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By BEVERLEY BAXTER M.P.
we
talicies. of
critics see so many things that perhaps unknown to ourselves olit and our appetite lessens palate grows more keen. So we are inclined become fastidious tour, taste and therefore re- moved from public taste. We cannot forget what you were in the days of the silent film when you carried the ort of miming to such heights. the
berg has there been such a reception for a celebrity. On
int sound to sight, and had To this house, where he also Bull himself; Sir Harley Shaw, the stage was a Guards' ventured only moderately into ved, came Charlie as an old cross, the debonair Attorney Band
trumpets the whose sounded a fanfare above the rest of the land playing "God Save the Queen." Princess Margaret' and 'her party took their seats in the arc-light section reserved for them.
of
-FRENCH DEMAND
Nato Army
For Indo-China
From
SYDNEY SMITH
Paris, Oct. 25. QOCIALISTS In the
Fronch Assembly aro demanding that NATO forces should be sent to ald the hard-pressed French in Indo-China.
The Socialiste parliamentary leader Marcel Naegelen was cheered by every group except the. Communists this week when he
told the National Assembly "Trance has
already bied so
much for the defence of the free world. Her resources are not Inexhaustible it is the duty of the Assembly
to say so, and of the govemment to make known to our allies,"
Naegelen, interpreting his own speech afterwards, said that his complaint naturally Implied the relict of
of French troops by In-
ternational forces. French man- power sacrifices are too heavy,
sald
he
The Socialist demand for
NATO forces follows Prime
Minister Pinay's
to complaint parliament that, while the French the
are withdrawing towards const in North Indo-China, the major deliveries of Amert- next major can aid are not due until the
first quarter of next year.
However, the American Em- bassy Paris has revealed that,
оп first-hand American eye- witness authority: '
The port of Saigon has more ships unloading American aid than the authorities there can deal with. There is not enough room for all the vessels and certainly no room for ang mor."
SUC-
Now, out-of-wark
This American counter to what clown. He
was General of the Socialist regime, were to get drunk, so that his legs
special elegance to were gave
appears to be popular French however,
We scene. Wailers in scarlet tundes
"The unconquerable courage misunderstanding comes at a Chaplin at the full tide of his pretty well paralysed too.
learn that he was voice and genius.
the great supplied the Amal climax
of your bowler-habled clown,
when French clown Calvero, once the rage of pageantry.
carrying his slick like a capler, Amerients aid to Indo-China Is Our interest was enhanced by London, now fallen on evil days.
captured the heart art the at an all time low level. It was not exactly what
the imagination of the world. You
The average Frenchman in the the fact that he had selected a young English actress, Claire Drunk as he was he managed Tolpuddle Martyrs, Kwere a ridiculous figure with a street, shocked and dismayed by Bloom,
visualised, dignity of your own. his leading lady, to carry the girl up to his room, Hardie, would have 14
You were the daily news of enciny Since acungin
and thore begins the sad little but modern British Socialists an absurdity that became an ex- cesses in Indo-China, is getting she had conquered
as love story of Spring with late see no reason why tradition and pression of sanity in mad little news of the setur help. the Old
Aulumn Whereupon And then the great man him- Juliet In
produc-
Charlie elegance should belong solely to world. But in those days you that America is giving. Old Vic
the Torics. They are quite expressed a world of meaning But, in fact, in that over- self, looking like a genial dicta- tion of that most exquisite of stars to talk.
right. ton strolled to his cat in there's plays, In focture There is no reason why a
by a mora:shrug of the shoulder, crowded port of Saigon, the 200th front row of the clrete, and
her the Juliet of the comic should talk in private life
or the raising of your hat.
cargo ship of American aid has bowed acknowledgments to the century. I
arrived at to the Arzt
the overburdened went cheering crowds.
"You did not need words, quaysides to unload its cargo at night and can never remember as by does on the stage, but Whereupon
That is what hurt us in your artillery, planes and ammunition. Mr. Charlos Chaplin
then sat. being so moved as by her ex- should he have a voice and a vocabulary which is something
new m Where once you ex- down to look at the first pre- quisite tendemers in the Bal between the chairman of a bank
The rhythm of American aid, sentation of the film "Lime" cony Scene. I ghosts walk T
in fuet, seems to have been was and a professor of psychialry? light," of which he is the hope that Shakespeare
Indo-China Command's director,
ability author, composer, somewhere about that night.
stepped up beyond the French to deal with financier and star.
