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Rudolf Arnheim, Berliner Tageblatt, Berlin, Dtl., Jan. 11, 1932.
European The Great Dictator Poster
with Chaplin as barber
& Chaplin Cuts His Own Hair;
Secret Is Out
Movie Star Makes Slip and Then Explains
Advantages of Doing Own Work
Los Angeles, Nov. 7. – (AP) – A barber shop
to Charlie Chaplin is as familiar as J. P. Morgan‘s private office
is to a book agent.
Charlie cuts his own hair.
He says so himself. He just can‘t manage to sit still long
enough for the professional tonsorial ministrations.
The secret came out the other night over at the Cocoanut
Grove.
Charlie joined a group of friends at a table, his curley
ringlets severely mowed and massacred.
„What happened?“ the group asked.
Charlie run a nervous slim hand over what remained
of his shock of iron-grey hair and flashed one of those furtive half
shy smiles of his.
„Cut it a little too close this morning,“ he said. „You know
I always trim my own hair.“
Everyone laughed. Charlie blushed.
„No really, I do cut my own,“ he protested. „Been doing
it for years. I just can‘t stand a barber shop.“
„Not that I have anything against barbers. But I am too
nervous to sit so long. I hate to have a barber fussing
around me. Upsets me completely and spoils the whole day.
„And then, you know, they always talk. Sometimes
they breathe into your nostrils. If they only didn‘t talk at you
so much it might be better. But you know the insidious
thing about garlic. Even your best friend can tell when you have
eaten it.“
(…) Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Florida, Nov. 8, 1925.
Fourteen years later, in „The Great Dictator,“
Chaplin is a barber. He has to. To play opposite Hynkel
alias Hitler.
& Rudolf Arnheim (photo), undated, John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
„Chaplin als Erzieher“
Editorial content.
Chaplin as Educator, Berliner Tageblatt,
Berlin, January 11, 1932.
See also Rudolf Arnheim, Anti-Fascist Satire,
Films, New York, Winter 1940.
This review of The Great Dictator is the first publication
of Rudolf Arnheim after his arrival in the US-exile.
Redaktioneller Inhalt. „Chaplin als Erzieher“ (...)
„Wer Hitlern ins Gesicht blickt, dem muss Charlie Chaplin
einfallen. Eine semitische Reminiszenz, gewiss,
aber ist daran der Beschauer schuld? Liegt nicht eine
gewisse Tragik darin, dass der Bart des Gebieters
für vorschriftsmässig blonde Germanen ungeeignet ist?
Der wallende blonde Vollbart – angepflanzt nach
dem Grundsatz: Grosser Umsatz, kleiner Nutzen – macht
durch seine Ausdehnung wett, dass er von der Farbe
der Gesichtshaut allzuwenig absticht. Das Leukoplastbärtchen
aber ist nur als kontrastierender Farbfleck möglich.
Der Hölle ein willkommener Spott und peinlich selbst dem
lieben Gott. Doch kehren wir zu Chaplin zurück.
Wie das Hakenkreuz von den Orientalen, so stammt
die Bartfrisur des Dritten Reiches von Chaplin.“ (...)
Berliner Tageblatt, Januar 11, 1932.
Siehe auch Rudolf Arnheim, Anti-Fascist Satire,
Films, New York, Winter 1940.
Diese Besprechung von The Great Dictator ist die
erste Publikation von Rudolf Arnheim nach seiner Ankunft
im US-amerikanischen Exil.
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