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Variety, New York, October 16, 1940.
Radio Goes To War
(...) Radio Showmanship Cover, Nov. 1942
& TONIGHT‘S BEST
RADIO BETS (...)
8:15 –
Premier: „The Dictator,“ WHN.
(...) Brooklyn Eagle, New York, Oct. 15, 1940
& Exclusive WHN Broadcast Sponsored
By PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER Look for the Blue Ribbon
– Fans at the rink are reminded of Papst
by this banner in Madison Square Garden, New York.
(...) Photo, Radio Showmanship, July 1942
& Harris & Ewing (photographer), J. Edgar Hoover,
FBI-Director, Washington D. C., April 5, 1940, Library of Congress
& Distinguished Audiences To Greet „Great Dictator“ (...)
Chaplin will speak over the radio for the first time in 12 years
when he speaks tonight over WHN at the special broadcast
of his film‘s opening at the Capitol Theater, 8:15 to 8:45.
Others who will appear on the show are Jack Oakie, Joan Crawford, Joan Bennett, Major Edward Bowes and H. G. Wells.
(...) Film Daily, Oct. 15, 1940
„J. Edgar Hoover walked by“
Editorial content. „Chaplin Also Steals
Show At Airport
Hottest news of the week is the dual opening of The Great
Dictator and out at the far end of the transcontinental trail
of the clouds, LaGuardia Field (N. Y.), the red hot news there
was the arrival of Charlie Chaplin Saturday (12) and
Jack Oakie on Thursday (10); to say nothing of the scheduled
arrival, minutes before the Broadway preem,
of Paulette Goddard.
There was wide divergence between the arrivals
of Chaplin and Oakie. Practically white-haired, the handsome
Chaplin slighted from his American Airlines‘ Mercury-
Saturday noon and hardly a ripple stirred the airport. Chaplin,
unlike most others of the Hollywood stars, not only
can succeed in escaping attention because he has changed
while his screen guise remains the same down through
the years; but also does escape it, because he doesn‘t court it.
Slimmed down since he was last seen in the east,
Oakie mugged for the cameras and gagged with the press
corps as he arrived on the TWA stratoliner. He waltzed
a few steps with a TWA hostess, called a dignified autograph houndess ,darling‘ and frightened her by pretending
he was going to plant a kiss on her lips. He gave his ,Napoloni‘
salute to about 500 people on the Observation Deck
who cheered, applauded and laughed – all but one boy. The
boy looked as if his family was straight from fascisti
stock and he thumbed his nose at Oakie. The comic caught
the gesture, mimicked it right back with his right hand,
crank-wise, beside his face, and shouted: ,Hya, Movietone
News.‘
Oakie imported a few of the film colony‘s freshest
yarns and loosed them on the reporters and photographers
covering. When a few boos and catcalls greeted his
Napaloni salute, Oakie cracked: ,Hope there‘ll be no gunplay.
Any G-men around?‘ Nothing in any script would ever
have worked out as that crack did. Ten seconds later and
50 feet away, J. Edgar Hoover walked by to his plane
for Washington.“
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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