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Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, March 8, 1931.

Chaplin‘s Beverly Wilshire Cigar Does the background in this

image look familiar? It should! The Beverly Wilshire

is part of many movie sets including this one: „City Lights“ starring Charlie Chaplin, Historic Beverly Wilshire Photos

& BERLIN THRONGS GO

      WILD OVER CHAPLIN

      Cry „Komm Heraus“ Until

      He Appears on Balcony

      Mounted Police Finally Disperse

      Crowd Demanding Speech

      Berlin, March 9 (A. P.) – Crowds jostled in the snowy

streets today for a glimpse of Charlie Chaplin as the

film clown came to Berlin to attend the German opening of his

new motion picture.

      Hundreds packed the railway station to greet him, and

hundreds more gathered outside his hotel and chanted,

„Charlie, komm heraus“ until he finally went to the balcony and

responded with a smiling „Nein.“ Then mounted police

dispersed the crowd, whose chanting „Sprech Chor“ for Chaplin sounded too much like the sing-song political shouts

of the Hitlerites.

(...) Boston Globe/AP, Boston, Massachusetts, March 10, 1931

„Rise, Sir Charles!“

Editorial content. „,Sir Charlie Chaplin‘

      THE RECEPTION given Charlie Chaplin in London

naturally astounds the odd genius who once nearly

starved trying to gain a foothold on the English stage. He is

now taken seriously as a great artist and overwhelmed

with an affection that belies the traditional coldness of Britons.

Rich and poor, high and low, join to honor him.

      Never has the universality of his appeal been more

strikingly shown. Beggars on the street throng

around him and peers of the realm scramble for invitations

to dine in his company. Bernard Shaw, himself

a clown of parts, and an arbiter of British intellect and

talent, is proud to sit by Charlie‘s side.

      It is all very grand, and flattering to a country which has

come to regard Chaplin as peculiarly its own. Our

proprietary pride, however, is jolted by the discovery that

Charlie is not regarded in England as American

at all, but still an Englishman. And democratic Americans

are flabbergasted – as Charlie himself must have

been – by news of the campaign in the London press to confer

knighthood on him.

      Imagine the little tramp bowing before the King for

the magic touch of the royal sword, and hearing the words: ,Rise,

Sir Charles!‘ That ought to go into his next picture.“

    The London Premiere of City Lights takes place

      at the Dominion February 27, 1931.

      Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London.

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