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LADY, CAN YOU TAKE A DANE? Lady, start laughing at yourself! It’s your woman’s right to know before hand that when you see Charles Chaplin’s sensational mo¬ tion picture, “Monsieur Verdoux,” you see your¬ self—and how funny you can get. Women without a sense of humor needn’t apply. In “Monsieur Verdoux’’ Charles Chaplin has used his own, inimitable brand of humor to perpetuate the best joke on women since The Serpent per¬ suaded Eve that an apple was good for the complexion^ Every feminine foible and failing is there. In “Monsieur Verdoux” Chaplin puts on the screen all the things a woman’s best friend won’t tell her, without a little urging. As a modern French Bluebeard, Verdoux loves and liquidates the ladies. The ladies bring it on them¬ selves. They’re susceptible, suspicious, sour, sac¬ charine, simple and snobbish. Worse than that, they’re crazy about the fellow. The theme is startling. The love story is strange. And the laughter is earth-shaking. Husbands laugh at “Monsieur Verdoux.” Boy friends — even bachelors — laugh at “Monsieur Verdoux.” The ladies? The ladies laugh too—but there is a peculiar quality to that laughter. Most critics have termed reaction to the film “hysterical”—wouldn’t you know? 2 cols, x 125 lines-250 lines Mat 208 — .30 A WARNING! Before you see Charles Chaplin in "Monsieur Verdoux” you must know some facts about the most controversial motion picture of all time. Charles Chaplin, deserting his beloved little tramp charac¬ ter, enacts the role of the slick, sinister and charming French Bluebeard. His business: murder. Charles Chaplin introduces a revolutionary pattern of screen story-telling, confident the public will wel¬ come the most original humor and the most original drama ever filmed. There is a peculiar intensity of story and an even more peculiar hysteria of laughter in "Monsieur Verdoux." We must warn you - and YOU must warn your friends - that you must come prepared to behold something never before shown on the screen. Please remember, this is not "just another motion picture!" Charles Chaplin has dared to create for your unforgettable entertainment the diabolical but amusing story once told only in whispers. The genius of Chaplin holds a copyright on his type of love story-a love story that hurts, that frightens, that stays with you as a lingering memory. "Monsieur Verdoux” will open at the_ Add theatre ^ theatre on- name and date where indicated. 2 cols, x 120 Iines-240 lines Mat 207—.30 Page Twelve