My wife
and I also down in our seats which cost 15 guineas each, for
had the
WRONG SIDE
+
WHEN the dinner was finished plained everything by what you heve Strabolgi called on Morrison loft unsaid, now you
puli He lectures the
poor little to propose Chaplin's health. It descended to the level of poli- ticians who say everything and Morrison's dancer on the philosophy of life was a there after
50. even when for, as I have continue to do as if she were a class at Yale. Coclancy heart, settled NOT UNANIMOUS wing that matters is said, both he and Charlie knew they have not you are, but
nothing moro desire-the desire to live, to be, abject proverty on the wrong side we miss what you used to be." to conquer. Look at the trees, of London's river. great event was in aid of a splendid charity. As London is THE first showing of "Lime how they grow; look at the roses ed the finish of his clogs he light" was to the critics, achieving beauty cat forms; look was putting Charlie rather above something of a village we saw
the immortal Wiliam himself, the usual inhabit its all about together with on Invited at the rocks with their design.
when my attention was dig. US - Noel Coward, Douglas audience of people in the film Fairbanks, and the rest of them. and newspaper world. We rend As her legs, were paralysed- tracted by the arrival of a zote
they from our host
Outside the cinema the milling next day that at the end of the ur, at least, she thought
ware---there web no escape.
crowds held up the traffle and performance the critics stood HP Calvere had found an audience. no one cared. It was an event, and cheered the great little And the London crowds love to silver-haired star as he walked that could not walk out on him, be part of an event even if they out. This was something. Most and he made the most of it,
only see the performance of the audience arriving and departing.
HOT ICE
of our film erities take a very
of new Aims SUPERBLY DONE dyspeptic view but
had apparently Charlie
bicarbonated the momentarily critical stomadı.
F ho had only faltered for
As he ne
wai
I
A GENTLE SOUL
WELL, that is the end of the story. I have since learned that he has cut nearly half an hour of the Bim, but he must cut more than that before I would sit through it again,
the
"I am calling on you next." That was all but it enough. I don't know how Her- bert's speech ended because was trying to think how mine
Finally, what is he like as a how No matter would begin much I could poke a bit of fun man? He is a gentle soul, with at the Socialist hierarchy pre a hatred of war and a passionate come belief that the people of the a sent, I would have, to
to the guest of world should live in amity to- They were not, however, un- word or stumbled into an oc-ventually
gether. By Hollywood standards animous in their verdicts when
honour. it would
he is an intellectual, but casional incoherency, TOU will recall that with a
Bul ho they put pen to paper. Some not have been so bad.
So the moment arrived when processes of his mind are young maladroitness
dimeult to
bclaimed "Limelight" 3.5 a gave the impression that ho
40 I had to say my say about rather than soge. understand, the American au- masterpiece and confessed that would have addressed the com- Charlie to Mr Chaplin. As for thorities announced that having they had weg) tears of sadness
But as an artist I cannot be- bined Houses of Parliament with- granted Me
Charles Chaplin and tears of laughter. Others out an extra tremor of the heart. 15 I rammer it went
love that he has anything signi- British declared it to be too long, and I was only when he (who has remained a
stopped
pped thing like this:
ficant to bring to the subject by choice) a return per one or two thought the philo- telking that we saw that Chap- "Charlie-for
rofuse to now. He won our hearts on the mit they were not certain that he sophy of the piece was some lima genius is säll ove. The call
Charles despite silent clown, and if he had been would be allowed to come back what banal, but on the whole scene where the returns to * Herbert's example-1 want to wise he would have wald, like to America. This, as Shakespeare it was an enthusiastic reception. third-ate mute hall and gives say, something about critics. We Hamlet: "The echt in silence!" observes, was indeed hot ice. The fact is that they had wept, us the seedy, indomitable tramp
γου
An airline might as well sell a laughed and cheered. Who once more la superbly done. return ticket and then decline could ask more than that?
to honour il.
In Britain there was an im-
mediate, and
almost hysterical
reaction. It would
seem that
Charlie was the most beloved
member of our
family. It is
OLD CLOWN
To me the picture had been boring, the philosophy juvenile, the music cnid ballet dereing no the than adequate, and more only genius recognisable was when Chaplin reverted to the THEREFORE on the morning of down of other days. It is only true that he did not come to us the Gala Premiere I was full Jak to say that the crowd at the. in our war troubles, or enter of curiosity and expectancy, and crema gave him a great crvation tain our troops, or send us any was delighted when a note ar at the finish. bundles, but what of that? He rived from Lord Strabolgi in- . had made us laugh and he had viting imade us cry.
-We
03
you
Some-
cinem
In the last three months alone.
nearly 80 American shiploads
worth of End Item Ald" that means military equipment ready for action, has been poured into Indo-China.
in
the
In addition according to American official sources Paris, in the twelve months up to last July, France received. half a billion dollars direct military budget aid in cash- balf
considered,ta of which is have gone to Indo-Chine.
However, apparently latest developments in Indo- China are being seized on by the government's opposition as a reason for demanding, further more,
more British and American guarantees before approving the six-nation. Euro- would pean Army plan, which commit France's major forces to Europe. The
root of the problem s certainly that France considers she is fighting in Indo-Chine a battle Just as vital to the West is Korea but without all the un- derstanding and the vast support. that Korea in receiving,
On And On Goes Prosperity
Washington.
