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...Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie; TIME...
...Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie; TIME...
...tailored hostesses are the Andrews Sisters, who swing their tunes at regular intervals, a standard ingenue (Jane Frazee), who helps militarize a misfit from the Social Register (Lee Bowman). But the principal shenanigans belong to Abbott and Costello, who are rumored to have evoked an imperial laugh from Charlie Chaplin at a private Hollywood screening. With lean Mr. Abbott feeding lines to porky Mr. Costello, they sometimes sound like a breath of Joe Miller ("Those bags are too much for you. Why don't you get a red cap?" "What's the matter with...
...tyrannical Producer Samuel ("Include me out") Goldwyn filed suit in a Federal court to compel United Artists to release him from his distribution contract. Two of his four partners in United Artists, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (who died a few months later) were no longer making films. Charlie Chaplin brooded on his art, once in a long while turned out a picture. Producer Goldwyn felt that his films were carrying United Artists, had tried in vain (with British Producer Alexander Korda) to acquire the rest of its stock...
...George Chaplin of the Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont, is studying the race problem with respect to Negroes; another, Harry M. Davis, a feature writer for the New York Times, has been spending some of his time in the dissecting room of the Medical School, and some of it watching the atom smasher in action; R. Vance Johnson, of the Globe-News Publishing Company, Amarillo, Texas, has been investigating the workings of the oil industry and studying petroleum economics...