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Read Kendall, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., Dec. 19, 1934.
Rupert Hughes to Write Titles For Public Rights League Film
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, July 16, 1921, detail
& Charles Chaplin, Rupert Hughes, 1934
& The silver-haired gentleman leaning on the chair is Charles
Spencer Chaplin. Now, does that make you feel old?
Anyway, he has started a new comedy, and Rupert Hughes
is discussing it with him and Paulette Goddard.
(...) Photo, Photoplay, Dec. 1934
& Chaplin Breaks Silence to
Announce That One-Tenth of
His New Film Is Made
By Len G. Shaw
When it comes to enveloping himself in mystery
Charlie Chaplin makes even Greta Garbo appear
like a novice as a practitioner of the fine art of whetting public
curiosity by remaining silent. In the case of both these
cinema celebrities it has proved to be superior showmanship.
You have probably read less about Chaplin recently
than has been printed about almost any other Hollywood
player of consequence, in spite of the fact that the
cameras began grinding on his new picture the middle of
September.
With three months gone, Chaplin‘s press agent breaks
the deep secrecy maintained about the modest
studio where all the Chaplin pictures have been made with
the brief statement that so far only one-tenth as much
film has been shot as was exposed in City Lights. At that
rate you are at liberty to speculate as much as you
like on when the picture will be completed. Chaplin appears
to be the least worried of anybody on this point.
It is a way he has.
However, one important point has been cleared up.
The rumor has persisted that the picture was to
be a satire of some aspects of the New Deal. It is stated
authoritatively that on the contrary it will be just
a comedy, with an industrial and a prison sequence woven
into the story.
(...) Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Michigan,
Dec. 13, 1934
„May speak a few words himself in his new production“
Editorial content. „Around and About
in Hollywood
BY READ KENDALL
All sorts of precedents are being shattered by Charles
Chaplin.
Most important of all – by comparison with past years –
is the fact that Chaplin is making a picture without
first having a title and is shooting from a working script.
Formerly it was his custom first to get a title
and then, in the parlance of films, shoot from the cuff – that
is, without a complete but with a skeleton story
derived from the title.
Chaplin began work on his new picture with Paulette
Goddard last October and it is still known as
Production No. 5, being his fifth feature length comedy.
If he keeps up his present pace and schedule
he will have completed this opus in February of next year.
This, too, will certainly shatter all precedent.
City Lights, his last screen undertaking, was started
on December 27, 1928, and was not finished until
almost two years later, October 23, 1930. This also means
four years elapsed between his last and his current
production, a world tour occupying much of his attention
meanwhile.
Getting back to titles, Chaplin has always been a wizard
at selecting those which are attractive at the box
office. For instance, there were The Circus, Shoulder Arms,
Gold Rush, The Pilgrim, etc.
Three titles for his new picture which were under
consideration, City Waif, The Waif and The
Commonwealth, have been completely discarded, said Alf
Reeves, his business manager, yesterday.
Chaplin is thoroughly pleased with the work of his
new leading lady, Miss Goddard, and is seriously
thinking of starring her in a talkie personally directed by himself.
There is a remote chance Chaplin may speak
a few words himself in his new production and, if so, these
will only be to emphasize his pantomime. As in the
past the picture will be synchronized with music and sound
effects.“
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