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Abel Green, Variety, New York, February 4, 1931.
Abel Green
(...) Photo, Broadcasting, Aug. 13, 1945
& Abel Green
(...) Photo, Broadcasting, Sept. 17, 1945
& Abel Green
(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, Dec. 30, 1944
& Los Angeles Theatre, exterior by night
with lights at „City Lights“ opening, Los Angeles, 1931, losangelestheatre.com
& Crowd waiting outside of the Los Angeles Theater
at City Lights World Premiere, Los Angeles 1931
& Los Angeles Theatre, auditorium, Los Angeles, undated
& Real Praise – Hollywood, Feb. 3.
Local picture mag editor, on the radio at the
opening of Chaplin‘s „City Lights,“ announced: „I seen
,City Lights‘ yesterday and it‘s the best thing
Chaplin has ever did.“
(...) Variety, Feb. 4, 1931
„Exceptionally inefficient“
Editorial content. „FILM HOUSE REVIEWS“ (...)
„Los Angeles
(New)
Los Angeles, Jan. 30.
Working on this new 2,000-seater almost until zero hour,
the long-heralded world‘s premiere of Charles Chaplin‘s
City Lights was delayed from New Year‘s Eve, when it was
hoped that the house would be ready until tonight.
As a theatre, the Los Angeles is in a class by itself, being
more elaborate ,below decks‘ than anything else seen
in any other theatre. Its lower floors or lounges monopolize
primary attention for distinction in theatre construction.
Above the lobby entrance, with its grand staircase to the
mezzanine, is the usual cinematic gingerbread, as the
interior mural and other decorative work in the auditorium
proper.“ (...)
„Calling out an even more brilliant audience than
ever before, the milling mob on the outside was likewise
swelled abnormally.“ (...)
„As a pantomimist Chaplin is unique and extraordinary.“
„The stage portion held a ballet with Bonnie
Emmerie and Bobby Burns dueting the special arrangement
of Irving Berlin‘s Little Things in Life. The presentation
was quite mediocre and clashed with the general big timeyness
of the house and feature.
Premiere scale was $10. Chaplin picture is in indef on grind
from 10 a.m. until midnight. Chaplin supposedly getting
50% of the gross. Gumbiner will revise the scale for the ensuing
product. He has Fox and a lot of indies booked in. That
stage show troupe and whoever is staging it are exceptionally
inefficient.
Abel.“
The world premiere of City Lights takes place in Los Angeles
January 30, 1931 at the Los Angeles Theatre.
Los Angeles Theatre, 615 South Broadway (between
6th and 7th Streets), Los Angeles.
City Lights opens in New York February 6, 1931
at the Cohan Theatre.
George M. Cohan Theatre, 1482 Broadway (between
42nd and 43rd Streets), New York.
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