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Film Daily, New York, February 12, 1931.
City Lights Pressbook Poster 6 Sheet,
1931, United Artists collection at the Wisconsin Center
for Film and Theater Research
& City Lights Scene
& Wrestling in the Hippodrome, New York City, 1935–1941,
Works Progress Administration
& Scene From Charles Chaplin‘s Film „City Lights“
(...) REFLECTIONS AND NEWS OF THE SCREEN WORLD
New York Times, Feb. 8, 1931
& Charlie Chaplin turned down invitations from Park
Avenue to show his film at Sing Sing.
(...) Photo, Picture Play, May 1931
& Chaplin‘s Choice.
While social leaders were making something of a spectacle
of themselves clamoring for Charlie Chaplin to attend
their parties, Charlie slipped quietly up to Sing Sing the night
before his departure for England, and showed „City
Lights“ to the prisoners.
(...) Picture Play, May 1931
& City Lights Pressbook Poster Sheet No. 2,
1931, United Artists collection at the Wisconsin Center
for Film and Theater Research
& City Lights Poster
& Chaplin to Visit Sing Sing.
Special to The New York Times.
OSSINING, N. Y., Feb. 5. – Sing Sing authorities
announced today that Charles Chaplin, who is a personal
friend of Warden Lewis E. Lawes, will visit the prison
on Thursday night and have his new silent film, „City Lights,“
run off in the auditorium to entertain the inmates.
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SCREEN NOTES.
Charles Chaplin‘s comedy, „City Lights,“ will be presented
this evening at the George M. Cohan Theatre.
(...) New York Times, Feb. 6, 1931
& CHAPLIN AT SING SING LAUGHS
AT OWN FILM
1800 Convicts Swept by Gales of Laughter
OSSINING, N. Y., Feb. 12 – Charlie Chaplin sat with 1800
pale-faced men tonight and chortled at himself.
The comedian, who has been interested in prison welfare
work for years, brought his new picture, „City Lights,“
to Sing Sing and showed it for the convicts. Gale after gale
of laughter swept the new auditorium and the funny
man joined in.
Besides entertaining the prisoners he kept his eyes open
for local color to use in his next work. The picture was
shown to the 1800 men who are in the new department of the
prison. There are upwards of 500 men who could not
see it because they are kept in the old department and do not
have access to the new auditorium.
Chaplin met the prisoners en masse and talked to several
individually.
(...) Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts,
Feb. 13, 1931
& CHAPLIN TALKS TO PRISONERS
AND THEN SAILS FOR ENGLAND
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. (UP) – Charlie Chaplin, who showed
his new silent picture, „City Lights,“ and made a little
speech before inmates at Sing Sing prison Thursday, after
refusing $650,000 for six radio broadcasts earlier this
week, left New York for England last night on the Mauretania.
The comedian sat in a box at Sing Sing with Warden
Lewis E. Lawes, Joan, the warden‘s nine-year-old daughter,
and the Rev. Robert G. Booth, chaplain at Dannemora
prison, during showing of the film.
„If the other picture people would show their productions
here it would be a good thing – to make these fellows
laugh and forget their troubles,“ Chaplin said afterward.
„I feel well paid for coming up here, he told
the prisoners.
(...) Tulare Advance-Register, Tulare, California,
Feb. 14, 1931
„They oughter appreciate it“
Editorial content. „Along the Rialto
with Phil M. Daly.“ (...)
„Charlie Chaplin will take a print of City Lights to Sing
Sing today... they oughter appreciate it, for a lot of our
City Lights are there... which reminds us that this up-and-coming
United Artists outfit is stepping right along... with City Lights
smashing all records at the George Cohan...“ (...)
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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