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Show CHICAGO IS SHOCKED BY CHAPLIN, "THE KID" AND AN ASH CAN Comedian's Rescue of Wailin Waif Stirs Up Wind in Windy City Baby. Ash can. Broken windows. Charlie Char-lie fhuplin. There you have the elements of. the mom dim'ussed picture made In years. They want to atop it In Chicago, where It's showinic now. It depicts a mother throwing ber offspring off-spring Into an ash can. Horrible! H-o-r-r-i-b-l-e!! Charlie takes the baby under his sheltering shel-tering winn. Being a Blaster for the pur-poBf pur-poBf of i he picture, he teaches the kid to throw rocka throurh windows. Charlie follow and Rets the Job f r" pairinfr the damage, yuite a job he make of it. ltH pulty good. "Charlie's funny, I know," says T. D. Hurley, chairman of the Chicago com-initnn com-initnn on motion picture. "But are we going to encourage hhy-sbandonment by mothers and window-breaking by hoys?" "It's the greateet picture ever produced l'v a anifcle artiat," aaya .Samuel Goidwyn. H"s president of a film corporation tpat han no interest whatever in Chaplin pictures. pic-tures. "The Kid" Is the first Chaplin release In more than a yr. He has four more 9 coming under bis First National contract. He ret-elvi.1 1464 scenarios in the past four weeks, but he. doesn't want them. Hp writ-a his own. fcjsSar-. ... hi . CHAWLIC CHAPLIN AND "THE KID." |