The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-06
CHAPLIN GIVEN !
 KINDLY WORDS
Famous Screen Stars Voice Heard For First Tine From Movie Screen
BY GEORGE N. BEALE


 CUnissd Prsus Staff Correspondentl
 New York, February 6 - (Up)- Charlie Chaplln's voice came from the screen for the first time last night in . riotous world premier ot smodern times," his first picture in five years.
 The finn received . stirring ova- ton from c first night crowd studded with headline names. Scenes outside the R!yol theater rivaled Hollywood's famous preFaieres.
 Extra police were necessary to handle Q stubborn crowd that gath. cred at 4eth and Broadway to look upon the tcp.hated actors and CT. mine clad actresses who paid eD.1O each to see the screens first
 start was Delayed
 The start was held up more than 90 minutes while the evening -clad ticket holders were trarnpied while trying to got inside. Police used night.sticks before getting the crowd under control.
 But Chaplin's voice = he dis. played it, but not much.
 1t came clear and pleasant, in Q series of songs in . cafe scene where he was . singing waiter. For the purposes of the film and Chap. lin comedy, he forget his lines and merely poured forth uiirecognizable words to Q bright and airy tune. This particular scene brought him the best hand Of the evening.
 The picture was in the nature of satire on the machine age, with Chaplin . confused figure in mod- ern fife.
 Did Many Things
 He turned bolts in Q factory un- til he went crazy. He picked up . red warning flag to restore 1t to an oil truck and was arrested as Q communist. Out of jail, he unwit' tingiy got mixed up with demon. strating strikers and was agaif, fetted by police.
 The lack of voices and the sud. den appearance Of title lines rather stunned an audience long accus- toned to talking films.
 Chapi!n's superb pantcmine would carry the picture quickly through . sequence to where it could no longer continue without explana. ton. Then suddenly Q title would hit the screen.
 "ehe stole . loaf of break" c title would explain the store-keeper was saying.
 Chaplin would answer in the pic. ture, then the title would follow:.-
 No, she didn't steal It." the title would tell the audience, T did'"
 Paulette Goddard There
 The picture marked the first stayring effort of Paulette Goddard. Msny times she has been runnored married to Chaplin. She pleased the audience immensely, but to sec her talk and not hear the words came as Q bit of Q shock to 6 world long gone in talking pictures.
 Among those who fought their way into the theater with the aid of police and through the flashes of scores of photographers were I'd. ward c. Robinson, Gloria Swanson, Evelyn Lave, Corinne Griffith and Eddie Cantor.
 The critics dealt kindly with Chaplin.
 "sModern times has still the sarae old Charlie" said Frank 8. Nug' gent of tho New York Times, "the iovable little fellow whose hands and feet end frankish eyebrows can beat an irresistible tattoo upon an audiences funnybone or hold N still, taut beneath the spell of hu' man tragedy"
 Richard Watts, Jr., of the New York Herald-T Tribune said: For the fun.lovers, 1t (fnodern timeO, present the great Chaplin in'a piece or slapstick hilarity which, if It IS not quite . worthy successor to 'City Lights The Pilgrim, and shoulder Arms, is still one of the great triumphs of hearty motion picture rowdiness. For the philosopher 1t provides amid It's frantic physical insanity, a sardonic contemplation of current events, done from 6 surprisingly direct, fl Intermittent, leftist viewpoint"