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Hollywood they call Charlie Chaplin "The King" again. generation Children and adults--

have discovered him in the United States and Britain. The great clown is being hailed by the ordinary folk and by the intellectuals as the comedian of all time. Chaplin re- assumes his unique position as the poet and mime of films. How has this twice-told success story come about? For the past three years Chaplin, bitter and grim, had refused

to allow his films to be shown com- mercially. The hostile public and critical reception in the U.S. of his "Monsieur Verdoux" wounded him. The fact that various foreign boards awarded him medals and silver cups did not console him.

IS IT A PROPER SUBJECT

By Patricia Clary

Wis

Chaplin insisted "Monsieur Verdoux" one of his best pictures, and that the frigid re-

THE newest problem pic-ception was due to the savage attacks upon his Trevestorywood

about the problems of hav-

ing a baby. The producer

is looking for an actress who is really expecting baby to play the lead.

1

Some people In Hollywood have complained that pregnancy is not proper for a movie, Max- well Shane replied that every plancer is bound to be criticised,

"There has never been a dra- matic motion picture based in its entirety on this most funda- mental and exciting of all ad

"Yet ventures," Shane sald. the topic is close to the hearts of every family. Whenever you try something new, there are people who tell you it can't be done.

PROBLEMS ARISE

The story

They loved it

WHEN his six-year-old daughter, Geraldine

and

It was a

(he also has a four-year-old son, Michael, and two grown boys, Charles jun, and Sydney), told him that the small private school which she attended had to raise some money, Chaplin reluctantly agreed to lend a print of "City Lights" for a benefit performance. wildfire success. Chaplin says: "I wandered in were sitting watched the children. They on the ends of their seats.. They loved it."

was the delighted, even ccstatic, reaç- tion of the children that made him decide to re-issue "City Lights." It opened in, New York's to Globe Theatre last April. The ushers had turn the crowds away; the critics hailed the genius of Chaplin, and the audiences, mostly Bittle lads and girls, wondered who this wonder- ful funny man could be.

re-issue other

Now there are plans to Chaplin masterpieces.

year.

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Charlie Chaplin us he appears in "City Lights," one of his great triumphs which is coming back to Hongkong soon.

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Charles Spencer Chaplin, the Even during the dreary period down my idea for 'City Across

who created when his views were so far said that the secret of Chaplin's the River. It has made more tiny English

success Was "Inexhaustible money than a lot of their big-the character of the little tramp, Left that some Americans ne-

seems a happy man today. He cused him of Communism--a Imagination governed by the budget productions,"

is visiting England early this very foolish charge he could unfailing precision of a perfec:

any technique," still enchant and entrance gathering.

Chaplin himself shles from The problem that really wor

such fancy descriptions, says: 17, Hankow Road, Kowloon rles Shano now is finding an

Chaplin hit a low in personai "Knowledge of human nature Is, FINAL TO-DAY actress whose own time-table.

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 with the stork will match his HE is working on a new fim, popularitaturely for was second 1 suppose, the secret."""

ing for a shooting schedule.

Foot Lights," to show the

luxurious Front from various

In his more mellow moments

& 9.30 P.M. the United States. he will also give credit to the will follow her from the time world. It is not completed yet, retreats in

The story is As he fought in neither war English music-hall. He she learns she is to be à mother by any means.

about the attempted comeback this belligerence seemed un- born in London and his father urs the baby finally is bom

and aging English called for. Then for years there and mother of a worn

were both stage He would like to compress musle-hall carnic who falls in has been trouble about his not

Neither had much this into 40 days of filming, but love with a young dancer. The

becoming an American

citizen. People. comic

Chaplin,

course Chaplin remains a British sub-and-

Charilo had the age that is another problem,

"It is essential to honesty and fears he has lost his skill, his jeet after more than 40 years living this has made Chaplin AT 12.30 P.M.

realism to have our mother in wonderful talent for making in the United States. He is always count his dollars care- the movie played by an 'astress people laugh. So he tries the very English in manner and ac- fully. He became a member of Fairy Tale Cartoon

herself,"

It," comeback.

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Lads." He was a brillant tap to the audience, allther the aim is autobiographical, of the world.”

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eyes, Chaplin looks extraordinary fit.

His

He says: "I live in my very energy is limitless.

He dances secure house of cards. I am a E Arst went to the United with the into 'n room. Once at a press self-educated mun and don't conference which I attended he get everything I would like to Fred Karno Company, and kis

the hotel

suite, out of reading. I leave most of "A Night in an English Muste- glanced

the at tired, the reading to my wife. I have hall" was a resounding hit. The reporters, and said: "Well, an odd quirk in my sight; I see film career followed. First Mack here you are all young and only the first word and the Sennett and the Keystone Corps lovely." We were not young and last in a line on a page. Soma then the two-real comedies; and In recent years, Hollywood's the women were not lovely, but thing psychological in that, eh?" later the million dollars a year. the great outpouring of comie for a moment there were youth

genius, the dizzy peaks of suc- unwritten but long-standing and loveliness in the room. taboos on 60-called problem:

"The secret'

Should Be Married" & ENLARGING SERVICE pictures Have been slowly E- Chaplin is a dazzling perfor- 13 even la audience cinema fans m ed, and Hongkong vicly such small and especially when n

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the floor. He grimaces, guffaws, about this work I don't get Decomber as their parents did The latest to be shown here is waves ha expressive hands, aliafaellon out of it. now, at the c, and Liberty, nuds his bir hend Although it has little star appeal for ideal thang movie

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