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Motion Picture Herald, New York, November 9, 1940.

HERE I AM – FLAT ON MY FANCY PANTS

      The Great Dictator of the Double Cross (...)

Charlie Chaplin in THE GREAT DICTATOR (...)

      Carthay Circle   United Artists

(...) Ad, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 1940

& A group of forty-eight children, including twenty English,

German and Austrian refugees, will attend a private

screening of Charlie Chaplin‘s „The Great Dictator“ this

afternoon at 729 Seventh Avenue. The screening

was arranged by the Young Reviewers of the National Board

of Review of Motion Pictures.

(...) Douglas W. Churchill, Hollywood, Calif., to the New York

Times, Oct. 28, 1940

& POSTER(S) Twenty-four Sheet. Non-rental. Price $2.40.

Special rates for quantities.

(...) The Great Dictator Pressbook, 1940, United Artists collection

at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

& Chaplin‘s previous hits have been pearls of assorted humor

strung on a thread of personality – the personality

of a ineffectual half-pathetic, wholly sympathetic little comedian.

„The Great Dictator“ has enough pearls but no thread.

(...) Time Magazine quoted in Motion Picture Daily, Nov. 8, 1940

„Attended by capacity crowds“

Editorial content. „ADVANCED ADMISSION

      TREND GROWS“ (...)

      „The Dictator at $5.50 Top

      Charles Chaplin‘s The Great Dictator, will have its premiere

at the Carthay Circle, Los Angeles, November 14th, with

tickets priced at $5.50 top. Prices for regular run following the

opening will be $1.65 evenings and $1.10 matinees.

      The dual premiere of the picture at the Roosevelt and

Apollo Theatres, Chicago, last Thursday, October

31st, was attended by capacity crowds. B & K. executives

anticipate a long run for the film in the Loop theatres.

      The management of the Aldine, Philadelphia, where The

Great Dictator, is playing at advanced admission prices,

has inaugurated early Saturday morning shows for children,

priced at 25 cents, tax included. The theatre opens

at 8:30 A. M., a half hour earlier than usual. Matinee scale

is 75 cents, with evening scale $1.14 for all, children

included.“ (...)

Redaktioneller Inhalt

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