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Variety, New York, September 6, 1939.

Choose Your Market with Fulton Lewis Jr., Radio‘s No. 1 Commentator on National Affairs

(...) Ad, Broadcasting, Washington, D. C., Oct. 15, 1939

& WKY Oklahoma City

(...) Ad, Broadcasting, Washington D. C., Sept. 15, 1939, detail

& NEW NERVES THAT STIR THE WORLD

(...) Cartoon, New York Times Magazine, Sept.17, 1939

& „Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation“ – from The

New York Times, reprinted in

(...) Broadcasting, Washington, D. C., Oct. 1, 1939

& Quite a Day

      Last Sunday (3) easily takes rating as the biggest news day

in the history of radio.

(...) Variety, Sept. 6, 1939

& Rehearsals Begin For Chaplin Film

      The word from the Charlie Chaplin studios is that rehearsals

have begun for the forthcoming film to be known

under the working title of „Production No. 6“ until a final title

is selected.

(...) Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1939

& Charlie Chaplin apparently is going ahead with

„The Dictators,“ although actual production hasn‘t been

started. Tests are being made for a cast at present.

(...) John L. Scott, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., Sept. 10, 1939

„It is not known whether Chaplin will continue“

Editorial content. „Hollywood Retrenches as War Cuts

      Into Rentals From Foreign Markets“ (...)

      „In the case of Gone With the Wind, Metro figured

a $2,000,000 or more foreign market return.

Its release was figured on around the Yule holiday period.

However, it has been long time in making and

Metro may decide to set it back. Another important one,

though not in work, is Charlie Chaplin‘s The

Dictator. This picture was figured would run well over

the $1,000,000 mark, and with its story built

around the world dictatorship element, and the fracas going

on in Europe, it is not known whether Chaplin will

continue on present story premise, modify it, or suspend

production until hostilities cease abroad. Presumed

the latter, in keeping with U. S. neutrality.“ (...)

     

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