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Paul Harrison, Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N. Y., October 5, 1939.

In his latest movie Charlie Chaplin plays a Dictator

of the Double Cross.

(...) Photo, Life, June 17, 1940

& Chaplin Sues, Wins Injunction vs. Life

(...) Film Daily, June 13, 1940

& Look, Liberty Hold Off Chaplin‘s Stills

      Publications of stills from Charles Chaplin‘s forthcoming

„Production No. 6“ will be withheld voluntarily

by Liberty and Look, officials of those publications informed

Charles Schwartz of Schwartz & Fröhlich, counsel

for Chaplin, over the weekend, after disclosing that a number

of the stills were in their possession.

(...) Motion Picture Daily, June 17, 1940

& Chaplin and Time Settle „Dictator“ Stills Action

(...) Film Daily, Aug. 27, 1940

„A Teutonic-sounding gibberish“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Apes Hitler

      By PAUL HARRISON

      Hollywood – Short takes: At home, or at friends‘

parties, Charlie Chaplin rehearses the Hitlerish speech which

he‘ll deliver in The Dictator.

      People, who hear it, and who speak German, usually

strain for several minutes in complete bewilderment

to understand the impassioned oratory. Then they realize

that Chaplain isn‘t speaking German at all.

He can‘t.

      It‘s just a Teutonic-sounding gibberish that seems to make

sense but doesn‘t – like the lyric to his song, Tetina,

in Modern Times.

      As Hitler, in his double role, Chaplin will be called

,Adenoid Hickley.‘ Billy Gilbert has been tested for the part

of Goering, who‘ll be known as ,Herring.‘ And Jack

Oakie is being tested as Mussolini. If the character is used,

it‘ll become ,Gasolini.‘“

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