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ROD STEIGER
THIS IS CARL SCHAFTNER, hom tycoon, mám trive Nut
and cheats without romeron. But
fortuna diy beyond hie
· Drang. And follow hdan to the dramatic and of the . road he travel all the Wey--wer ACROSS THE BRINKI
Across The Bridge"
DAVID KNIGHT MARLA LANDI
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NOEL WILLMAN -
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À ON THE SOPORTE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1957.
Anthony Fuller's Column
CHARLES CHAPLIN, GENIUS
LOOKING at it any
way like, I can find only one man who has devoted his life to the films whom I should care to describe as a genius. The film world has thrown up many famous men, several
LAUGHTER
WAS HIS
GIFT TO
clever men, a handful of THE WORLD tycoons, but only one genius. Of course I mean Charles Chaplin.
It is almost a frightening thought when I consider that Chaplin has been a star as long as I have been on earth.
What kind of man is he?
If you answer that, you can answer something no one else sacria to be able to answer. Have a look at the the opin- lons of a few people who in one way and another, describe
him:
This man does not give the impression of a happy man. I have a notion that he has a nostalgia of the slum."
all
That is Somerset Maugham In tho "Daily Herald." Noy Somerset Maugham knows about tho Borough where Charles Chaplin spent his boy hood. How much would you agree with that opinion?
OUTSHONE
Then Douglas Fairbanks Jnr. "He is the easlest mun in the world to know, but no body knows him, perhaps be cause of that." That appeared In the Daily Graphic of August 23, 1952.
great gale of mirth that used to sweep atross the audience
is entirely lacking in any to-
cent productions. People have either forgolten how to laugh, or people have lost the art of Inspiring mirth.
With one exception-Charles Chaplin,
1
Can we construct from what ho has revealed in his Alms the kind of man he is? Fizat there is Chaplin the dreamer. Who has never sat down times and achieved meinents: of triumph through the medium world? of the make-belleve What humillated person has not› known his moment of glory ond friumphed over
his cnemles?
Such
have
a Chapin wo seen. The awkwardest soldier. in the awkward squad. So he was in "Shoulder Arms." Un- conscious, he dreamed his way
by capturing to glory General Start of the German Army, and ending World War
I,
the
bc
CHAPLIN — Uncompromising Artist,
an naldo
"Limelight" was
"That is man, for better or that dealt with the hopes of for worse," anys Chaplin. There the young, and the tragedy of is little hatred in his dom- the old and discarded in show mente. The poor little tramp business. It was perhaps the doffs his hat to his traditional kindest of his films.
policeman. The enemy, the little workman similarly salutes he the boss, no matter what says under his breath.
be made who has suffered
not Who being poor has dreamed of being rich? We re-
Such films could call such flima as "City Lights" where the wistful little tramp only by one is befriended by the eccentric much and can still feel deeply. millionaire. In such films appealed to al the under- privileged, and dreamed their dreams for them, and gave everyone his moment of brier glory,
ending
discusalon **In his
(with Bernard Show and Lloyd Yet almost every George) of such serious subjects shot of these kind of ims was as unemployment, wages, and the return to reality and the his fervent plea for the aboll- brave little man, defeated by tion of the gold standard. he outshone even that great spell- binder, Lloyd George.
Ellen on. Wilkinson the Labour M.P., said that.'
"Chaplin is perhaps the only genius the screen has produced" Sir Michael Balcon in Rey- nolds News, September 1952.
Following his being told that
a world where the odds are
tackos against him,
TRIUMPH
Yet taking
Over
carrying
his
own
lite,
him tame he was no longer wanted in the which has brought
Wo 800 & maN Stater, an edusial of the New and fortune,
has triumphed not Those who York Times sald;"
circumstances, who have followed him through only
who the years cannot easily regard but himself. Only those
knew the slums can visualise him as a dangerous person." what that means.
And Mr Sam Goldwyn said of the same incident, "
.. And if they don't like me defending him-well, they can slop me from re-entering America too,"
EXCEPTION
mo
yet
Chaplin
the perfect example of the poor, poor boy! who has made good, and he has gambled all that he has gained for the lonely life of the uncompromising artist.
Every film he has made since the old days of the two-reele: comedies, has been a social in-.: dictment,
Бо
Di
On the
other hand, Louella
"The Gold Rush," and "City) by the Daily Parsons, quoted
were terrible cam- Mail, September 20, 1932, said: Lights"
on human greed, to sell his ments "Chaplin is trying
to true of the disillusionment studio, which inclines think that Chatile won't be the gay Twenties and the hun- back here for a long time. In gry Tiriles, "Modem Times" the 40 years he has lived here showed the evil that can arise in he has made miliona and mil- a society that relegates man to
mere subordinate ot lions and achieved his greatest fame without ever taking out machine. There, as no lecturer
could do, was an citizenship."
and a ghastly illustration Earlier this year I wrote of man's helplessness when in the laughter in the cinema. That grip of an industrial empire.
the
Indictment
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Only in "The Great Dictalor” Several people trace all does he show hatred naked and Chaplin's creative art to the unashamed. His caricature of
childhood. the Hiller-Mussolini type ngle years of his In so doing, they forget the cruel in the extreme. Yet who formative years of his youth would dare to say it was unde- and his steady rise to fame.
served?
1
EFFECTS
Was
greg
Who is Chaplin, what on in his mind? No one really knows. Yet I suspect he is the ioneliest man in the world. man of such supreme gifts that all he touches is enhanced by the real Chaplin.
should be the last to Ignore the effects of his boy hood, but on the other hand, bis early success that has con Yot he has given to the world tinuod tip to today, as for or the richest gift that it is possi- wealth 18 concerned, could ble to give, laughter and joy and casily cancel out tho bitter sometimes care and sorrow, Bui memories of childhood.
always the little man carries on.
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