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Motion Picture Daily, New York, August 9, 1940.

The Great Dictator Scene

& Tomorrow At Two Theatres

      Broadway Welcomes

      Gone With The Wind

      Astor (...) Capitol (...) New York, Dec. 1939 

„Exhibition plans were discussed“

Editorial content. „Special Plan For Exhibition Of ,Dictator‘

      Chaplin Film to Be Sold Like ,Gone With Wind‘

      An exhibition policy for Charles Chaplin‘s The Great Dictator

similar to that employed by Loew‘s for Gone With

the Wind is expected to be adopted within the next few days.

      Distribution terms have not been set and probably

will not be definite until Harry Gold and L. J. Schlaifer, Universal“

United Artists „vice-presidents of distribution, go to the

Coast in about two weeks to confer with Chaplin.

      The exhibition plan calls for initial openings late

in September in six key cities, with two theatres

in each city playing the picture. One house will be on a

two-a-day, reserved seat policy with a top admission

of $1.50. The other will play on a continuous policy at 50

and 75 cents and $1. Theatres and cities for the

initial openings have not been selected yet.

      The Great Dictator runs two hours and five minutes.

It has been changed in no respect from the originally

completed version, United Artists officials say. The production

cost was approximately $2,000,000.

      Exhibition plans were discussed by Chaplin and

Maurice Silverstone, United Artists‘ chief executive, who

will arrive from the Coast tomorrow.“

     The Great Dictator world premiere is in New York Oct. 15, 1940

      at the Capitol and Astor Theatres.

      Capitol Theatre, 1645 Broadway (at 51st Street), New York. 

      Astor Theatre, 1531 Broadway (at 45th Street), New York.

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