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Los Angeles Evening Express, L. A., Cal., July 6, 1929.

A „Sound“ Proposition (...)

      United Artists Pictures (...)

Charles Chaplin in „City Lights“

A Picture Chaplin Has Spent a Year to Make

(...) Variety, July 3, 1929.

„No wonder he fears such a step“

Editorial content. „Perhaps Charlie

      Feels Lonesome

      Is Charlie Chaplin weakening? Hollywood is both

amazed and amused to learn that he is to have his studio

wired.

      Charlie was about the last of the irreconcilables and has

been scathing in denouncing the illegitimate talkies.

      Now it begins to look as if he was throwing an anchor

to windward in preparation for the future.

      He isn‘t worrying about his present picture, City Lights,

which will have no dialogue.

      His releasing agents are said to have $2,000,000

worth of bookings, a third of the amount for second and third

runs.

      But it is beginning to penetrate even Charlie‘s

obstinacy that perhaps he can‘t forever champion an obsolete

thing.

      Studio after studio is announcing it is through with the

,silents‘; film exchanges say they can‘t sell them.

      When he was on the stage Charlie never spoke lines;

would he be the same funny tramp if he used words?

      No wonder he fears such a step. Lon Chaney is the only

other prominent irreconcilable.“

      On stage Charles Chaplin spoke lines.

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