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Motion Picture Daily, New York, August 23, 1934.

Paulette Goddard, Charles Chaplin, undated

& THE COMING YEAR will be a year of specialization, calling

for individual effort both in the production of motion

pictures and in their exhibition. (...) JOSEPH M. SCHENCK

(...) Photo Ad, Film Daily, June 26, 1931

& To Work!

      Comedian Up To Neck In Plans For Number Five

      – Secrecy Guards Theme – Silence Is Golden

      To Chaplin, On the Screen And Off.

      By Herman J. Bernfeld.

      NUMBER FIVE is in preparation.

      And that doesn‘t mean that some chemist is working

on a formula of a concoction of a deadly gas with

which to destroy the populations of cities not that a shipyard

or airplane factory has some gigantic project under

construction; nor does this simple sentence mean that

another locomotive is being build, engineers intent

on surpassing the hundred-miles-an-hour speed already

attained by a train.

      Number Five isn‘t the number of „takes“ made

of a troublesome scene by a worried director

in Hollywood, but it is the label given to the new Charlie

Chaplin photoplay, now in early stages

of production.

      Charlie Chaplin‘s activities make news. And it is with

a great deal of interest and enthusiasm that his

public will greet his latest major effort. The few statements

issued by Chaplin‘s co-workers are as full of news

as the tentative title of Chaplin‘s film. It is known that the

little comedian is intent on his plans and is giving

more attention to preliminary writing and direction that

is his usual wont. That something unusual will be

forthcoming is taken for granted.

      It is known that Chaplin‘s new leading lady will be

Paulette Goddard; that again Chaplin‘s work will

utilize sound effects, but will be wordless; that pantomime

will be stressed.

      Number Five is destined to be a colorful affair,

for the master of comedy and pathos has

selected Willy Pogany, eminent artist and designer,

to work out the blue prints of the background.

(...) Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1934

& U. A. Board in First Huddle in 3 Years (...)

      It was learned that following his next film Chaplin will

direct one picture, in which he will not appear.

(...) Motion Picture Daily, Sep. 9, 1934

„All the company‘s owners“

Editorial content. „U. A. Meeting Called

      HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22 – A meeting will be held here

this week by Joseph M. Schenck, president of United

Artists, with all the company‘s owners, consisting of himself,

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin

and Samuel Goldwyn.

      –––

      Joseph Moskowitz, vice-president of United Artists,

leaves here for Hollywood tonight. The length of his stay will

depend upon conditions on the coast, he said.“

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