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Motion Picture Herald, New York, August 25, 1934.

Paulette Goddard.

(...) Photo, AP, Kansas City Star, Kansas City,

Missouri, Aug. 11, 1934

& NEW CHAPLIN FILM SOON

      WORK ON „STREET WAIF“ WILL

      START IN SEPTEMBER.

      Paulette Goddard, Linked in Romance With the Comedian,

      Will Be Leading Woman in the Production.

      (By the Associated Press.)

      HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11. – With baggy trousers, derby,

mustache, cane and other familiar accessories, Charlie

Chaplin expects to begin work the first week in September

on his next picture, „Street Waif.“

      It will be another speechless film with music and „unusual

but pleasing“ sound effects.

      THE SCENARIO IS READY.

      Chaplin has completed the scenario, which will be a

comedy-drama about the industrial section of a big

city, with possibly a few riots and a strike thrown in for

„modern atmosphere.“

      Alfred Reeves, Chaplin‘s manager, said it was planned

to finish the picture so it could be released in January

through United Artists. Although this would be a record time

for a Chaplin picture – his others have taken about

two years each – his manager explained that heretofore

the scenario had been written and the sets made

as they went.

      In „City Lights,“ his last picture, Chaplin shot 300,000

feet of film, and then cut and selected until he had the desired

8,000 feet for the production.

      The comedian has spent more time in preparation

for the forthcoming film than he has for any other,

and all the scenes are planned, Reeves said. Consequently,

he expects to complete the picture in four months.

      MISS GODDARD‘S FIRST BIG ROLE.

      The „waif“ of the picture will be Paulette Goddard,

just turned 21. It will be her first big role. She has

appeared in Hal Roach comedies and in Samuel Goldwyn‘s

„Kid from Spain“ as a blond chorus girl. But since

she was „discovered“ by Chaplin and chosen for the lead,

she has let her hair return to its natural dark brown.

      The names of Chaplin and Miss Goddard have been

linked in romance often, friends even going so far

as to say they already are married. Other friends, however,

say the weeding day, if any, will be after „Street Waif“

is completed. Chaplin admits the romance, but declines

to comment further.

      Although the romance is on, Reeves hastened to add

that Chaplin in the forthcoming production will aid

the „waif“ after she is left homeless, and together they will

go through comedy situations, but the picture will end

with Charlie going on alone.

(...) Kansas City Star, Kansas City,

Missouri, Aug. 11, 1934.

      „Modern Times“ will end with both going on together.

„Less publicity pressure than any other player of the screen“

Editorial content. „PUBLICITY

      QUITE a hullabaloo seems to have been had in Hollywood

on the issues between the interests of the motion picture

and the fan press, starting with a proposal and project to subject

to studio approval all star interviews and ending

in a glad-hand meeting in which the writing gleaners of fan

pabulum promised to be ,constructive,‘ etc.

      Stories about motion picture players, written for the

entertainment of the readers of the movie columns

of the daily press and for the fan magazines are just as definitely merchandise as the pictures they make

on Hollywood‘s stages.

      The fan press, with its army of writers and reporters,

gathers its editorial wares for the cost of collection even as beach

combers and fishermen. The fan press sells personalities

on the printed page with just as definite an amusement policy

as that of the picture makers.

      A picture ,name‘  is the property of the bearer,

a property which is leased or rented to the producer under

contract.“ (...)

      „Speaking of publicity, one is to be reminded of the

interesting case of Miss Maud Adams, who contrived to be one

of the greatest stars of the American stage by the release

of only one photograph, no interviews, and the expedient of being

seen nowhere save on the stage. Mr. Charles Chaplin,

in relation to the reach of his fame, was aided by less publicity

pressure than any other player of the screen.“ (...)

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