HITLER BANS CHAPLIN

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3766, 8 June 1936, Page 6

HITLER BANS CHAPLIN

OBJECTS TO HIS MOUSTACHE.

Charlie Chaplin’s new film “Modern Times,” is to be banned in Germany for four reasons. They are:— Because Charlies’ moustache is too much like Hitler’s. Charlie is not considered by the Nazis to be a full Aryan. The film has alleged Communist tendencies. The high' figure asked for screening the picture would result in too much money leaving financially embarrassed Germany.

Charlie’s views on these possible objections may be guessed from a remark passed a few days before he 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 means of a picture; I would have to do it seriously through the medium of the lecture platform.”