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Thomas Nord Riley, Screenland, New York, Nov. 1940.

Charles Chaplin, New York, 1940, Chaplin for The Ages

& The Great Dictator Scenes

„Followed right behind Charlie“

Editorial content. „CHARLIE‘S MAD AGAIN!

      This time, the great Chaplin turns on dictators –

      and if ridicule can kill, they‘re corpses!

      By Thomas Nord Riley

      THINGS look fine, Charlie Chaplin has never been so sore.

When Mr. Chaplin gets sore he makes a motion picture.

The sorer he gets the funnier the picture. This time he is so all-fired

griped with a couple of foreigners he has spent a million

bucks on a flicker called The Great Dictator.“ (...)

      „You hear a lot of bolony that he‘s tight. Charlie only

makes a picture every few years, but never

lays off his staff between pictures. he‘s got about forty

families on the payroll all the time. You should have

seen him during the picture. he got to feeling that maybe the

extras weren‘t happy because they weren‘t making

enough dough, so he‘d go around to each one and say,

,Now in the next scene you say such-and-such and

you there, you say this,‘ because if the extra got in a line

or two he‘d get paid more. It didn‘t help the extras,

though,‘ sighs Mr. Oakie, ,because Dan James, the assistant

director, followed right behind Charlie telling each extra

to forget it, the budget couldn‘t stand it.“

     

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