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Lorenzo Turrent Rozas, Living Age, Ruta, Jalapa, Mexico,

reprinted in Evening Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, July 13, 1934

„Set out for the horizon that is growing fainter“

Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin‘s Decline

      By LORENZO TURRENT ROZAS

      (Translated for the Living Age from Ruta, Jalapa, Mexico,

      Communist Literary Monthly)

      SINCE City Lights, the public has responded unfavorably

to Charlie Chaplin and is beginning to censure him

as sentimental, deficient in technique, or stubbornly clinging

to the silent films of the past, whereas only a short

time ago he was treated almost with servility: ,two, three,

four geniuses have illuminated this century – Charlie

Chaplin and . . .‘ Now even Maxim Gorki has criticized him

seriously and with penetration. What is the reason

for this displeasure and censure?“ (...)

      „His fate is inevitable. As in The Circus, he will have to pull

himself together and set out for the horizon that is

growing fainter, the horizon of an epoch that will founder

with him.“

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