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Motion Picture News, New York, February 24, 1923.
Charlie Chaplin in „The Gold Rush“
– Marlborough Picture Theatre, Holloway Road
(London), Monday, March 8th for one week –
programme cover, undated, Bill Douglas Collection
& Tivoli Theatre, audience with stage viewed
from balcony, London, undated, yooniqimages.com
& Charles Chaplin being interviewed
at the Ritz Hotel, London, 1922, ssplprints.com
& Piccadilly Circus and the London Pavilion,
advertising „Cochran‘s Revue,“ London, 1930, postcard,
arthurlloyd.co.uk
& Castleton Knight, undated, British Universities Film & Video
Council, John Turner Collection
& Prologue to „Hunting Big Game in Africa“ staged
at the Pavilion, London, England, with extensive collection
of savage implements.
(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, July 7, 1923
& OUR British cousins, it develops, place
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D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin at the head of their list
of film divinities. This conclusion is based upon
the results of a popularity contest conducted in England
recently by The Sunday Pictorial, which undertook
to determine the preferences and prejudices of the British
film going public.
„Way Down East“ was declared the most popular picture,
according to the report by cable last week, voting
being general throughout the British Isles. Second in popularity
was „Orphans of the Storm,“ followed by „The Kid“
in third place.
The voting in this contest included every important American
picture which had been shown there prior to March.
(...) Motion Picture News, New York, August 25, 1923
„The first exhibitor to greet him“
Editorial content. „Leading British Exhibitor Here
Castleton Knight of London Making
Study of American Methods
Castleton Knight, director of presentation for the Marble
Arch Pavilion, Shaftesbury Avenue Pavilion. Sheperds
Bush Pavilion and Lavender Hill Pavilion, all of London, England,
and formerly general manager of the Majestic Cinema,
Clapham, arrived in New York this week on the ,Carmania‘ for
several weeks‘ stay, during which he will make a study
of presentation methods in the leading theatres in New York,
Chicago and probably Los Angeles.
Knight is known throughout England as one of the most
enterprising of showmen, and accounts of many of his
campaigns have appeared in the Exhibitors‘ Service Bureau
of Motion Picture News.
At the time of Chaplin‘s visit to England, Knight
flew to Cherbourg by airplane and was the first exhibitor
to greet him. Chaplin promised to make a personal
appearance at his Majestic Cinema, but when the comedian
was returning to London from Paris by airplane,
with but two days remaining, Knight decided on a ruse.
He chartered a high powered car, disguised himself,
and met the plane when Chaplin landed, stating that he had
been sent from the Ritz, where Chaplin was stopping.
Chaplin entered the machine and Knight drove him
to the Majestic Cinema, then revealed his identity. He took
it good naturedly and made a personal appearance
and speech, the only one made in England. Meanwhile, Lloyd
George was waiting for Chaplin.“ (...)
The Gold Rush opens in England Sept. 14, 1925 at the Tivoli,
65-70½ Strand (at John Adams Street), London.
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