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Gladys Hall, Motion Picture, New York, May 1929.

Gladys Hall, undated, Online Archive of California

& Charlie Chaplin on the Talkies

(...) Cover Portrait of Phyllis Haver by Marland Stone, especially

created by Russell Ball, Motion Picture, May 1929

& Not Pug-Nosed

      „Why did I choose Virginia Cherrill for my leading

lady?“ Charlie Chaplin pondered. „We-ll, I don‘t

exactly know. Except that I saw her first at a prize-fight. And

she looked so different from the people in the ring.“

      Old Virginny

      Now it‘s only fair to tell one on Charlie.

„I do hope,“ said Virginia Cherrill, a trifle plaintively, „that we finish

this picture while I‘m still young.“

(...) In and Out of Focus, Motion Picture, May 1929

„The lone prophet“

Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin Attacks the Talkies

      They Rob The Screen Of Its Three Great Essentials:

      Beauty, Sex-Appeal And Pantomime

      By Gladys Hall

      The Warner Brothers and other Hollywood prophets are

rushing about shouting, like a prophet of old, ,This is the

Way.‘ They refer to the turbulent talkies and never hear them

as the death-rattle in the movie throat.

      Free-lance and contract players are shuddering about,

too, little echoes of the overlords.

      One prophet stands erect, shaking his graying mane and

roaring ,This is not the Way.‘

      The lone prophet is Charlie Chaplin.“ (...)

      Four photos.

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