HITLER BANS CHAPLIN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 207, 29 May 1936, Page 16

HITLER BANS CHAPLIN

QHARLIE CHAPLIN’S new film. “.Modern Times,” is to be banned in Germany for four reasons. They are:—Because Charlie’s moustache is too much like Hitler’s. Charlie is not considered by the Nazis Io be a full Aryan. Tiie film has alleged Communist tendencies. The high figure asked for screening the picture wouid result in too much money leaving finanteilly embarrassed Germany. Charlie's views on these possible objections may be guessed from a remarkpassed a few days before lie left for the East: ”My new film does nothing more than poke fun at the general confusion from which we are all suffering. If I wished to try to tell people what to do about it. I doubt if I could do that by mean;- of a picture; I would have to do it seriously through the medium of the lecture platform.”

‘‘A Rich Young Man” has been fixed as the title for the Garrett. Element film of E. Phillip Oppenheim's bestseller, “The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss,” recently completed under the direction of Alfred Zeisler, at Eistree. In this film Cary Grant makes his British screen debut.