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Variety, New York, February 19, 1936.

Calling ALL CARS! Calling ALL CARS!

      Reports from New York City, Los Angeles, Miami,

Philadelphia, Boston and London urge us to call

out the riot squads in advance for the Chaplin openings on Feb.

21st in the following cities:

      Dayton, O.   Toledo, O.   Richmond, Va. Norfolks, 

Va.  Houston, Tex.   Atlanta, Ga.   New Orleans,

La.   Nashville, Tenn.   Akron, O.   Memphis, Tenn.

Louisville, Ky.   Canton, O.   Cleveland, O.

Baltimore, Md.

      Note: Unprecedented mobs of people have turned every

Chaplin opening into a riot that got beyond the control

of inadequate police facilities! In every case emergency squads

were called out to hold back the surging tide of eager

patrons and onlookers alike. Be sure you are protected. Get

the full cooperation of your local police force before

you open this picture.

      Charlie Chaplin in MODERN TIMES (...)

      Released thru United Artists.

(...) Motion Picture Herald, Feb. 22, 1936.

      Four photos, two drawings.

& RADIO PROGRAM (...)

      WNEW. Premiere of Charlie Chaplin‘s „Modern Times.“

      Alexander Woollcott; Will Hays; Douglas Fairbanks;

      Edward G. Robinson; others.

(...) Daily News, New York, Feb. 5, 1936

& WEDNESDAY‘S OUTSTANDING RADIO FEATURES (...)

      8:00 P. M. – WNEW. Premiere of Charlie Chaplin‘s

      „Modern Times“

(...) New York Times, Feb. 5, 1936

& HIGH LIGHTS

      8:30 p. m. – KMTR. Chaplin picture premiere.

(...) Los Angeles Times, Feb. 12, 1936

& On his first broadcast Charles Chaplin,

although a film veteran, was plenty frightened by the microphone,

according to Les Weinrott, who arranged the broadcast

and is now author and director of WGN‘s Grandstand Thrills...

Chaplin‘s hand shook so they had to paste the script

onto cardboard to keep the noise out of the microphone

(...) Radio Mirror, New York, April 1936

„Charlie Chaplin spoke over KMTR, Los Angeles“

Editorial content. „Inside Stuff – Radio“ (...)

      „Charlie Chaplin spoke over KMTR, Los Angeles, from

the fore-court of the Chinese theatre, Hollywood,

on the night his picture, Modern Times, opened. United Artists

lost a good publicity opportunity for a network hook-up

but could not guarantee Chaplin‘s appearance, and without

such a guarantee webs wouldn‘t stand by. Ed Fisher,

former New York radio editor and station exec, connected

with the Chinese opening.

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