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Robbin Coons, San Pedro News-Pilot, S. P., Cal., Feb. 3, 1936.

In Chaplin Film

      Paulette Goddard has her first important screen role in the

new Charles Chaplin picture, „Modern Times,“ which

will have its premiere at the Rivoli Theatre tomorrow night.

(...) Photo, Daily News, New York, Feb. 4, 1936

& AT SANTA ANITA the best dressed lady, so far for the season,

is Paulette Goddard (Charlie Chaplin‘s leading lady).

Having a passion for furs, she‘s appeared each and every day

in a new creation garnered from our four footed friends,

and all is very tasty. Next time anyone whips up a list of the 12

best dressed ladies of the world, Paulette certainly must

be added . . .

(...) Lloyd Pantages, San Francisco Examiner,

San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 29, 1936

„The biographer would have his material all at hand“

Editorial content. „PRICE OF FAME ESTIMATED

      . . . . .  To Charlie Chaplin

      By ROBBIN COONS

      The price of fame to Charlie Chaplin is between $2.25

and 47.50 a day – literally.

      This is when the little white-haired comedian is between

pictures and not prominently in the news. When

he makes a picture or hits the front pages the cost mounts.

      Charlie‘s studio receives, ordinarily, between

seventy-five and 150 press clippings a day.

      The clipping bureau, accommodating celebrities

by keeping track of what is said and written about

them, charge him 5 cents apiece for the first 1000 clippings

in any month, 4 cents apiece after that.

      He pays nothing for the avalanche of foreign

items, which are sent gratis by United Artists exchanges

abroad.

                                        * * *

      Clippings are coming in faster now that Charlie

Chaplin in Modern Times is nearing release. It is his first film

since City Lights in 1931.

      Of these clippings the ,more interesting‘ are pasted

by Chaplin aides into large scrapbooks, which

eventually will join countless others in a large store-room

whose shelves are lined with bulging scrapbooks.

      In this storeroom, for future Chaplin biographers, is the

complete record of his rise from music hall comic

to screen comedian supreme.

      Piecing together the fact, legend, and anecdote found

in myriad items about Chaplin, the biographer would have his

material all at hand.

                                       * * *

       On Modern Times there is abundant discussion and

conjecture. It is recorded that he completed it in thirteen months‘

shooting time wheras he spent twenty-five months

on City Lights.  

      It is noted that he worked from a script for the first time, and

that he still does not talk although his voice is heard.

      His future plans – to star Paulette in a talking picture,

perhaps to ,talk‘ himself but not in his famous character – are

in the newest scrapbook.

                                      * * *

      Chaplin‘s hectic personal life is there, too. His two

marriages – to Mildred Harris and Lita Gray – are recorded

with their dissolutions in divorce, and his court fights

with Lita Grey.

      His rumored secret marriage to Paulette Goddard, his

new leading lady, is there with the denials pf both.“     

      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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