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Film Daily, New York, April 14, 1929.

Right to left: Benjamin Warner, father of the Warner Brothers;

Major Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner, and the Hon.

Anthony Ruffo, Jr., Mayor in Atlantic City during the annual

sales convention.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, June 29, 1929

& Left to right: Harry Warner, Benjamin

Warner (his father), and Major Albert Warner at the opening

of the new Warner theatre in Atlantic City during

the annual sales convention.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, June 29, 1929

& Chaplin Keeps Hard at Work

      on Birthday

      Charles Chaplin, the film comedian, celebrated his fortieth

birthday yesterday, at the same time rejecting the

$1,000,000 offer to appear in a talking picture for James

Cruze, producer-director.

      The fact that yesterday was his birthday apparently meant

nothing in Chaplin‘s life. He was busy all day rehearsing

an important scene for his forthcoming comedy which will be

filmed tomorrow. However, last night, he gave

an informal dinner party.

      It was said at the studio that Chaplin is devoting all his

time to his own comedy, „City Lights.“ He sticks

to his previously announced intention of having nothing to do

with the $60,000,000 United Artists consolidation

and Warner Brothers merger.

      Joseph Schenck, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks

and Gloria Swanson are expected to leave for New

York Sunday or early next week to arrange the financial

program for the consolidation of all the United

Artists holdings into a corporation to be known as United

Artists Consolidated, Inc. Samuel Goldwyn is already

en route to New York, while D. W. Griffith is to go there

from Texas.

(...) Los Angeles Times, April 17, 1929

& Chaplin‘s Short (...)

      Charles Chaplin will write and direct a two-reel

dialog picture to be produced to accompany „City Lights“

when it is released.

(...) Variety, May 1, 1929

& Chaplin

      Wednesday: Consolidation or not, Charlie Chaplin says

he won‘t go in. My goodness, how he sticks to that

story! He actually turned down $2,000,000 in cash and 150,000

shares of stock. What price temperament now?...

(...) Experiments, Film Daily, May 19, 1929

„Merger talk is as dead as last night‘s ginger ale“

Editorial content. „Out – Like a Light

      Friday: Weeks ago, if you recall, we tipped you off that the

Warner-United Artists deal was headed for the rocks.

It‘s on ‘em. Merger talk is as dead as last night‘s ginger ale.“ (...)

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