Chaplin's latest and best movie program

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/85a50b97f1c9869cc3268d0b4ccd4a88

Title

Chaplin's latest and best movie program

Creator

Chaplin, Charlie
Rogers, Will
Arlen, Richard
Wray, Fay

Date

1931

Description

Original program for news of the week of April 19, 1931 at the Strand Theatre in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The cover features an announcement about Charlie Chaplin’s film, City Lights.
The second page includes an advertisement for the April 19-21 showings of City Lights. Charlie Chaplin stars in this romantic comedy about “that forlorn figure with the baggy trousers.”
Page three features two film advertisements. Beau Ideal is scheduled for April 22. Frank McCormick, Ralph Forbes, and Lester Vail star in this war drama about an American who joins the French Foreign Legion. The second advertisement is for the April 23 and 24 screenings of A Connecticut Yankee. Will Rogers, William Farnum, and Frank Albertson star in this romantic comedy.
The final page of the program includes an advertisement for the April 25 showing of The Conquering Horde. Richard Arlen and Fay Wray co-star in this drama filled with “laughs knitted into thrilling romance of the west.” This page also includes an announcement about theatre’s “best pictures, the best in sound, [and] the best of everything.”
Currently not on view

Subject

Motion pictures
Wray, Fay
Arlen, Richard
Movie
Entertainment, Film
Rogers, Will
Movie Collection
Chaplin, Charlie

Source

Smithsonian Institution

Relation

http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-AHB2016q007977&max=150

Type

image

References

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID%3Anmah_1759486&repo=DPLA

Citation

Chaplin, Charlie et al., “Chaplin's latest and best movie program,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 9, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/15003.

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