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Alma Whitaker/Rosalie Lieberman, Screenland, N. Y., April 1931.

City Lights – If Mr. Chaplin spent a million

and a half to produce this picture we think he was cheated.

(...) Photo, Movies, April 1931

„Confirm or break the faith“

Editorial content. „The Talkie Teetotalers!

      The new ,silent‘ film, City Lights, will test the pull

      of talking pictures. Read the views of two famous artists

      still true to pantomime – Chaplin and Lillian Gish

      By Alma Whitaker

      Charlie insists that pantomime, his pantomime,

will survive long after the public has tired of talkies. City Lights

will confirm or break the faith.“ (...)

      By Rosalie Lieberman

      The talkies have become the Pied Piper of Hollywood.

They made a few mechanical noises and the people

of the movies were immediatly charmed. They made some

bigger and more elaborate noises and the people

of the stage, practically en masse, followed. But one sensitive

player didn‘t hear these sounds as music. Charlie

Chaplin was not charmed.“ (...)

  

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