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Finding no intoxicant gases in the sugar factory, doctors concluded that the monotonous machines had driven the young women into a mass hysteria, the psychic phenomenon used with striking effect by Charlie Chaplin in his last picture, Modern Times...
United Artists was formed in 1919 by David Wark Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford because they were tired of making money for other producers. One by one, United Artists' founders grew tired of making money for themselves. Director Griffith retired from the company in 1933. U. A.'s other original producers have almost ceased producing pictures in the last five years. Since United Artists stopped making their own pictures, other producers have made pictures for the company to release to exhibitors. Of the producers who release through United Artists, two have bought partnerships...
Price which Producers Goldwyn & Korda will pay onetime Actors Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford was supposed to be $6,000,000. Terms were roughly $1,000,000 in cash, $5,000,000 within 90 days. Producers Goldwyn & Korda will put up $3,000,000 each. Under the old terms, 60% of United Artists' revenue went to Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford even when they made no pictures. Under the new terms, all will go to Producers Goldwyn & Korda but if any of the original members feels like making a picture, United Artists will distribute it. The deal does not affect producers...
Trudi Schoop, the one-of-akind dance comedian, is to appear with her comic ballet at Symphony Hall this Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Often called the "Charlie Chaplin of the Dance", she has made this type of humor a real art and quite in a class by itself. The program has eight different scenes which include the Meyer Home. At the Hairdresser's. At Rehearsal...
...Workers' Dreadnought. Back in New York he became associate editor of The Liberator under Eastman, quarreled with the Reddest of his colleagues, received an office visit from Elinor Wylie, whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly. At Eugen Boissevain's house he met Charlie Chaplin, who was chased one evening from room to room by a determined Harlem female admirer "coo-coo-cooing, just as if she were down home in the bushes." When a long-lost wife showed up, McKay eluded her by going to Russia, got in under a British Communist's endorsement...