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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1955.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
At 65 Charlie Chaplin Is Still Making Films
SIDE GLANCES
But he's getting "too old for skiing”
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Geneva.
Charlie Chaplin, after two years of self-imposed exile from the United States, is hard at work on a new movie but ready to admit, at 65, he's getting too old for skiing.
I'd like to live for 200 years," | permit in 1083 after being not!- Chaplin toll some friends the lied he would face a hearing on ther day, "Life keeps expand his alleged "leftint" political 1% amazing how little you views he went back to know."
America.
metationed having steepless night wonder- Ha Whether he should go eltiing He decided, Anally, ho 1. old for that mort *ཎ།
thing.
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age han whatenee! Chaplin's talt, it has not slowed down lies doing the For serat and tisic for a movie he hopes to start shooting willan a Verm He dabbles in printing. viruta business associates abroad. and in planting a trip to Africa.
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subject, chatry
They're Going
ROUND THE
WORLD
IN A JEEP
Which Floats!
London. Benjamin Frederick Car- lin, who crossed the Atlantic in an amphibious jeep three years ago, is starting on his travels again and this time expecls to go right around the world.
The 42-year-olet
Australian Ide Bat-born wife, kler, plan to leave England tor Australia emily dus gear an their preju Hall Sale"
From Audrale they will go
15-Room Villa
| price. He may stop for a glass : of wine at an inn. He likes to chat with village workmen. His children attend the village school.
Ouma denies reporte she may leave Chaplin to return to the Since then he and bis United States. She is busy pretly 20-year-old wife Cona, looking after the children and daughter of the late American overseeing a stall of four T- playwright, Eugene O'Neill, vanis at the villa.
lived Jueve
with their
Chaplin's five
friends Say the children in a 15-rom, £120,000 ageing actor is as "sprightly and villa on the shores of Lake busuing as ever" and it is known he still has his fumous outbursts of temper.
Geneva.
The Chaplins are party-goers and party-givers. Their visitors have ranged from former Queen
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Victoria el Spam to the Premier
China, Mr Chou of Commu Enfal Last year he received a Commurust delegation that pre- ended him with a "peace prize," He promptly turned the money over to soine charities, including Catholic ones.
Chaplin Lili deserts him- 115 "liberal progre99|ve=" in polities,
he prefers to tell about his work rather than world affairs,
His nese movie is to be endled Gool Klur" and deals with a man ch
forced to
1
w
Leading New Life
to San Francisco ang Unsice 10jabdiente inid tires to lead a new Montreal, where Carlin alaried || late as an average citizen. Ex- drtying towards Europe six and | Queen Victorin is helping out as
half years ago.
spertal adviser on Court pro- Carlin
mining engineer to From Perth who served the Ladan Army during World War ft, boasted to a friend nice that -1 could <rive J} ------ phitous jeep around the world under its own team, eroosing the Parific and Atlantic Oceans in
The
His friend laughed. So Car- In bought a surplus U.S. Army
Mrs
job
Recently a local Court ordered him to settle
back up come salary owed to his former.stere-
Isabelle Deiuz. tury. M Deluz Bald she quit her after a "terrible scene" with
He had lost his tem- Chaplin. per, she said, because she order- ed the wrong colour tiles for his swimming pool. -United Press.
By Galbraith Old Russian
Nobility Make Good
galharte
T. M. Mog. U. & Pontia
"Is it an important call, mothor? Alica is playing her new record album for me!"
Mussolini's Subway To Nowhere
Opening At Last
Rome.
The Rome subway is going to open at last-16 years after Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini ordered work to begin.
Most Romans
don't know I, rounded by long gleaming but the two-car trains have marble corridors, lighted with already started running on neon tubes enclosed in hand- trial trips preparatory to the wrought lanterns. official opening in a few days. There arc plans for Lum- The seven-milo "Metro-stiles, but there have not been polllena". Its cust about £7 Installed yel million.
Each streamlined grey-blue But there is only one trouble.
car seats 62 but can take 280 The line doesn't go anywhere. "sardines" in the best subway In magnificent splendour, the fashion. There are no straps rubway
runa from the train above and standing passengers station in the centre of Rome have to hang on strategically out to a lovely meadow seven placed vertical bara. miles away.
A Tough Job
For Rockefeller Jnr
New York.
Members of the old Rus sinn nobility are having the last laugh at persons who 'joke that many doormen and walters RTU grand Dukes in disguise.
A number of the nobiilly, who lost everything they had Soviet Communism's ' Orst vic tims 37 years ago, have made a comeback in the
now world. They may have started factory workers or cab drivers, but a lot of them are on "Easy Street" today.
mit as
The Ruslan Nobility Associa
tion, an organisation dedicated
La
to keeping an eye on Russia's old "Arst familles,'
reports that all
1ut a few of Its 300 members in this
country have done well. † Those who ticed help get it from the Association.
An official of the organisation,
a former Army colonel who can trace his and
ancestry back to the itame of Russia'a
Arst reigning members in-
princes. cludo
sold its
a few millionaires, who did not have a cent or know u word of English when they ar- geet here after Use 1017 volution.
Still Drives Taxi Among the nobles who have thrived on demnerney's free enterprise arc bunk vice- presidents college professors, presidents, engineers,
two hotel
| scientists and United Nations
translators.
The last of the doormien has
on a pension, the colonel
reported One elderly woman working as a baby sitler and there is only one old aristocra still driving
A taxi. He stayed behind the wheel because he 1ked the work.
The colonel
said success for the White Russians depended
largely un how well and how fast they learnt English.
ho
When he reached New York 31
31 years ugo with $25 in his pocket, he took a job peeling potatoes in at hospital until
until he
learnt English.
Vermont farm.
Later he bought a Verm
Now he devotes mast of his time to Russian gencology.
become U.S.
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