Tuesday, February 11th: Modern Times premiered at the Tivoli in London.
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| Workmen outside the Tivoli put the finishing touches on a neon sign before the premiere. |
From
The New York Times:
After five years, London film critics found Charlie Chaplin as 'funny as ever" today when 'Modern Times received its premiere at the Adelphi Theater [sic]. Fifty policemen controlled the crowd rushing for seats at $5 apiece.
Hannon Swaffer in the Daily Herald writes:
Countless millions will thank Chaplin again for making them laugh. Many millions of those will also thank him for making some of the others think.
The Evening News says:
There never has been a Chaplin film so full of notions and each done as only a great artist of pantomime like Chaplin could do it. (NYT, Feb. 12, 1936)
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| Tennis champion Fred Perry and actress Helen Vinson at the London premiere. |
In the news 80 years ago this week:
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| Macon Telegraph, Feb. 9, 1936 |
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb. 12, 1936
(Paulette must have attended a critics' preview) |
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| Salt Lake Tribune, feb. 9, 1936 |
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| Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 10, 1936 |
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| New York Times, Feb. 13, 1936 |
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| Altoona Tribune, Feb. 10, 1936 |
In tomorrow's installment of
"Day By Day: 1936": Charlie & Paulette attend the Hollywood premiere of
Modern Times.
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