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Welford Beaton, Film Spectator, Hollywood, March 17, 1928.

Fox Albemarle Theatre, Brooklyn, New York

Carlson & Wiseman, Architects

Speckled Gray Terry Cotta All Trim and Ornament

(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, Oct. 8, 1921

& Effective marine atmosphere in „Down to the Sea in Ships“

lobby at the Albemarle theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, June 9, 1923

& What a fine play „The Circus,“ Charlie Chaplin‘s United Artists‘ picture, was given when it played the Albemarle theatre,

Brooklyn! Manager S. Gauber dressed the doorman as a ring

master, the porter as a Hindoo, the ushers as clowns

and the lobby in the atmosphere of the circus with cutouts

and an animated elephant. Good work.

(...) Photo with crew at entrance, Exhibitors Herald and

Moving Picture World, April 28, 1928

      Albemarle Theatre, 973 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, New York.

& CHAPLIN TO CELEBRATE

      TENTH YEAR

      Comedian Will Observe Anniversary

      of Setting Up Own Studio

(...) Los Angeles Times, March 4, 1928

& CHAPLIN‘S FIRST

      DECADE PASSES

      Charlie Chaplin is preparing to celebrate the tenth

anniversary of the establishment of his own

studio in Hollywood in connection with the showing of his

latest production, „The Circus,“ at Grauman‘s

Chinese Theater.

(...) Los Angeles Evening Express, March 16, 1928

„He did it instinctively“

Editorial content. „One would think that Charley Chaplin,

who has caused so many million laughs, would

know in advance what incidents in a picture would cause

laughter. But he doesn‘t. In the William Tell sequence

in The Circus he waggles his finger to denote that he found

a worm in the apple he is eating. It is a little piece

of business that always gets a laugh. When the scene was

being shot Charley gave no thought to the movement

of his finger. He did it instinctively. No one watching the rushes

noticed it. When the picture was previewed for the first

time Charley was startled by the laughter that the action caused.

He told me about it during a conversation in which

we were discussing the value of previews. If Charley Chaplin

can‘t tell what an audience is going to like there is little

chance of the rest of us being able to.“

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