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Inez Robb, INS, San Francisco Examiner, S. F., Cal., Oct. 16, 1940.

Inez Robb

(...) Photo, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis,

Missouri, Oct. 28, 1940

„The voice has been worth waiting for“

Editorial content. „NEW YORKERS IMPRESSED

      BY ,Great Dictator‘ FILM

      By Inez Robb

      Int‘t News Service Staff Writer.

      New York, Oct. 15. – The most stunning theatrical tour

de force of this generation left its audiences limp with

laughter and shaken with tears tonight when Charlie Chaplin‘s

new film, The Great Dictator, opened simultaneously

in two Broadway theaters.“ (...)

      „In his dual role of dictator and the little Jewish barber,

who becomes unwittingly the dictator‘s ,double‘

and successor, Chaplin talks for the first time in his screen

career. The voice has been worth waiting for.“ (...)

      Also in Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester,

      New York, Oct. 16, 1940.

      Title: „Comedy Masterpiece by Chaplin

      Greeted with Enthusiasm.“

      And also in in Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg,

      Florida, Oct. 16, 1940.

      Title: „Premiere of Chaplin Movie Brings Tears

      and Laughter To New York First Nighters.“

      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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