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Film Daily, New York, March 28, 1929.

„On With the Show“

A Warner Bros. Vitaphone Production in Technicolor

(...) Four Page Advertisement, Motion Picture

News, June 21, 1929, detail

& To-night – When Your Show is Over

      After the last of your people have gone –

      And the lights are dimmed and the music stilled –

      And the applause and laughter echo only in the memory –

      Go into your darkened house.

      Alone there, try to conjure up the Spirit of the Films:

      Try to bring out the walls that have so often

resounded the joyous acclaim of your people

      The real essence of the motion picture‘s appeal.

      Try to read into the heart of hearts of your audiences.

      And though the age of miracles is past, there

will rise out of the dusk and shadows of your house

      A Vision – now radiant as it reflects the exquisite charm

of Mary Pickford.

      Again, rollicking in joyous abandon with the elfish mirth

of Charlie Chaplin. (...)

      Guarding Your Greatest Asset

      Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W.

      Griffith are your great asset. (...)

      United Artists Corporation

(...) Moving Picture World, June 14, 1919, detail

& Chaplin States He Will Quit

      U. A. in Event of Any Merger

      Would Hold Amalgamation Automatic Cancellation

      of His Contract (...)

      Charles Chaplin, through his representatives, told

The Film Daily Friday that if United Artists is merged,

he would consider such a step an automatic cancellation

of his contract which calls for three more pictures.

      Chaplin‘s consistent opposition to any amalgamation

involving United Artists is unchanged, his representatives

assert. In the event that the deal now under way

with the Warners is consummated, it is stated on his behalf

that Chaplin would probably place his picture in the

market to be sold to the highest bidder in open competition.

(...) Film Daily, New York, March 24, 1929

„Biggest stumbling block“

Editorial content. „Schenck On Coast For

      Warner Deal Answer?

      Returning East in A Few Weeks – Chaplin Seen

      Stumbling Block“ (...)

      „Meanwhile, Charles Chaplin is said to be biggest 

stumbling block to the reported deal, having declared he will

consider his United Artists contract cancelled if the

declared deal is consummated,“

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