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Motion Picture Herald, New York, February 22, 1936.

Frank S. Nugent, undated, quoteswave.com

& J. Brooks Atkinson at desk with pipe in the New York Times

Drama Department, Jan. 1, 1942, Library of Congress

& Burns Mantle, photo with fountain pen signature on a vintage

album page, Oct. 22, 1928, ebay

„The vast yearnings of the intelligentsia division“

Editorial content. „ESOTERICA

      MUCH the funniest thing about Mr. Charles Chaplin‘s

Modern Times is the distressing and embarrassing situation

in which the more top-lofty critics of the lay press find

themselves. Since the opening of the picture on Broadway

there has been more space devoted to discussion,

defense and apology for prior expressions than has been given

to the picture itself. They are blaming each other and

themselves for not having adequately appreciated the picture

and its nuances of philosophy, social significance,

kinetic artistry.

      All this becomes more important than the subject in hand

because it denotes the vast yearnings of the intelligentsia division

for some movie pabulum of their very own.

      The dramatic critics of the ancient and once honorable

,legitimate‘ stage have been unable to stay their pens with Mr.

Chaplin‘s shadow on Broadway. Mr. Brooks Atkinson

of the New York Times, with apologies to Mr. Frank S. Nugent

for invasion of movie precincts, had to have a say about

Modern Times. Mr. Burns Mantle was moved to set down his

notions, and Mr. John Anderson of the New York Evening

Journal, after recording his enthusiasms, directly upbraided the

movie critics for their lack of intoxication.“ (...)

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