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H. H. Niemeyer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 12, 1936.
Charles Chaplin and Will Hays, president of the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors of America, at a Hollywood gathering, 1932, Discovering Chaplin
& WILL HAYS Our General © (...)
BIG BURLESQUE NUMBER
(...) Screenland Cover, design by John Held, Jr., March 1924
& Chaplin Picture Held Up
For New Musical Score
Screen‘s First Comedian Makes $50,000 Worth
of Changes. Sings Once Himself – Offers Something
for Censor.
By H. H. NIEMEYER. (...)
He does not talk in the picture but – and this will surprise
you – he sings. Sings a little song in French and does
it beautifully. That Chaplin, who has never made a sound in any
previous film should elect to make his vocal debut by way
of a song is rather remarkable. But then Chaplin is a remarkable
artist. (...)
Strange to say the piece contains a long scene of the most
unparalleled vulgarity the screen has ever known.
Unquestionably it is very, very funny but it is so glaringly off
color, to put it rather mildly, that it cannot even be
further discussed in these chaste columns. Whether or not
it will remain in the film and allowed to go out to the
public remain to be seen. We are under the impression that
the Hays Office, which has not yet been shown the
picture, will put its foot down hard on that sequence and
order it cut out entirely.
(...) St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Jan. 5, 1936.
It‘s not a little song in French, what Chaplin sings.
& 6 SCENES OUT OF CHAS.
CHAPLIN‘S MODERN PIC
Hollywood, Jan. 14. Without protest, Charlie Chaplin
sent his Modern Times through the Hays‘ office purity mill for
a Joe Breen seal.
Picture was shown to Hays‘ staff last week with six
scenes deleted.
(...) Variety, New York, January 15, 1936
& . . . The musical score of Charlie
Chaplin‘s „Modern Times,“ much of which was composed
by the star himself, is to be published
by Irving Berlin. . . .
(...) Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Jan. 31, 1936
„Ordered cut out of the picture on account of the vulgarity“
Editorial content. „Movie Business Looking
Up After Gains in 1935 (...)
By H. H. NIEMEYER.“ (...)
„Chaplin Picture Runs Afoul
Censor Board
As predicted in last Sunday‘s Post-Dispatch the new
Charlie Chaplin opus, Modern Times, failed to pass
the Hays office where motion pictures run into their first
censorship. The film was shown to the Hays
representatives last Wednesday and six scenes were
immediately ordered cut out of the picture on
account of the vulgarity, which was referred to in these columns.
It was the first time a Chaplin picture had ever been
submitted to the Hays office for censorship. Chaplin tried
to get Modern Times passed just as it stood but was
overruled. The film will be released around the country on Jan.
16 unless the order for cuts necessitates some retakes.“
Modern Times world premiere is in New York Feb. 5, 1936
at the Rivoli Theatre.
Rivoli Theatre, Broadway at 49th Street, New York.
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