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Charles Chaplin, Letter to New York Times, October 27, 1940.

HOW WILL HITLER VOTE NEXT TUESDAY?

      What voting orders have been issued

      to Nazi sympathizers in the U. S.?

Don‘t Miss the Answer!

It‘s in PM today!

      PM 5 cents

      New York Daily

(...) Ad, New York Times, Oct. 30, 1940

The Great Dictator Scene

& The Great Dictator Still

& Dictators Hynkel and Napaloni ride triumphantly through

the streets while the populance cheers and takes it on the chin.

(...) Al Hirschfeld Caricature, The Great Dictator Pressbook,

1940, United Artists collection at the Wisconsin Center for Film

and Theater Research

„To me it is a logical ending“

Editorial content. „MR. CHAPLIN ANSWERS HIS CRITIC

      The Comedian Defends His Ending of ,The Great Dictator‘

      By CHARLES CHAPLIN

      WHEN the critic of THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote that The

Great Dictator ,came off magnificently,‘ he expressed

his own opinion. He and I meant different things, though. He was

looking at one end of the telescope and I the other. (...)

      „To me it is a logical ending to the story. To me it is the

speech that the little barber would have made – even had

to make.“ (...)

      „If two hours and three minutes of it is comedy, may I not be excused for ending my comedy on a note that reflects,

honestly and realistically, the world in which we live, and may

I not be excused in pleading for a better world?“ (...)

      German Translation in Aufbau, New York, Nov. 1, 1940.

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

      Astor Theatre, 45th Street and Broadway, New York.

   

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