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C.A. Lejeune, Observer, London, England, Feb. 16, 1936.
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C.A. Lejeune with her son Anthony Lejeune, circa 1931,
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& THE CRUSADE OF COMEDY.
FILMS TO BRING LAUGHTER. (...)
CLAIR‘S WIT
Since coming of sound into cinema only Rene Clair,
of all film directors, seems fully equipped with
the clear sense of social comedy. There is, of course, Chaplin,
whose new picture „Modern Times“ contains what
is emphatically a social argument. But „Modern Times,“
as I have said elsewhere, is a polemic picture.
Under pressure of its subject the common-sense of Chaplin
tends to grow impatient and angry. This is satire,
not comedy, for comedy knows that impatience is in itself
ridiculous. (...)
For we have been sick for years for want of laughter,
and the more we laugh at ourselves, not with the
bitterness of satire, nor the guffaw of slapstick, but with the
blessed commonsense of comedy, the quicker and
more permanent will our recovery be.
C. A. L.
(...) Observer, London, England, Feb. 16, 1936.
C. A. L., Caroline Alice Lejeune.
„A gallant but uncomprehending blunder on the left“
Editorial content. „Films of the Week
(BY C. A. LEJEUNE,)
BLUNDER ON THE LEFT.
Mr. Chaplin‘s new film, Modern Times, now on view
at the Tivoli, was, we are told, ,written by Charlie
Chaplin, directed by Charlie Chaplin, music by Charlie
Chaplin, edited by Charlie Chaplin, produced
by Charlie Chaplin, and starring Charlie Chaplin.‘ We can
readily believe it. We should not be surprised
to learn that the players were made up by Charlie Chaplin,
the sets constructed by Charlie Chaplin, and the
custard pies compounded by Charlie Chaplin, so completely
does the picture bear the stamp of one dominating
and curiously life-scarred mind.“ (...)
„Charlie, the clown, was in his way the symbol and
consoler of the people; Chaplin, the reformer, has
lost touch with the common people, and produced what
is little more than a gallant but uncomprehending
blunder on the left.“
Modern Times world premiere is in New York Feb. 5, 1936
at the Rivoli Theatre.
Rivoli Theatre, Broadway at 49th Street, New York.
Modern Times opens in London Feb. 11, 1936
at the Tivoli Theatre.
Tivoli Theatre, Strand at the corner of John Adam Street, London.
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