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Motion Picture Herald, New York, June 22, 1935.

The „Big Four“ photographed immediately after they signed

their respective contracts „legalizing their emotions,“

to quote Douglas Fairbanks. Left to right, Douglas Fairbanks,

Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith.

(...) Photo, Moving Picture World, March 1, 1919

& Charging that the Fox West Coast Theatres constitute

an arrogant monopoly which seeks to stifle the

endeavor of motion picture artists and producers, these world

famous personalities of the United Artists organization

have announced they, if necessary, will show their pictures

in tents, armories and halls, but in the future will

not show them in the theatres of the Fox West Coast „trust.“

Left to right Al Jolson, Mary Pickford, in one of the

costumes she wears in her latest picture, „Kiki;“ Ronald Colman,

Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks, Joseph M.

Schenck, president and chairman of the board of the United

Artists Corporation; Charley Chaplin, Samuel Goldwyn,

Eddie Cantor, Los Angeles, 1930, Wisconsin Historical Society

& Al Lichtman with hat

(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, May 19, 1934, detail

& Charles Chaplin, Al Lichtman, Mary Pickford

and Samuel Goldwyn (left to right) are pictured above

at the Hollywood meeting of the three owners

of United Artists at which they elected Mr. Lichtman president

to succeed Joseph M. Schenck, who resigned with

Darryl Zanuck to associate the Schenck-Zanuck 20th Century

Pictures company with Fox Film.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, June 22, 1935

„His hat blew off in Chicago“

Editorial content. „MR. LICHTMAN‘S HAT

      THE election of Mr. Al Lichtman to the presidency

of United Artists Corporation reminds us pleasantly of the

whimsical fact that he got into the motion picture

business because his hat blew off in Chicago. That was way

back yonder. Young Mr. Lichtman was a dapper soldier

in the recruiting service of Uncle Sam‘s army, in Omaha. He went

to Chicago on furlough to get a job and buy a discharge.

He had just been turned down after an ardent try at selling himself

to a poster service, and was on his way to the train that

would take him back to Omaha and the army, when a wind

sweeping Michigan Avenue blew his natty straw sailor

into the lake. It made him so angry that he faced about and went

back to the poster office with a new head of steam and got

the job. The job as poster salesman initiated his long career

of showmanship.“

      Modern Times world premiere will be in New York

      Feb. 5, 1936 at the Rivoli Theatre.

      Rivoli Theatre, Broadway at 49th Street, New York.

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