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Terry Ramsaye, Motion Picture Herald, N. Y., December 14, 1935.

Charlie Chaplin talks about Paulette Goddard (...) All the screen

stars are helping the great cause by furnishing entertainment for the service men and Paulette Goddard is no exception. (...)

Paulette is shown in front of a loud-speaker doing her bit at the American Theatre Wing Stage Door Canteen.

(...) Photo, Screenland, Aug. 1942, detail

& Rivoli, exterior by day, electric sign Eddie Cantor

„Whoopee,“ New York, 1930

& Rivoli, exterior by day, marquee „The Grapes of Wrath,“

New York, 1940, Cinema Treasures

„This brought heavy applause from Miss Goddard“

Editorial content. „WELLS SURE HIS AIM NOT

      BRITISH FILM DOMINANCE

      Terry Ramsay, in Hollywood, interviews Britain‘s ,H. G.‘

and suggests a possible motive for his enthusiastic stay among

the studios of America

      by TERRY RAMSAYE

      The first man to write a motion picture story is in Hollywood

writing, again, motion picture stories, making notes, planning

revolutions in the art that he was one of the first to discover – just

forty years ago.

      This man is Mr. H. G. Wells, the British Mr. Wells, doing 

a job for Britain.“ (...)

      „Mr. Wells‘ host in Hollywood, for his sojourn of exploration,

is Mr. Charles Chaplin. The social chatelaine of Mr. Wells‘

movements, his comings and goings and engagements is the

somewhat pixie Miss Paulette Goddard. And one way

fancy, too, that Mr. Wells‘ is learning about movies, too, from

Anita Loos, who wrote her first script for Biograph with

a lipstick in a roadshow dressing room, about the year Miss Mary

Pickford began, and graduated into literary rank with

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes half a decade before sound came in.

      The week-end this is written Mr. Wells is, under the

guidance of these able mentors, extending his researches into

the nature of things cinema to the region of Palm Springs

on the desert.

      Across the table, with Miss Goddard presiding, even

prompting, encouraging, Mr. Wells chatted the other day about

his adventures in a new form of script – he‘s a contract

script writer for a year or such a matter, for Alexander Korda,

you remember.“ (...)

      „The English, you know, are dreadfully undramatic,

untheatrical. They are so terrifically given to understatement

and repression.

      ,Why, you know, if an English couple comes to a crises,

the break is likely to be something like this: He says,

,My dear, we are getting along badly, we shall have to separate.

I shall see my solicitors and make arrangements.‘ Now

that,‘ urged Mr. Wells, ,is very undramatic.‘

      ,That being the case,‘ I observed, ,how do you explain

the rather large successes of British leading men in the American

theatre and on the screen?‘

      ,That,‘ answered Mr. Wells, ,is because their cold

demeanor forces the charming ladies playing opposite to act.‘

     This brought heavy applause from Miss Goddard,

who is obviously a charming audience for Mr. Wells.“ (...)

      Modern Times world premiere is in New York Feb. 5, 1936

      at the Rivoli Theatre.

      Rivoli Theatre, Broadway at 49th Street, New York.

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