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Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri, September 8, 1940.

Sidney Chaplin (16mm-Home Movie), The Making of The Great

Dictator, Los Angeles 1939, scenes in color

„Hollywood‘s biggest question mark at the moment“

Editorial content. „Chaplin‘s Humor Speaks

      Against ,The Great Dictator‘

      IT is said one reason Americans were slow in taking

Adolf Hitler seriously was that he had a mustache

like Charlie Chaplin‘s. By now, however, Hitler no longer

is funny. No one is more aware of that fact than

Charles Spencer Chaplin, whose hard-hitting satire, The

Great Dictator, is at last ready for the screen after

long months of work behind locked doors. The film is the first

in which Chaplin‘s voice is heard, and the public‘s

reaction to the satire is Hollywood‘s biggest question mark

at the moment. Highlights from The Great Dictator

in which Chaplin plays both the title role and the part of a

humble barber, are shown on this page.“

      Nine photos.

     The Great Dictator world premiere is in New York Oct. 15, 1940

      at the Capitol and Astor Theatres.

      Capitol Theatre, 1645 Broadway (at 51st Street), New York. 

      Astor Theatre, 1531 Broadway (at 45th Street), New York.

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