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Times, Munster, Indiana, May 20, 1941.

The Great Dictator Set

& „Dictator“ Flies Over West

      Flying over Laramie, Wyoming, in „the most approved

method for dictators to travel,“ an impersonator

of Charlie Chaplin „bombed the countryside with laughs

instead of bombs.“ Here he is shown being greeted

by Manager Jack McKee of the Fox Theatre, who engineered

the stunt on behalf of United Artists‘ „The Great

Dictator.“ Preliminary newspaper stories heralded the event

and radio took up the „gag.“

(...) Photo, Showmen‘s Trade Review, Jan. 11, 1941

& Chaplin‘s Butler Toraichi Kono aboard the Suwamaru

Tokio, March 1932, detail

& LITERARY HEAT WAVE

      Charlie Chaplin‘s worries never cease. Fast on the heels

of his „Dictator“ woes comes the news that his most

passionately guarded possession, the inside story of his

private life, is soon to be handled to the world in the

form of a book entitled „Charles Chaplin, King of Tragedy.“

Authored by one, Gerith Von Ulm, who received her

facts from a former Chaplin secretary, the book es expected

to be a malodorous bomb-shell in the peaceful

Hollywood scene. It names and tells plenty about the top

personalities in the industry for the past eighteen

years! Fearful of the effect it will have on countless hitherto

unsullied reputations, Chaplin‘s lawyers have begged,

beseeched and implored Miss Von Ulm to be a nice girl and

forget the whole thing. This she flatly refuses to do –

and the frantic attorneys can‘t even prevent her from circulating

an additional one thousand volumes, under the same

title, which are completely unexpurgated and soooo hot!

(...) Modern Screen, Oct. 1940

& Toraichi Kono, describing himself as valet and

secretary to Charlie Chaplin for 17 years, charged he had

collaborated with Authoress Gerith Von Ulm

on a Chaplin biography and received nothing for his labor . . .

(...) People in the News, Daily Herald, Provo,

Utah, May 1, 1941

„The screen comedian‘s public and private life“

Editorial content/Advertisement. „A Book a Day

      JAMES A. HOWARD

      Hammond Librarian

Charlie Chaplin.

King of Tragedy

      By GERITH VON ULM

      A study of the screen comedian‘s public and private life.

The above new book may be borrowed free of charge

from the Hammond Public Library or any of its six branches.“

Redaktioneller Inhalt/Anzeige

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