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Reginald Taviner, Photoplay, New York, May 1933.

A Nazi Group Picketing a Woolworth Store in Berlin

in the Belief That the Founder of the Store System Was a Jew.

He Was Not.

(...) Associated Press Photo, New York Times, March 30, 1933

„The tear of his heart“

Editorial content. „A Millionaire In Search of Happiness

      Rich in fame, money, friends, the greatest comedian of all

      time asks – in vain – for but one small gift

      By Reginald Taviner

      In Hollywood you may see ex-cigarette girls who have

become cinema princesses, and former taxi drivers

who are worshipped as demi-gods.“ (...)

      „Yet, among all the multitudes of celebrities. among

the world-famous throngs of soothsayers, stars, sycophants and

supervisors, he, the most celebrated, the most famous

great among all the near-great and the would-be great, roams

as a lost soul.

      He is lonely, because no other soul can share with him

his pedestal of genius.

      He is sad, because the laughs he has given the world

have been born in his own sorrows.

      He is a jester in the court of life, a Pagliacci whose clownish

make-up ever hides the tear of his heart.“ (...) 

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