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Guardian, Manchester, England, February 14, 1936.

„MODERN TIMES“ HAS MODERN IDEAS

      Charlie Chaplin Sings in his New Film

                                                   LONDON, TUESDAY.

      To-night, for the first time since „The Gold Rush,“

the shrugging figure of Charlie Chaplin will again skip across

the screen of the Tivoli. Time passes, and it may have

been thought that he would no longer seem the same tramp.

But he is. In this film he is literally a tramp among

tramps, for „Modern Times“ surrounds him with unemployed,

strikers, and dockside down-and-outs.“ (...)

      „It is also noticeable that sets, lighting, and photography

are in accord with modern ideas. As to Chaplin,

he seems in this film to be enjoying himself. There are many

sequences which will become famous. The

philosophy is evident. It is clear that Chaplin‘s answer

to modern times is that if the individual does  not

conform he is taken away in a van to prison or to hospital.

But what makes „Modern Times“ up to date is not its

message but its name. The „gags“ are some of Chaplin‘s best,

and they are performed with inimitable gesture.      R. H.

(...) Guardian, Manchester, England, Feb. 12, 1936

& CHAPLIN‘S NEW FILM

      50 Police Control Crowd

      Charlie Chaplin‘s new film, „Modern Times,“ was shown

for the first time in England at the Tivoli, London,

last night, and nearly an hour before the show began crowds

had gathered about the cinema to watch the arrival

of notabilities. Fifty police officers were on duty. All the 3,000

seats in the building had been booked.

      There was soon a continual stream of cars and taxis

bringing well-known people to the theatre. Many

of cars which approached from the West End were diverted

along Villiers Street and John Street behind the Tivoli

to avoid the turning in the Strand, but nevertheless at one

time there was a traffic block stretching from

the theatre right across the top of Trafalgar Square.

      Special measures were taken by the police

to deal with traffic outside the theatre when the presentation

of the film ended.

(...) Guardian, Manchester, England, Feb. 12, 1936

     

„Mr. Charlie Chaplin‘s jesting comment“

Editorial content. „CHARLIE CHAPLIN‘S JOKE

      ,The manager urged me to come because he said the

picture alone was not worth the price of the seats.‘

Such was Mr. Charlie Chaplin‘s jesting comment when

he made one of the company of two thousand

film celebrities who attended the Hollywood première

of Modern Times. The seats cost five and a half

dollars (approximately 22s.).“ 

      Modern Times world premiere is in New York Feb. 5, 1936

      at the Rivoli Theatre.

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

      Modern Times opens in London Feb. 11, 1936

      at the Tivoli Theatre.

      Tivoli Theatre, Strand at the corner of John Adam Street, London.

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