘s City Lights is doing business, but not as briskly as would be expected.“ (...)

      „Los Angeles (Gumbiner) – City Lights (Chaplin)

(2,000; 25-$1.50) (2d week) Failed to hit anticipated $50,000

and barely $40,000 on opening week, with $30,000 for

this week indicated; $1.50 price and scale graduations counting

against the picture; customers flocking in mornings and

going light during high-price periods.“ (...)

     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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