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Terry Ramsaye, Motion Picture Herald, New York, Jan. 14, 1936.
Terry Ramsaye (right)
(...) Central News photo, Motion Picture Herald,
April 29, 1933
& Modern Times Pressbook Cover, 1936,
United Artists collection at the Wisconsin Center for Film and
Theater Research
& Editorial Writers Contacted
On Chaplin‘s „Modern Times“
Announced as invading a new field in publicizing films
United Artists, with the release of Chaplin‘s „Modern
Times“ is forwarding to every chief editorial writer in the
country a 12-page booklet detailing personalities,
data on the picture.
Stories in the booklet include monograph on Chaplin‘s
life, compilation of views on the comic‘s work, and
accounts having to do with the star‘s versatility, all gathered
for the purpose of stimulating editorial comment.
(...) Motion Picture Herald, Jan. 11, 1936
„Nonchalant, independent and world-minded“
Editorial content. „Hollywood Reaching For Actual
Control of Film Business
by Terry Ramsaye in Hollywood“ (...)
„United Artists
in the Picture
United Artists may not be so especially united all the while,
but it consists of the still ambitious Miss Mary Pickford,
the nonchalant, independent and world-minded Charles Chaplin,
and the indefatigably able and alert Samuel Goldwyn, who
will ever fight like the very devil for what he wants, but never lets
the fighting get outside the reservation.
It may be observed that while United Artists lost, or shall
we say was intrigued into dispensing with, the extremely
effective Alexander Lichtman, he was not lost to or permitted
to escape from the service of the dynastic polygon
of power. Also the indications are that the scenario of his
readjustment to the picture is still being written, with
surprise sequences ahead.“ (...)
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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