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Show Chaplin'$ "Kid" Cost Money to Show Due to ths high cost of Charles Chaplin's Chap-lin's great photoplay comedy seneatlon. 'The Kid." which Is today ths talk of ths nation, the management of the American theatre announces that It will be under Imperative obligation to slightly Increase admlselon prices during dur-ing the presentation of thla masterpiece commencing flunday. March 20. While It Is against the established policy of ths American to Increnae prices for any particular production, circumstances over which the theatre haa no control make It necessary In the eaa of "The Kid Thia production la costing mors In film rental than any other picture ever exhibited at the American theatre. It coet in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 1. 00.000 to produce, and but a few months ajro rtrjit National I Ploture Inc.. were compelled to pay Chaplin $ftfl0.O additional to his con- i traot to get poaaettfeon of the film Ths fnremoM critic. In the countrv have pla-e4 -The Kid" among the half dosen heat plcturea ,nf the day. A malortty of them hv ranked '"The Kid" flrat. and among thee stands the. national board of rsvlsw of moving? pictures. This picture broke all' re-cords for Now York when In four days It took In 4Mlfl at ths Strand theatre a hones of 100 Beat a It played at -& cents admleleon. I Hiring Its two weeks' run It required 100 policemen to handle han-dle ths evening; crowds and about twenty officers were on duty during the afternoon a. Without this service It would have boon lmposslbis to handle han-dle ths crowds. Announcement of ths admission pries for "The Kid" will be pubhahed within-a within-a few- daya. The management Intends lt'J''2H |