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

Safety Thirst! You might think that Merna

Kennedy, playing the vocal screen version of the nightclub

melodrama, „Broadway,“ would find such a thing

as water too tame for her taste. But that‘s what she drinks

– on the set, at least. Figuring probably that it‘s better

to be safe than saturated.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture, May 1929

& High Shoes Merna Kennedy‘s Are In Position

If Not In Cut. She has found, the heroine

of the screen production of Broadway, that the best way

of resting one‘s feet up between dancing scenes,

is propping them up. You doubtless remember Merna from

the days of Charlie Chaplin‘s last picture,

„The Circus.“ She might have been his leading woman

again. But being that to Charlie is like having

your birthday come on the twenty-ninth of February.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture, July 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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