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By Dilys Powell

Years ago, when the word Russia could still be uttered

In a drawing-room without ringing a flush to anyone's cheeks. I once heard Charlie Chaplin talking about the USSR.

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He spoke with eloquence and authority tea-Table, the company hal !d t. pl worked up 15 a peroration tuli of emunuais for the Bolshevik syslera; the he stopped suddenly; there was & long respectful bush, until at fast Lytton Strachey caused hus beard and sald in a piercing

It may be all right mournfully) like it at all

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KENT

SHOW TALK MEETS FOUR FIGHTERS

CALVERT

LOCKWOOD

DORS

The slump victims are back in the money

by Harold CONWAY

Do you recall that sudden unloading of British con- "tract stars and starlets- the during the big film depres

sion a year ago? It seemed bas if the screen's one-time the cinemas were full up; he glamour queens were facing must join a queue for several the rigours of unemploy- ment.

d a new study of Chaplin. The Little Felles. Peter totes and Thelma Niklas Elok, pastrated. 15s.. Perhaps stany is too pompous a word li this affectionate account of hu attor's career, it is a book which i have cujoyed reading, but i

is

-even som

Cinemagoers could have spared their tears. These stars. book for reference; if the

of the starlets insture. wanted facts about

are tough fighters beneath the the fibus I should find them in glamour; and they have ! greater detail in Theedore

doing very nicely for Hui's Index to the Films of selves. Charles Chaplım" tone of an in- Lispensable series published by Margaret Lockwood hus bad

been them-

Pe Bush Film Institute) Alla non-stop (and highly profit- The satee, "The Little Fellow costblaes

reasonable

amount tet abrat Chaplin's work with a biography which, though Brather gossipy in tone, tells us a god deal about the carly life aud g ves what I am inclined to think is an accurate impression of the enigmatic personality.

-

a

able) stage tour for the

past six months, soon begins work on a Herbert Wilcox Alin of that Trent's Lasi classle thriller, Case

con-

months. He did not think so- at the picture was sent round the country

With

is assured of a financial return

at least double its cost. The profits Stross has been able to line up an all-star cast for his second picture, "The Tall Headlines -headed by Mai Zet- terling again.

Michaci plus Denson, Flora Robson and Dennis Price

And this time the once-snub-

the

instead, without bed producer does not antici- the West End (or the critics) pale any queueing-up for

West End. seeing it

(World Copyright Reserved-London To date, "Hell Is Sold Out"

Express Seruice.}

The Capitol Launches Out With A

Blood

And Thunder Film

By SUE DAWSON

on

B

Phyllis Calvert is Unual demand as a free-lance, can now pick and choose her subjects: 21-year-old Diana Dors Just-laughs off that For Chaplin, like all men of "Charm School" label by land- genius. is far from being

a Hollywood contract. ing isi

With blood and thunder indeed: he does everything straple chaineler. The book But it is Jean Kent Last

childhood in the Rank

Mero should: schemes his way star out ct deses his

Denham the maiden Capitol WAS Lakes the prize launched

out of the Legion prison by squalid corner of Lambeth where Studios--who

Thursday promising the stony Lieutenant be and his brother Sydney lived for lucrative independence. evening. Its newly with his widowed mother,

All, 1951 was

to di frat the band of Riffs when laken up for

veiled screen flashed for the he he, just learnt are planning former music-hall singer: run-

her by tours in two plays

time in first

to 1,300 Ha to attack the garrison; battles ning wild in the streets, selling with a comfortable share

and defeats newspapers, for

And sembled people the techni-

through wgenious the takings each week. a time during

many

of the enemy: tro-and

of Riff who rehearsing institution for bomeless children, new

bren deadly enemies from simultaneously to, a radio play The early private years remain,

and and a new stage play.

uniting over the marriage of understandably. confused

Her slage reappearance will

one leader's daughter with the obscure. But Chaplin's

be

head of "The Moonraker,"

the fessional life on the stage begun romance

other tribe about Roundhead-

(which he does by galloping off early, and with it the ascertaint-Cavalier times, ret heard

the girl,

clutched first W with a the air. It opens in Cambridge

under one arm and then slung child clog dancers troupe of

Griffth on January 28, with

across his horse) and then called the Eight Lancashire Lads Jones co-starring, before com-

outwit the Riffs several times {"by the time he was eight ing to the West End.

before almost put to death.

getting captured years old he was ulready

HER LOVE STORY

means

his mother's illness living in an she begins 1952 by making a colour adventures of that stops two tribes

intrepid, almost legendary had force: the Foreign Legion.

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NEXT CHANGE ONE DAY ONLY CHARLIE

CHAPLIN in "THE GREAT DICTATOR"

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а Stories."

