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Walter Monfried, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Nov. 24, 1940.

Corporal Jean Moral, fashion photographer on six-day leave

from the Army, snaps a mannequin beside amusement

posters. French Government considers this propaganda work.

(...) Photo, Life, April 15, 1940

& Paris – Growing anti-Semitism, largely German-instigated, has

forced restaurants like this one on Champs-Elysées

to put bi-lingual printed signs reading „Jews Forbidden.“

(...) Photo, Life, Nov. 4, 1940

& „Murder.Inc.“

      The odd jobs of killing by our eastern gangsters pale into insignificance when compared with the wholesale

butchery of „Murder.Inc.“ in Europe. Wanton slaughter

of defenseless women and children is just plain

murder and high-sounding talk of „military objectives“ is certainly

no alibi.

(...) Caricature, Milwaukee Sentinel, Nov. 6, 1940

& These pictures are from German occupied

Poland, an area from which pictures have become increasingly

rare. They show the ghettos which the Nazi conquerors

have set up for Jewish residents. Behind the eight foot concrete

wall, some 500,000 Jews are to live in Warsaw.

(...) Photo, Milwaukee Journal, Jan. 1, 1941

„An unexpectedly brief stay“

Editorial content. „Dictator‘s Dilemma

      By Walter Monfried

      Of The Journal Staff

      ,The Great Dictator‘ came to town in triumph for an

unexpectedly brief stay. It is pretty well agreed that Charlie

Chaplin made a strong, bold, humorous and altogether unusual

picture. But any hopes that it would rival Gone With the Wind

in popularity have been shattered. The two films had build-ups of

the same intensity and years´ duration. The Civic war picture,

however, was heavy on the romantic side as well as on action. And

you can‘t beat love.

      Quite a number of those who saw The Great Dictator,

including your correspondent, admired it immoderately for all

except a few minutes of dubious sentiment. There were

few who condemned it wholeheartedly, except as to its price scale.

Probably when it comes down to the plain people‘s prices

it will attract the multitudes.“ (...)

     Palace Theater, 535 W. Wisconsin Avenue (at 6th), Milwaukee.

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