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CHAPLIN STUDIOS WIRED FOR SOUND IN PREPARATION FOR FIRST TALKIE
The motion picture colony is looking forward with considerable anticipation to the new picture Charlie Chaplin is preparing to launch with Paulette Goddard as the star and a surrounding cast of the finest available talent. As yet without a title tentatively called "Production No. 6" —~ it will not only be the comedian-producer's first attempt at a talkie, but the second picture he will make in which he does not appear. Chaplin refuses to give out any information on his latest production, merely announcing thet it will be a comedy-drama with colorful Shanghai, Honolulu and other foreign locales as backgrounds. The Chaplin studios, newly wired for sound, will have the most expert technicians, the latest in camera and talkie equipment, and last, but not least, the personal supervision anc Girection of Chaplin himesit.
She TESTE TE ETE ESE CHAPLIN ACQUIRES FILM RIGHTS
TO ENGLISH NOVEL, "REGENCY"
Charles Chaplin has purchased "Regency," by the English novelist,
D. L. Murray, es the second starring vehicle for Paulette Goddard. The novel is Chaplin's first purchase of another writer's idea, all of his previous pictures having been authored by himself. The story itself presents, in the author's words, "a quadruple portrait of four generations," beginning in 1879, the days of the Prince Regent, afterward George IV, and extending to the present day. Major R. V. C. Bodley, British author, has been signed by Chaplin to prepare the preliminary screen adaptation of "Regency."
SSIS AEE IEE TENE CHAPLIN FILM IS LAUGH SENSATION IN U.S.S.R.
Charlie Chaplin is a prime favorite with the movie fans of the Soviet Union, and his latest production, “Modern Times," has them "rolling in the aisles," reports Kenneth Durant, manager of the New York bureau of TASS, the Russian news agency, who recently returned from the U.S.S.R. Enclosing a copy of "Kino," the foremost motion picture newspaper of the Soviet Union, which featured an article of his on the Chaplin film shortly after its first presentation in lloscow, lr. Durant, in a letter to the New York office of United Artists, writes: "A few weeks after that, I saw 'HModern Times! in an open-air theatre in a small provincial town on the Black Sea coast. It had them rolling in the aisles, even though the Russians are not generally familiar with corn on the cob. Everything else they understood very well, and liked."
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