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Daily News, New York, February 6, 1936.

For months and months, newspapers, magazines and

nation-wide radio broadcasts have been heralding

the approaching world-premiere of a motion-picture creation

which has won the distinction of being the greatest

entertainment the screen has to offer.

      Charlie Chaplin

      in Modern Times

United Artists

(...) Variety, Jan. 1, 1936

& Tonight

      an event eagerly awaited

      for the past five years

      The World Premiere

      at the Rivoli Theatre, N. Y. of

      Charlie Chaplin

      in Modern Times

Released thru United Artists

(...) Ad, Film Daily, Feb. 5, 1936

& Blue Wall Stops Crowd‘s Big Push

      These patrolmen have their hands full holding back

crowd at opening of Charlie Chaplin‘s new film.

(...) News Photo, Daily News, New York, Feb. 6, 1936

„They couldn‘t move their arms“

Editorial content. „CHAPLIN FILM,

      OPENING RIOT,

      TIES UP B‘WAY

      Three thousand autograph-seekers and celebrity-hunters

ushered in Charlie Chaplin‘s new picture with a riot on Broadway

last night at 9:15.

      Celebrities were manhandled and some of them were

trapped in their arriving cars as a mob of eager youngsters massed

in front of the Rivoli Theatre, 50th St. and Broadway.

      Traffic Held Up.

      Traffic on Broadway was halted for 15 minutes while 100

cops drove back the crowd. Thirty-five of them were called over

from the basketball game at Madison Square Garden.

      One patrolman said he picked up an elderly woman in the

crowd four times before she finally decided the younger element

was too rough, and went home.

      Every couple that stepped out of an auto at the theatre

marquee was promptly surrounded.

      Autograph-seekers pushed books, pads and papers at them.

Women fingered the texture of the dresses worn by those

who attempted to run the gauntlet. The eight police on duty were

caught so tightly they couldn‘t move their arms.

      A riot call was then sent in. Emergency Squads Nos. 3 and

4, as well as a reserve patrolmen from the Garden and

from five stations came charging in. The crowd was pushed

back on its heels and finally driven off both sides

of Broadway.“

     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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