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Monroe Lathrop, Los Angeles Evening Express, Feb. 21, 1921.

TOWARD THE ULTIMATE (title inside drawing)

      The National Art Theatre of The Screen

      THE AMBASSADOR THEATRE

Cover of 16-page art folder as souvenir of Ambassador opening.

The panel insert is in several colors, blue predominating.

(...) First National Franchise, March 1, 1921

„Surely destined to achieve a great popularity“

Editorial content. „Plays, Films“ (...)

      „,The Kid‘

      Charlie Chaplin‘s New Comedy Has Premiere

      By MONROE LATHROP

      PROBABLY no other motion picture‘s advent has ever

been preceded by such heraldry and popular

anticipation as Charlie Chaplin‘s comedy, The Kid. The

comedian‘s long absence from the screen as a

result of the impasse between him and the First National

organization and the recent legal actions in which

he was concerned that for a time threatened to involve

this particular film property combined to usher

it into formal being with an extraordinary public interest.“ (...)

      „The kid, Master Jackie Coogan, is a precocious

and promising thespian. His actions are so natural and unforced

and his personality is so charming that he dominates

some of the scenes, and Chaplin has been generous in letting

him have full swing. The juvenile appeal is so strong

that it largely offsets the things Chaplin takes out of his old

bag of tricks. As a whole The Kid will vastly entertain

the majority of picture fans, and is surely destined to achieve

a great popularity.“ (...)

     Ambassador Theatre, 3400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.

      The Kid is pre-released by First National

      in Los Angeles February 19, 1921.

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