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Oscar Hume, Film Daily, New York, September 10, 1941.

Here‘s How a 24-Sheet Looks on a Street Car

      Have you ever wondered how a 24-sheet looks as a street

car ballyhoo? Well, brother, it literally knocks their

eyes out, and just for proof take a look at the car above which

carried a poster on each side for three days in advance

of the opening of Charlie Chaplin‘s „The Great Dictator,“ at the

Madison Theatre, Peoria, Ill. Leonard Worley, city

manager of the Madison, arranged the tieup.

(...) Photo, Showmen‘s Trade Review, June 7, 1941

& Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota, undated,

photo from senate.gov

„Roared with laughter“

Editorial content. „NYE CASTIGATED BY WILLKIE

      Nye Admits He Saw But Few of ,Propaganda‘ Pix

Industry Denied Right to

Cross-Examine: Nye Admits

Not Seeing Pix He Rapped

      By Oscar Hume“ (...)

      „Washington – Formal demand by Sen. Gerald P. Nye,

Rep., N. D., for a ,sweeping inquiry‘ of the film industry,

voiced as the Interstate Commerce sub-committee opened

its inquiry here yesterday in the packed caucus room

in the Senate Office Building drew blistering answer from Wendell

L. Willkie, industry counsel, in an instantaneous and

lightning counter.“ (...)

      „Nye said he considered I Married a Nazi the ,worst‘

propaganda he has seen,“ (...) „Under pointed questioning by

McFarland, Nye finally broke down and admitted he had

seen very few of the pictures he has attacked and that considerable

portion of his conclusions were based on information

obtained from others. The capacity audience roared with laughter

when he said one of these was The Great Dictator.“ (...)

    

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