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John C. Mosher, New Yorker, New York, February 21, 1931.
The Broadway Parade
(Current Extended Run Attractions)
Picture; Distributor; Theater; Opening Date
Zwei Herzen im 3/4 Takt; Moviegraphs; 55th St. Cinema; Sept. 12
The Devil to Pay; United Artists; Rialto, moved from Gaiety; Dec. 18
Reaching for the Moon; United Artists; Criterion; Dec. 29
Cimarron; RKO; Globe; Jan. 26
Ein Maedel von der Reeperbahn; Talking Pics. Epics; Central; Jan. 30
Trader Horn; M-G-M; Astor; Feb. 3
City Lights; United Artists; Geo. M. Cohan; Feb. 6
Millie; RKO; Mayfair; Feb. 6
Sit Tight; Warner Bros.; Winter Garden; Feb. 17
Rango; Paramount; Rivoli; Feb. 18
Comrades of 1918; Forenfilm; Cameo; Feb. 19
Pagliacci; Audio Cinema; Central Park; Feb. 20
(...) Film Daily, Feb. 24, 1931
& The Broadway Parade
(Current Extended Run Attractions)
Picture; Distributor; Theater; Opening Date
Zwei Herzen im 3/4 Takt; Moviegraphs; 55th St. Cinema; Sept. 12
The Devil to Pay; United Artists; Rialto, moved from Gaiety; Dec. 18
Reaching for the Moon; United Artists; Criterion; Dec. 29
Cimarron; RKO; Globe; Jan. 26
Trader Horn; M-G-M; Astor; Feb. 3
City Lights; United Artists; Geo. M. Cohan; Feb. 6
Millie; RKO; Mayfair; Feb. 6
Sit Tight; Warner Bros.; Winter Garden; Feb. 17
Rango; Paramount; Rivoli; Feb. 18
Comrades of 1918; Forenfilm; Cameo; Feb. 19
La Nuit Est A Nous; Little Carnegie Playhouse; Cameo; Feb. 19
Pagliacci; Audio Cinema; Central Park; Feb. 20
Ten Nights in a Bar-room; L. E. Goetz; Central; Feb. 27
(...) Film Daily, March 2, 1931
„A quality of charm“
Editorial content. „THE CURRENT CINEMA
Notes on a Comedian
THERE was a bit of reason for apprehension,
I think, that the Chaplin picture might not
turn out as it has; that, in other words, something might
have happened to Mr. Chaplin, during his long
retirement, to alter the character of his talents. Occasionally,
you know, strange and unfortunate things occur
to persons of such acclaimed place when they settle back
for a while to enjoy their triumphs. Their is the
constant headiness, anyhow, of the great public‘s applause,
and also so many excited little articles appear
in various select journals spiced richly with such terms
as ,genius‘ and ,artist‘ that the reading of them
may cast a sad spell over the subject. To be sure such
journals have a small circulation as a rule, yet
I suspect that the persons so dealt with usually contrive
to unearth them and ponder on their arguments.
The results may be disastrous. There grows an inclination
to be more dramatically an artist, one with a mission,
a significant message, an interpretation, and that aspiration
has killed many a delightful talent. In the case
of City Lights there was even something ominous about
the advance reports that it contained an attack
upon the talkies, for of course to movie people the destiny
of the talkies is a cosmic question. It was possible
that that was only one of the cosmic elements to be disposed
of. It is therefore with all the relief possible, with
a sense of a new appreciation of Mr. Chaplin himself,
that we find his new movie on the order of his
others, perhaps a little better than any of them, anyhow
with the old, familiar, welcome Charlie.
THE whole impression the picture gives is one
not often – oh, very seldom – found in the
movies; an indefinable impression perhaps best described
as a quality of charm.“ (...) „J. C. M.“
J. C. M. is John Chapin Mosher.
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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City Lights 1930 1931 1932 next previous
