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Motion Picture News, New York, February 16, 1924.

Ernst Lubitsch, who will direct three specials

for Warner Brothers, is evidently going in strong for research.

The camera catches him at a busy moment safely

intrenched behind his barricade. „The Marriage Circle“ is his

current Warner classic for the screen.

(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, March 22, 1924

& A group of „insiders“ of the industry

were discussing the relative financial returns now enjoyed

by film stars. (...) Chaplin is taking his time and

not worrying particularly about immediate profit. But, just the

same time, „The Woman of Paris,“ which was

supposed to lack popular appeal, has already brought in close

to seven hundred thousand and will easily go the million

mark. It was an inexpensive production, as the players worked

for much under their usual salaries in order to get the

opportunity with Chaplin. Menjou was the highest-salaried, and

he only took five hundred a week. Chaplin voluntarily

gave Edna Purviance a percentage of the profits in recognition

for her long service as his leading woman.

(...) Studio News and Gossip East and West By Cal York,

Photoplay, August 1924

„So many comparable points“

Editorial content. „PICTURES AND PEOPLE“ (...)

      „WE predicted some time ago that the treatment of pictures

by suggestion – with thorough concentration

upon achieving natural effects in incident, detail and

interpretation would soon be engaging imaginative

directors. We made this statement after witnessing Chaplin‘s

A Woman of Paris. The German director, Ernst

Lubitsch, is the first to profit by simple, direct methods

with The Marriage Circle.

      We are assuming that he has seen the Chaplin picture

– because it has so many comparable points.“ (...)

      „A perfectly rounded story – one that kept the New York

Strand audiences constantly alert, drinking in its

capricious moods and shadings. The screen becomes

a true medium of light comedy here.“

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