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Ed Sullivan, Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., October 12, 1940.

Astor Theatre, lobby at „The Great Dictator“ world

premiere, New York, Oct. 15, 1940, Press Photograph,

Wisconsin Historical Society

„The Charlie Chaplin picture takes over the Astor“

Editorial content. „Little Old

      NEW YORK

      By ED SULLIVAN

      The Passing Show

      On Broadway and 45th st., at this very minute, there

is a small red sign on the sidewalk that reads:

,Danger, Men Working.‘ . . . It refers to men on a scaffold who

are taking down the Gone With the Wind electric

sign that has been blazing its message ever since the night

of Dec. 19, 1939. . . .  The men on the scaffold, as they

remove the sections, hand them down to blue-shirted giants

on the sidewalk, who then wrestle them into a blunt,

white-nosed truck which will take them to whatever warehouse

old electric signs go to when Broadway is finished with

them. . . . Shortly another crew of men will come along and set up another ,Danger, Men Working‘ sign, and start arranging

The Great Dictator placards, because the Charlie Chaplin picture

takes over the Astor lease on Tuesday.“ (...)

      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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