POCKET CABTOONİ BY OSBERT LANCASTER
"Better_come, away, now, dear-you know how madly secretive primitive peoples always are about their tribal magic."
PINAY GETS TOUGH
From
Sydney Smith
Paris. THE French Government
Than
launched its greatest-ever challenge to the French Reds a de- mand for the lifting of parliamentary immunity of acting Communist Party Secretary, Jacques Duclos, and five other members of Parliament.
All of them belong to the top level of the Party's Politicni
Bureau, which meets once a week to de- cide the Party's political line in France.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1952.
The Chaplin
Chaplin Story 5: He Was "Too Temperamental? Som
POLA
NEGRI SAID 'NO'
TO MARRIAGE
THE spate of Chaplin
T
over.
of Chapin By COLIN
films which hnd flooded the world
·
with laughter was FRAME
WEA
From now on people had
solved by engaging to be content with a film private tutor.
every few years while the Mins Grey left the cast of tomperamental Chaplin worked when he felt in- clined, rested when he felt inclined, and filled Holly wood dustbina with miles of scrap film, discarded in his Hearch for perfection.
Chaplin' the arilst, ercator, emerged,
arrived home
tired from the studio in the middle of it. Fle ordered the guests out. Then his wife and her mother said, they would go too.
They did, and the two little boys went with them.
The legal fight which followed brought
to the limits: of his
His wife issued a statement The Gold Rush" and Georgia that ho called her a gold- Hale took her place. Many of digger, threatened her and the scenes hud to be shot all ignored her. She charged cruel
and inhuman treatment. ever again.
Chaplin replied with a state- Next your Chaplin's produc- ment. "I surrounded her with tion of "The Gold Rush" set the every comfort and granted her world chuckling again, and Mrs every
desire. Chaplin's production of The with us. In fact her whole the Kid, Charles Chaplin
Junior, fanllyiltutes cruel and in- the run of my house. sent his father into raptures. If this consi
Time has tested and proved the genius of "The Gold Rush," which has emerged as probably of the the best remembered typleni Chaplin Blms.
as
get far more thrill director and producer than as an actor," he said. "It is simply the old satisfaction of making something, shaping something.”
"The Gold Rush'
He felt complete master of his medium. He rarely sought advice. Jie puid little heed to box-office figures.
Once he said: "Frankly I do not believe the public know, what it wants-that is the con- clusion I get from my own career."
Twenty years later it was re- issued with a musical sound track. And the new generation laughed and cried at it just as their fathers and mothers had done
In it the funny business was worked out against brilliant scenic effecta of mountain and snow. A typical Chaplin touch was the contrast of the pitiablo tle man against pitiless nature.
"Pawns Of Fate"
Her mother lived
human treatment I do not know the meaning of the words."
He suspended work on his alm. Receivers were appointed to take over the studio pending
settlement of his wife's action. Guards were put on his 40-room home in Beverly Hills to make sure nothing was moved.
"Life A Mess”
Touching scone from □ Chaplin classic, "City Lights." 'The sentimental Tramp pays court to
For
there ever afterwards were, particularly in the United States, people who were quick
point to his faults. Lita Grey
twice married afterwards and each marriage ended in divorce.
10
the Blind Girl, played by Virginia Cherrill.
"Limeligh!"; but they have denied any romance.
When, in 1928, "The Circus” hit New York and Londitur concerned at people who were the thought that the year of trial might have affected Chaplin's artistry cheered sti laughed, to see that all the old magic had been retained.
"I am the saddest man in
She brought up the two America. My life is a mess,"
father he told his friends. For weeks Chaplin boys but their he did nothing. The man who had access to them at any time prided himself on his tness and seems to have taken u le swam.- played tennis and leading part in their education once. the story gocs. beat and careers. Even the athletic Douglas Falr- banks in a race-walked about in a dream, pale and distraught.
He took a year to make "The "My characters are pawns of Gold Rush." Then the public fate," he had said, discussing the waited three years before they themes of his pictures, "because
It was about this time that saw his next film "The Circus." that, I honestly believe, is what In between, those years brought we all are."
people began to tell a story of Chaplin montents of supreme His audiences disinclined to how a man walked sadly into happiness and appalling misery, read a moral or look for hidden a doctor's consulting room.
His first leading lady in "The meanings in his films, rocked Gold Rush" was Lita Grey, dark at the old Chaplin touches- "There's nothing wrong with haired
Bashing eyed the way he ate boiled boots, his you," said the doctor. ot an old Spanish nerve-racking daughter
walk along the bught to cheer yourself up--why family.
and 600 the latest edge of an abyss with a polar not
And
03
other
Behind The Mask
success.
months in London
scoing the
There was Charlie in the lion's den, Charlie on the tight-rope, arlic-hundreds of Charlies being chased b
hundreds of by pelicemen - in the Hall of Mirrors, Charlie relieving his tunger by making suck faces at a child that he is willingly given hot-dogs.
NEXT SATURDAY Charlie Meets Tho Challonge Of The Talkies And Triumphs
Charles Junior, now 20, served in the American Army during the war and is now, making his But the theme Is lils love for own way on the stage. Sydney, a lady who leaves him flat, and tall and good looking and said "The Circus" lustrates once "You to be the apple of his father's again what people had learnt to eye, was also in the army and be true In Chaplin's own life- then turned to dims with some that the clown's mask often hides a tear-stained. face and In November 1924, she and bear after him, the dance of twe Charlie Chaplin Alm?"
