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Variety, New York, February 12, 1936.

Modern Times Scenes

& John Anderson

(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, June 12, 1943, detail

& New York Journal Title

(...) New York Journal, Sept. 11, 1938

„Don‘t movie critics ever dance in the street?“

Editorial content. „N. Y. Critics and Chaplin

      John Anderson, dramatic critic of the N. Y. Journal, took

the Manhattan film critics to task their reviews of Charlie

Chaplin‘s Modern Times, which opened at the Rivoli last week.

Prior to enthusiastically praising the picture, Anderson

had the following to say about the film reviewers‘ notices

on the film:

      Probably the nature of movie criticism tends to make

      it more dignified and stately than it is where it concerns its

      older and slightly wrinkled sister, the drama, but I must

      confess, as one who battled his way through an ice-covered

      Broadway to see Mr. Chaplin‘s Modern Times that

      I was disappointed in the notices.

      The boys and girls who went down the aisles for the

      press seemed to be able to hold themselves in.

      Bent, apparently upon damning it with faint praise, all they

      called it was masterpiece. A word isn‘t good. Don‘t

      movie critics ever dance in the street?

      I mean to suggest that the critics did handsomely

      by it in the actual phrases, commas, and periods they

      assembled, but somehow didn‘t bother to capture

      the delirium of the picture.“ (...)

     Modern Times world premiere is in New York Feb. 5, 1936

      at the Rivoli Theatre.

      Rivoli Theatre, Broadway at 49th Street, New York.

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