Word: chaplinitis
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...Chaplin, Asta Featured...
...peace. World-wide cartels operated by blind Americans and undercover Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither around the stage, eager to rehoist the banner of fascism, and badly oriented American troops sell nylons and democracy for nightly fraternization. These are all familiar themes, stories that fill the columns of our daily papers. But the effect of the news releases cannot approach the impact achieved...
...Ahmed Emin took up where he had left off. During the war, Vatan was one of the few journals in Turkey which strongly supported the Allied cause. Again it was throttled for long periods for its attacks on Government policies-and once for publishing a still photograph from Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which had been banned by the Turkish Government. Ahmed Emin long fought Turkey's single-party system. In the past year a weak anti-Government party has been established, but Ahmed Emin refuses to become its candidate-it might interfere with his independence...
...unhappy families in Hollywood, United Artists Corp. seemed to be the unhappiest. One-third owner Mary Pickford and one-third owner Charlie Chaplin had not been on speaking terms for a year and a half. Yet last week, via counsel, they agreed to boot out one-third owner David Oliver Selznick...
...flagrant cases of Errol Flynn and Charlie Chaplin in propagating marital irresponsibility among the youth of this country are not sterilized by the example of the few nice people in Hollywood," Carle C. Zimmerman, assistant professor of Sociology, yesterday retorted to movie colony protests which had arisen because of a similar statement he had made recently...