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Partially to compensate for the lack of a parade, Soviet officialdom declared a Charlie Chaplin festival, ordered a Shakespeare revival. Last year admiring Russians sent Chaplin a bear cub in the care of Tanker Skipper Mihail Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name...
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