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Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri, August 24, 1939.

„PSYCHOLOGICALLY THE CHARACTER IS A

MASTERPIECE“ – CHARLIE CHAPLIN AS THE GENTEEL

AND PATHETIC TRAMP.

(...) Cartoon, Kansas City Star, Aug. 24, 1939

& THE Atlantic

      THE NEXT PEACE (...)

Charlie Chaplin. An Atlantic Portrait......ALISTAIR COOKE

(...) Atlantic Cover, Aug. 1939, ebay

„To minimize the risk that Chaplin takes“

Editorial content. „Reading the Current Magazines.

      CHARLIE CHAPLIN AT 50, A TINY MAN OBSTINATELY

      INTENT UPON HIS WORK

      Writer in the Atlantic Monthly Describes the Comedian

      at a New Point in His Career“ (...)

      „CHARLIE CHAPLIN is making a new film which

is provoking considerable speculation because

in this play the comedian for the first time will play a new part,

and a serious one at that. To be sure, when he plays

the title role of The Great Dictator he also will play the tramp,

the traditional and inimitable clown, who is mistaken

for the dictator. The support of the little fellow with the baggy

pants, the funny cane, and the imperishable shoes

may be expected to minimize the risk that Chaplin takes

in departing from his familiar characterization.

      A remarkably interesting story of Chaplin, sketched from

birth to his present age of 50, appears in the Atlantic

Monthly for August. It is written by Alistair Cooke, formerly

dramatic critic for the British Broadcasting company,

a research visitor to the United States, and since 1937 special

American correspondent for the London Times and

the B. B. C.“ (...)

      Alistair Cooke, Charlie Chaplin. An Atlantic Portrait,

      Atlantic Monthly, August 1939.

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