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Motion Picture Daily, New York, April 4, 1939.

The Great Dictator Scenes

& Leicester Square Theatre, exterior by night, electric sign

Douglas Fairbanks The Sun Never Sets Basil

Rathbone, London, 1939, postcard, detail

& Televise Chaplin‘s Early

      Pix as Birthday Tribute

      London (By Cable) – British television will pay a tribute

to Charles Chaplin, April 16, on the occasion of his

fiftieth birthday, by telecasting a number of his early pictures.“

(...) Film Daily, March 23, 1939

„Will not be produced“

Editorial content. „London Says Dictators Facing

      British Government Opposition

      London, April 3. – It is an accepted fact in informed circles

here that the proposed picture by Charles Chaplin, entitled

The Dictators and devoted to satirical treatment of the heads of

dictator nations, will not be produced.

      The Government has given the matter its official attention,

apparently proceeding on the policy of discouraging the

theatrical use of material offensive to the heads of foreign nations.

      Last week a minor incident in the same category cropped

up when official disapproval was expressed over a musical review

song number which lampooned Adolph Hitler. The song was

promptly withdrawn.

      It is assumed that if Chaplin‘s The Dictators is known to be

headed for official opposition in the United Kingdom, thus

erasing a great part of the potential market, it will not be produced.“

     

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