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Four examples of early American motion picture comedy will be shown tonight at the first session of the Harvard Film Society's current season. Works of Hal Roach, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Edwin S. Porter are planned for the performance at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures...
...Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie; TIME...
...Chaplin throwing platefuls of strawberries & cream and the sight of Jews being shot in the streets do not mix. At one time Chaplin's dictator roars gibberish at crowds, at another he is abashed by Oakie, at a third he malignantly orders a pogrom. Even Chaplin's barber is not of a piece. At the end of the picture the long bewildered little man suddenly launches into a forceful, moving and undoubtedly heartfelt six-minute sermon on democracy...
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...