He acts with his father in that a man's heart may be Chaplin left the set of "The breadrolls and Charlle dancing "Alas, I am Charlie Chaplin," the latest Chaplin, "Limelight," breaking even as he makes the Gold Rush"-show and ice while holding up his pants with was the reply. Of course, that and has spent the last few world laugh. and mountains-for the dust his cane and then lying them Up of Mexico City and there they with a handy piece of string storyas told about once clowns places his married.
which had a dog on the end of Uke Grimaldi. But out it came century agorz Knew Hollywood was
became Once again im-
surprised. Chaplin
There was too the cll pathos again with all its sad impli- linked
actress chosen by his by matchmakers with as he walted for the girl who cations-for the world's funniest with Claire Bloom, many women in the four years never came to the New Year's
Further blows followed. The thal had passed since his party he had arranged with
Federal Government slapped such care! divorce.
down a claim against Chaplin With
Chaplin showed once again after a long for £210,000 arrears of income the previous seven absence that he was the world's tax over favourite clown. At the same years.'
"It's a second Gold Rush," the time
character he had created was established in law, sold his lawyer.
For the Superfor Court of after long action, an injunction restrain- from
-If the request is granted by fall Parliamentary vote, the six depulles will be arrested mediately and formally charged with
freasonable activities which will make them liable to Mic sentences or the death penalty.
But even their
arrest alone. 'oa France is-showing, will "chop off the lead of the French Com- munist Party,"
For the first time for more than thirty years the requests for the lifting of parliamentary immunity originate from Government organisations, ap- proved by the Cabinet and on- cially forwarded to Parliament by Government representatives.
And the implications against
it.
had
been
Tempestuous Pola
For a few months he bad been engaged to.. Pola Negri, the dark siren of screendom whom
found 红吧
in Germany and brought to America to become a sensation overnight.
this
companies ing other
man.
Sadder & Wiser
imitating him or file pictures. But Chaplin was beyond Their engagement was broken,
The big bools Said the
and baggy caring. He collapsed-in-a-New beautiful but fem- trousers, battered hat and cane York hotel and was rushed to pestuous Pula: "Charlie is too
were Inid down to bu the hospital with temperamental for me." And costume of Charles Chaplin end, that nearly ended his life. For
that must be one of the more
classic Instances of the pot calling the kettle black.
the top Communista contained For his part Chaplin Indicated
in the request — "demoraliza- tion of the Army and actions against the external security of France" made at the initia tive of the Defence Ministry Ministry and the
for the Colonies, are the most serious ever ollereit against French Members of Parliament,
als its requests against:
that he had 110 intention of In his marrying ever again.
no one else.
Scene At Party
a breakdown
days he lay unconscious. And only slowly did he recover his old zest for life and work.
In August, 1027, a sadder and wiser Chaplin returned to his studio and to his task of making
nost cynical mood he said: By 1925 he had begun work Marriage is the quickest death on his next film, "The Circus,"
known to. Individuality
to and in that year Lite Grey had people laugh.
another Eon, Sydney. Bul humanity."
The divorce cost him £125,000 But six months later he tried Chaplin of the adult. gifted and in settlement to Lita Grey, a it again.
mature mind found increasingly trust fund of £40,000 for the
£150,000.
Chaplin was 35. Miss Grey that he had little in common two children whose mother was The Defence Ministry has was said to be nineteen, but a with his second wife, who was made their legal guardian, and issued through military tribun-Los Angeles reporter produced in later years to say, just as did an amount in legal fees. He her birth certificate which Mildred Harris: "I was too had satisfied the income tax showed she was sixteen, and young: I couldn't understand collector with " bond for Jacques Duelos, neting for
a while the film colony had him chuckle as under, a new Early in December 1920, the munist Party in France and Californian law, Chaplin's papers were full of the story In nine months of inactivity head of the Communist Parlin- | sixteen-year-old wife was des- of a scene betwen Chaplin he had become poorer by about mentary group:
tined to continue her education. and his wife at a party, she £350,000. What was probably bis reputation had had given to some young so- worse, clalites. Chaplin, apparently, suffered in the slanging match.
Secretary-General of the Com- 11
Francois Blioux, a party, tuc tician with close relations with Moscow;
Andre Marty, number three in the French Communist party, Raymond Guyot and Flenno Fajon, other top French Reds,
The Ministry for the Colonies has issued its request through the Parliamentary President of the French Colonial Union against Loan Feix...
Felt is a Councillor of the French. Colonini Union, whose Communist-backed support for Atob cinima, against the French
Government. especially in Tunisia, and Morocco, aro.com- sidered to have made him lablo, to prosecution.
French Parliamentary proce dure will probably mean at least a two-month delay before the full Assembly can vote on the Government's requests. First of all a special Parliamentary com- mmittee must examine the re- quests and make its recommen- dation to the House.
But there is no doubt that, if the committce passes the ques- tions to a vote, the Communists will inne. And the French. munist Party, already confu
acattered and muddled by Prime Minister Pinay's forceful police walds since Ins! May's Ridgway "will" and itself “with no
ommand, no diétives and
no policy. The Pinity victory will be complete.
Would she go back to school. they asked? But the problem
HE BIT ME!
LION LIES DOWN WITH LAMB
Не
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half-a-
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