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Sam

A

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The choice was a good one. Columbia's latest, and one bound to appeal to all the different People who

first saw it that night and on the days following. Not the well-worn Weslem

and thunder, but the spell of mile upon lonely mile of sand dune, an eastern desert- as Billy the office boy in "Sher-Goldwyn's Hans Andersen Alm East Africa, the Isolated lock Holmes;" an appearance in because she is expecting

garrison town whose multifarious the first performance of "Peter baby, has now accepted that Legionnaires are tied as no Pan" (as one of the wolves).

act rival offer from MGM-lo contract tles a human being. Must people know that he and dance in "Three Love Desertion can only lead to came by his training បទ

recapture, death from the hands comedian with Fred Karno, bul This is a much shorter jod, of the enemy-those nomad many will be surprised by which is

hich is why she can take it Riffs, or from the burning Karne's first report on the boy: on. Miss Shearer joins France's desert, porched and merciless. pale, puny, sullen-looking Leslie Carron and Italy's Fier INVEIGLING TITLE youngster. I must say that Angeli in the new picture → ་་ "Ten Tal Men" is not an when first saw him, I thought possibly the screen's most at-inveigling tile. It sounds more he looked nich too shy to do tractive international

of like a fairy story, a sort of any good in the theatre, par-personalities at the moment.

Tame Timice" affair. ticularly in the

I can't imagine the great Sam This is unfortunate, for though knockabout comedies that

beaming at this sequel. The bas a fairy story ending like

in speciality." At seventeen years

MGM certainly

stands old "he wasn't very likeable," for Goldwyn; but he has long most good tales of adventure

suitable enough for said Karno.

been in professional opposition and

convincing, full of children, i to Anybody who has ever met

seem, him will surely agree that success

ake money in the film busi-excitement and not completely a Dess If you are a producer schoolboy's picture. has turned the unsociable boy is to get shut out of the West Burt Lancaster as Sergeant who "lived like a monk and puEnd. Early last year ou year- Mike Kincard most of his salary away in the old bank as soon as he get it" into old Raymond Stross, who had

were

my

Оле

way,

it would

most other

trio

things in the

as

He

a man of extraordinary charm; been certainly a man who has shaken business, entered the field

an independent producer. off his diffidence: a Hollywood made a pleture called "Hell is friend of mine told me a few Sold Out with Richard Atten- years ago that Chaplin not only borough and Mai Zelterling, as liked talking about his own films, stars, for the low sum of £80,- he would insist on acting the 1000 or thereabouts.

story right through in great de- When it come to a West End tall, playing every part himself showing, Mr Stross was told But he remains A

creature, subject

its theme.

*

fita to

moody of

tenacious sadness.

It is the con- opinions of which the incident trast between the brilliant, related at the beginning of this famous Chaplin and the article gives an example. melancholy solitary to whom he As I say, he is not a simple sometimes reverts that gives Mr character." But his very errors Cotes's and Miss Niklaus's book of flamboyance and vanity go towards the making of a great The authors say that the party artist. When I look at the mean-

ingless

faces and read the poverty which becounts for the corded utterances of some of our contradictory character of the contemporary stars I sometimes man inade him an enemy of wonder how these vulgur simple- modern society, and that he heu been attacking society in his films bou can ever have taken in any

body. I do not belleyə tət a true. ever since, from the first talent in one sphere of artistic

down ploces

to achievement can be otherwise

the contrary, the to show

stopstick

"Montlour Verdoux." The theory nonehtily,ery Bimal

fte npally enough as far as it evidence of goes; and while Chaplin has af- that a man who is somebody In Lacked society, *ẞclely his certainly hit back at him. one way. Is somebody all round;

And Chaplin is just such a man;j

He has been adored, but he somebody all round: an artist has also been detested: detested whose actions, even when we for the luxuriance or his matri- dislike them, mean something, moniel

extra-matrimonialTM and whome praepce can make

and

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is

is very heroic

with

and

AUDACIOUS STROKE The final audacinus stroke is to lift the heroine Mahla (Jody Lawrance) from under the nops of the husband-to-be while the marriage ceremony is actually going on, and to marry her himself when he and six of the

tem tail

reach men

the garrison and a hero's welcome.

Mahla is really beautiful and most spirited; riding, shooting, fighting and fainting with the best of them. Debonair Mike has a wonderful knack for pep talks and getting out of dim- hes ch is as it shid be with B hero Legionnaire.

Verdict: A very enjoyable hour or two if you surrender to the traditional adventure story, which, sometimes secretly, ap- peals to the youth in everyone. And why not?

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