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Jack Alicoate, Film Daily, New York, February 17, 1931.

City Lights Rehearsal Scene, 1929,

Discovering Chaplin

& Unused City Lights Scenes

& Jack Alicoate, The Publisher of The Film Daily

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

„Signor Chaplin and his latest cinema opera“

Editorial content. „Mr. Chaplin

      – the star extraordinary

      By Jack Alicoate

      City Lights Is a Panic

      Regardless of a minute critical opinion to the contrary,

one fact stands out as prominent as Charlie Pettijohn

at an Allied convention, Signor Chaplin and his latest cinema

opera are knocking the home folks for a row of sprocket

holes and thereby and to wit breaking all established, known,

and authenticated records in relation to the infrequent

visits to the big stem. Any time the paying costumers wait

in line, in the rain, from nine in the morning, to see

any man‘s picture, it must be pretty much all to the merry.

And that, as grover Cleveland would have said,

is fact and not theory.

      On Top and Staying There

      It may be because Mr. Chaplin is a genius. Perhaps

it is the fact that his pictures come so far apart.

At any rate he has been on the top from the start and has

stayed there. How many others have done the same?

It is rather elemental logic that the longer one stays on top

the better one has to be. To stand that test in this

business you‘ve got to be a champ. What is the answer,

then, for the stars of today? Save their money to be

prepared for another day. Tomorrow 90 per cent of the big

names of today will be on the sidelines. It has ever

been such in the show business.

      The Complex Vestal Bill

      Trying to savvy all of the ramifications of the Vestal

Bill is about as easy as explaining thoroughly and

completely Mr. Einstein‘s simple theory of relativity. If this

Vestal package does get by Congress, it‘s six, two,

and even that it will lead to no small amount of judicial

interpretation and construction before it finally

operates smoothly. One of its salient high-spots is whether

it is better for the government to protect the work

of authors and composers for 50 years after their death

or endeavor to favor the music loving and reading

public by making this so-called intellectual property available

as soon as initial rights have expired.“ (...)  

     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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