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Frank P. Gill, Free Press, Detroit, Michigan, March 15, 1941.

The early career of Adenoid Hynkel, Charlie Chaplin‘s

satirical characterization of Adolf Hitler, was spent

in the army. Here is a scene from „The Great Dictator,“ which

comes Friday to the MICHIGAN.

(...) Photo, Detroit Free Press, March 9, 1941

& CHARLIE CHAPLIN

      Preparing for the delivery of one of his hot orations

as „The Great Dictator,“ Adenoid Hynkel sprays his throat

in one of the scenes fromChaplin‘s much publicized

lampoon on the Axis chiefs, which opens Friday at the

Michigan.

(...) Photo, Detroit Free Press, March 14, 1941

& MICHIGAN (...)

      The Rest of America

      Paid $1.10 to see this rollicking

      Comedy... But

      it starts here TODAY....

      At Popular Prices! (...)

CHARLIE CHAPLIN as „The GREAT DICTATOR“

(...) Ad, Detroit Free Press, March 14, 1941


„Chaplin has shown surprising lack of judgment“

Editorial content. „New, Satirical Chaplin

      Savagely Mocks Hitler

      BY FRANK P. GILL

      Free Press Motion Picture Editor

     A new Charlie Chaplin, whom Hitler and history have

transformed from a laughable and lovable clown

into a self-conscious satirist, has arrived on the screen of the

Michigan this week in his latest production The

Great Dictator.

      The new Chaplin, like the old, can still send an audience

into shrieks of laughter, but his humor, hitherto sly and

subtle, is now barbed and his pantomime is tinged with acid.

International events are in the director‘s chair and

Chaplin is the star performer.

      The old Chaplin besides being a master comedian, was

also a shrewd judge of pacing and tempo in all his

productions which had a smoothness and completeness

of detail that made them outstanding among film

laugh creations.

      The new Chaplin, however, has lost some of this adroitness,

and the resultant production is uneven and patchy.

There are moments of high humor, comparable in many ways

to the best this little comedian has ever produced.“ (...)

      „Lack of Judgment Shown in Some Scenes

      In between these comic highspots, are whole sequences

that seem out of place and ill presented. The events

they typify are far too tragic and too near to many who see

them to be injected into a comedy script as release

from laughter. In some of these scenes, notably in the comic presentation of storm troopers acting as Keystone

cops of old, Chaplin has shown surprising lack of judgment,

and the cast he has gathered around him do little

to raise the standard of the scenes.“ (...)

      Michigan Theatre, 238 Bagley Street, Detroit.


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