AMID all the political
·
He
AMERICA COLUMN
from
NEWELL ROGERS:
CAR
the
“MASEY STENGEL, 81-year-old, manager of the New York Yankees, gets a new contract predictions of war, of
for winning the world's base prosperity or of postwar re-
ball championship for the fourth -- successive year. His salary, goes lapses there stands out the the Sundry statement made by James
up by 25,000 dollars (£8,920) 16: On balance me to join a private
Only
330,000 dollars a year (£23,710), dianer at the House of Lords in cries were enthusiastic. honour of Chaplin on the next one wretched fellow had and J. Newman, of the vast If America didn't want Monday night. Strabolgi used that it was a poor thing Ye Goodrich Rubber outfit..
their lips. 2-The National Box- HAVE doctors the right,, like engines and-am- Charlie we would take him to to sit as a Liberal in the Come on the following evening at And Mr Newman, who has ing Association complains that
the speed our heants and even kill the not
matky,
Commander Ken- Strabolgi's dinner I would have
strings attached, TV, by showing the big city bulances, to exceed very failed calf for him. We
but
when his father to meet Citizen Chaplin face to no political
attic fact.
says the United Stato is in for fights, has wiped out the small limit?
Dr Joseph Epstein, a leading would put the candle in the fed he went to the Lords and
a period of continued prosperi- sports clubs,
brain window and keep the teapot became a Soctalist. It
Is that
surgeon who was clocked Result
the up-and- doing 60 miles an hour, sald th was he
Fortunately, by agreement ty. Lake brewing on the hearth.
who organised the Gala night Shakespeare
this conclusion coming young boxers have no and
with my host, I arrived twenty Herbert
charity, and a one Left Winger
an extensive economic place to practise, and now the his defence in a New York Morrison, he had once Hved on to another he probably wanted minutes late for the dinner. Intion the South Bank of London, and 10
policeman he was on his of the world's eight boxing to at a Tory recruiting meeting in economists, would acclaim him to pay tribute to Charile in the having had to deliver a speech study and talks with many United States holda only four court today that he explained
way to อ patient suffering Mr NewmLDE expocta a set championships.
a brain hemorrhage, favourite son. But what about citadel of pomp and privilege North Foddington The dinner
the Upper House. I looked for wes a big affair of about forty back in about 18 months (just
"But the officer," his alleged sympatho with Commundam? We couldn't, bo
ward to meeting the great little people and, with a bit of luck about the time war production FORTY-TWO -, YEAR - OLD \ bothered about that.
could get away without the em- passes its peak), but ways it will Thomas Brennan, of Brooklyn, "Insisted on giving me a lengthy barassment of a pervonal talk be short-lived and not sovere didn't share his wife's joy when lecture. If he hadn't delayed with the stres), of honour.
she was promoted forewoman so Ig my patient might not So the little man arrived with
E new three-headed camera after 11 years of machines have died." The cape his attractive young wife, his
contigues. night. As the lights dimmed It True to his colours Lord which takes those startlingly stitching in a blouse dactory. children and their older holl saw that my handkerchief was Strabolgi had shopen his gueris realistic pictures called Cinera He called at the factory and brother Sydney. They were at the ready, for like most peo
to start work on given, an uproarious welcome. ple I enjoy a good cry in the fand therefore their wives) from ma is about.
by producing G of the Socialist four new icatures in Hollywood, caused a panic among the girls A and the calf was thy slaught theatre. The
Among them will be a King threatening to murder the 'trouble finding replacements Grekl
with excitement.
good form, ex-Chancellor. Hugh Kong type of fantasy which is owner if he didn't skemate his for the G.1.0,que to come hero
wife back to the machines, Then came the advent of the "You will remember that the Gaitskeli looked, so he always sure to make people faint.
dildent David famous flan, "Limelight," in pleture opened with a promising does, like &
Protested the ex-Q.I, husband which ho won going to reveal situation. In a shabby London Copperfeld Arthur Greenwood, HE power of TV:---
as bo, was dragged away by the CAD thought about 1,500,000 the genius which he had brought boarding house about the year Trouser of the Socialist Party,
Bloom, en out of, was os full of sound wisdom, ba 1-More people than ever are police: "The new job went to at long last to the talkies. He 1012 Claire
to voto in the her bend.”...... had been the unchallenged star work dancer, had tried to com- Polonius; Lord Jowelt, late expected
It seeing shie of the silent Alm sexl had re-mit suicide boomse she thought Sochat Lond Chancellor, Book elections simply because TV fused-to risk his laurels by add- that her legs were paralysed. od more like a Tory than Fohni takk all the problems right in sorgdant ech fuccent.
man.
Now for the film as it was revealed
the Gala to us on
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atr Wis
the hierarchy 10 Party. Herbent Morrison was in
fense
prad
The
"the
ARMY officials say if the new pace is maintained in" Korean fighting, they will have
under the rotation schemoim 2..
SAD
children will be picked up by the police in 1960 if the pro acted like a sent rate of juvenile delin quendy continues in America.'