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...said her brother Dan, a San Francisco policeman, "baseball is no game for a girl. Look at Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs. Why not lead the swell life they do-go round the world in style and just play a few tennis matches every day." Brother Dan bought his kid sister a racquet, shoved her off to Golden Gate Park's public courts...
...States-Washington, Massachusetts, Missouri, Kansas. New Hampshire-the fate of Governors depended on the final count, a recount, or perhaps on the tally of absentee ballots. Election oddities bubbled out of the county tallies: in Lincoln County, N. Mex., old stamping-and-shooting ground of Billy the Kid, Willkie and Roosevelt were tied. So were they in Gilpin County, Colo., in Marinette County, Wis. In almost uninhabited Armstrong County, S. Dak., nobody voted...
Pathos, as good as any Chaplin put into The Kid, goes in too-the homely lives of the Jews in the Ghetto, the naïve pleasures of the little barber's scrubgirl friend (Mr. Chaplin's Paulette Goddard...
Almost everybody will have to see this picture because it is Chaplin's first in four years. Almost nobody will ever want to see it again-as people still want to see The Kid and Shoulder Arms...
...barber he is the old Chaplin. His dance sequence after getting bopped on the head with a shovel, and the nonchalant feat of accompanying the Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody with his razor while shaving a frightened customer are as good as anything he did in the era of "The Kid" and "The Circus." Naturally he plays Adenoid Hinkel, the Phooey of Tomania, superbly. But here he is moving in a strange and discordant world of realistic and bitter social satire that just doesn't fit in. And when at the end of the picture he steps out of both roles...