Chaplin Has Some More Ideas

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 33, 27 January 1939, Page 2

Chaplin Has Some More Ideas

Tt looks as if Charlie Ghaplin really feels a_ picture coming on again. Perhaps he is afraid of becoming known merely as the discoverer of Paulette Goddard. +3 was predicted a few weeks ago, the general idea of the story is to have Charlie in the role of a prisoner in a concentration camp. He will talk for the first time on the screen, but because he is unable to understand his fellow-prisoners’ language the talk will be all jargon helped out by Chaplinesque pantomime, in the style of that famous gibberish sequence in "Modern Times." "The Dictator" is the tentative name of the new film. This title does not promise well, because, as an English writer remarks, "it is the quality of Dictators to be amusing without being humorous,"