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CITY LIGHTS?Chaplin still as good as ever in a hilarious silent picture...
...Berlin Cinemimic Chaplin had his troubles. Day after his arrival the Communist Young Guard printed an apocryphal message from the comedian: "My greetings and all my sympathies are with the Communist Youth of Germany." In vain Chaplin protested that he had made no such statement, had no interest in politics. Nationalist papers roared that this was "unwarranted meddling with Germany's internal affairs." Hitlerites, convinced that Chaplin is a Jew, marched up & down, roaring defiance, before the swanky Hotel Adlon where he was staying. A crowd of Communists, more practical, threatened to smash all the windows in the Adlon unless...
...Press suddenly remembered that Cinemimic Chaplin had denied to reporters three or four years ago that he is Jewish. The argument embroiled Jewish Scientist Albert Einstein, in mid-ocean on the S. S. Deutschland. Said...
...Charlie Chaplin is half a Jew, that is he is of Jewish descent, and so far as I know one of his grandfathers...
...Gentile the Gaumont British Corporation, controlling 300 theatres, refused to rent City Lights last week on the original Chaplin terms: 50% of the gross receipts...