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Motion Picture News, New York, April 13, 1929.

Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. & The Vitaphone

Corp. Present (...) WB title, 1929

& Here‘s the parade of „Noah‘s Ark“ through the streets

of Salt Lake City to exploit the Warner special, when it played

the Capitol theatre.

(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald-World, July 6, 1929

& Nancy Welford in a scene from „The Gold Diggers

of Broadway,“ a Warner Brothers Vitaphone all color special.

(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald-World, Sept. 14, 1929

& The Warner Bros. Spectacular Singing

Success! Desert Song Play It Day And Date With B‘way!

(...) Ad, Motion Picture News, April 27, 1929

„To the highest bidder“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Against U. A.-Warner Deal; Purchase

      Of The Star‘s Interest And Contract Likely

      Bankers Reported Insisting That Proposed Merger    

      Must Go Through

      (Hollywood Bureau, Motion Picture News)

      Hollywood, April 10. – Following the flat refusal of Charlie

Chaplin to be a party to the proposed United Artists-Warner consolidation, it was learned authoritatively today that completion

of the deal hinges upon the purchase of Chaplin‘s interest

in United Artists and the cancellation of contract for the three

remaining pictures which he was to make for that company.  

      Chaplin would then, it is understood, sell the completed films individually to the highest bidder in the open market.

      Joseph M. Schenck is said to be plainly disturbed

over the Chaplin attitude, but must, it is believed, consummate

the deal because of the insistence of the bankers.

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith, other

owner-members of United Artists, are agreeable

to the deal, but it is unlikely that the two former would outvote

Chaplin in the present situation. Both are favorable

to the plan that the Chaplin interest should be purchased

and that the deal should then be put through

as scheduled.

      Schenck Silent

      Mr. Schenck declined today to make any comment

or to answer questions.“ (...)

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