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Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, October 5, 1941.

The Once Over

      By H. I. Phillips

      MOVIE INQUIRY

      Senator Tweek – Will the witness give his name,

please?

      Witness – Mickey Mouse.

      Senator Tweek – How long have you been

in pictures?

      Mickey – Oh, it must have been away back when this

committee first began its investigation.“ (...)

      „Senator Pie – We are going far afield. Let us take up

the matter of Gone With the Wind.

      Wendell – Did you see it?“ (...)

      Senator Pie – If there was enough wind I must have

been there.

      * * *

      Senator Tweek: Isn‘t that the picture written around

the lives of Nurse Cavell and Lord Nelson?

      Senator Pie – No; Gone With the Wind was the

picture in which Charlie Chaplin played one of the grapes

of wrath.

(...) Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 10, 1941

„Not definitely known, whether Chaplin will appear“

Editorial content. „EFFORT TO ,SMEAR‘

      FILM PROBE SEEN

Committee Head Charges Use Of Half Truths

And ,Deceptive Innuendo‘

      Inquiry Will Be Carried On Regardless,

      Senator D. Worth Clark Asserts“ (...)

      „It previously had been reported that Charlie Chaplin,

whose last picture was The Great Dictator,

would be heard by the committee Monday. Today, however,

Clark announced that the committee would not

resume its hearings until October 13, as several of the members

would be out of town. It is not definitely known,

whether Chaplin will appear.“

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