1952-11-22 — Page 11

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The Chaplin Story 9: After The Joan Barry Case--

LIFE BEGINS WITH OONA

UST before Christ- for Bussi, and this led to fur-

mas,

1942,

By Colim

.

Frame

ather attacks,

Some pollicluna shouted for wretched girl aflame his deportation. Others encertd with the glamour of at the fact that, although he is her hatt enjoyed the hospitality of Hollywood"--that own counsel's description- the United States for 30 years, lie had never bocomo a citizen. stormed into Chaplin's

nursery with Chaplin's reply was to admit has filled his Beverly Hills home, woke that he had been a guest"but children.

There are four Ittle Chaplins him up and run round the a paying guest," he flashes.

the United bedroom brandishing a pis have paid

Statos now, Geraldine, Josephing and £2,500,000 in Victoria and one boy, Michael. tol and threatening to shoot taxes since I have been here.

something like

In their velns run mingled herself.

FL was The start of "the . I am

which Barry case"

dragged world." Chaplin, achen and haggard,

States though United for two appalling years,

Joan Barry, ຕ 20-year-old redhent. hu a child, Carcl Ann, In 1942 and claimed that Chaplin, wh the father.

This Tragedy.

he

Business

of

or enter.

AT

50"

up in toll and tribulation, mak- Ing fooln of themselves bul somehow preserving a brave, dignified

"These middle years are the They saw themselves caughl mellow ones when the agonies and tensions of youth are over. They are the years when a man is truls himself when he stops dreaming about the future and lives in the present.

Only he knows how much of this comfortable philosophy is due to the love and care of Mrɛ Chaplin the Fourth.

This mellow mood helped him to face the strongest criticism of his film-making to date which

premieres of greeted the "Monsieur Verdoux,

Many critics both in London and New York found it a doubtful joke. They queried its taste and its message.

Some of the old Charlie

Failure

completely

This bank clerk, with logic untempered by of the century es his or her moral standards, obtained on forebears have been on the first income for his wife and family. foolish and useless women and Meanwhile Chaplin is intent on by making love in a series of

then murdering them for their mancy.

and all-conquering attitude to the blows of late.

But in "Monsieur Verdoux" ordinary folk could not imagine themselves as the little bank clerk, Murder could never be funny to them,

Puzzled Frowns They could mare easily 29 Miss imagine themselves Martha Raye who failed the attempt to drown her by in- recently regarding Ita ham- handed love-making.

So the film, which did quite woll in Europe but budiy in

NEXT SATURDAY Charlic recaptures the old.. _magic_in_"Lime:_ light," his latest film,

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which has London background, and Claire Bloom, a London actress, as its leading lady,

I feel just as American as Bri- the blood of one of the most could still be seen in the film the States and lost Chaplin # cllizen of the brillant playwrights the but this time he was a spruce several thousands of pounds century and that of "the Arst French bank clerk with waxed overall, was generally regarded Several years later, when the genius of the cinema"-clown, moustache and over-immacuinte is briliantly satirical but one

composer, dancer,

to more clothes and patches of his ex- which led

puzzled couris hullaballeo had died away and musician,

quisite foolery were few and frowns than cheerful smiles. secure director. Chaplin felt calm and

People pined for the return Laws of heredity might well far between. ain to continue Alm-making be put to shame if at least one

of the baggy trousers and the Monsieur Ver- producca

battered bowler-and, the en- doux. Sat dalat the back of the Chaplin children co

dearing Innocence of Charlie. ground of

of the Barry case and not turn out to be as great an the bliter attacks made on hin tainment during the second half

influence on the art

arts the film is a nlee study in psy- It was agreed by both parties chological release, that she had been Chaplin's cho

It is the tale of a little man inistress, but Chaplin claimed whe, failing to make an honest giving his children the sort of that relationship ended in February 1942.

Barry ving. makes a Dig Joon claimed that it was resumed on out of murdering women for joyous childhood he.missed. He

their insurance money, and it is their favourite playmate that night when she broke In

ends with is going to the gull- and what child would not have and

matte

а versatile and funny man He "failed In one case and a seene. Much more flowed from this lotine with the words: "I am at Suc

They picnic the reasons for that fallure tragedy

peace with God-my quarrel is in the nursery? with men."

They voyage on the show, by a paradox, the reasons together. paternity action.

yacht Panacea, exploring the why many people came away Oona's Loyalty Californian coast. The public proseculor charged

swimming from "Monsieur 'Verdoux" Chaplin under the Mann Act

Not funny, many people fishing. Chupin today re-thinking that it was hardly a

vels in the sort of which prohibits taking a woman thought. Hardly true Chaplin.

marclage Chapin Alm. from one State to another for But it might

most ordinary folk enjoy but

one In the un- s have been

truly riotous immoral purposes, This

which has in the past ølways case funnier still had it not

Chaplinesque been

Verdoux dragged on until February 1044; for the fact that Chaplin was an understanding wife and a

cluded him-a partnership with failed to kilin vulgar woman when

it was finally dismissed in love again and happily mar- bolsterous happy family.

played with hearty good- a jury.

humour by Martha Raye. ried.

IC Chaplin, with a police cap-

shows that, honest Oona O'Neill, for the Jast

vulgarity will always conquer evil," said a judge who had sen- and

nine

years the fourth tenced Miss Barry as a vagrant, Charles Chaplin, came into his

Chaplin, explaining the point. were joint defendants in a fu- life in 1942 and married him in

And there les one secret of ther charge that they had con-

the success of all previous spired to deprive Miss Barry of June, 1943, a few days

Chaplin alms and the compara- gled Joan Barry had

tive failure of this one. People, paternity action..

It was, on the bart at

as he often said, Identified of the

themselves

hls with raven-haired, brown-eyed Miss

little man. O'Neill, a superb demonstration of loynity.

by

than

the normal

charge

her civil rights. This could not be upheld and it was dropped.

New Trial

Three doctors conducted blood test and found evidence

Mrs

after ker

She was only eighteen. that Chaplin could not possibly Chaplin was 54. Hollywood re- have been the baby's

"the

evidence which would Sarded it as very much

mixture as before" and gave ly, be

held conclusive in British the marriage a year or two of courts.

But

the Californian life. It bag

in lastod,

fact, courts do not recognise the In- longer than any Chaplin mar fallibility of such blood tests ringe. and the case dragged on

into

"Esoteric" was the word she 1945 when a jury failed to used to describe her

relation- agree. A new trial was order ship with Chapin, It was her

arsi and it has been her

cd.

last

and

He has paid dearly to find it. previous marriages are es- thing like £500,000 in actions. timated to have cost him some- and alimony,

hi

"Life" he suid with all old boyish anthusiasm not long go, "begins at 50. It certainly. does not begin at 40--that is an understatement.

E

scene

KNAVES SPOIL A CARD GAME

absurd

From HENRY LOWRIE

Washington, crease in American tariffs: "12. In April, 1945, a jury decided

public utterance. on the sub-VEN for Chicago It was our exporting Industries are to that Chaplin was Carol Ann's

La an odd and terrifying prosper" it says, "wo must father and he was ordered to It was a strange word which

end to a party.

-import in greater-than-present puy £18 a weeic for the baby's sent people scurrying to thoir

dictionaries. She meant that it Seven men wearing masks and volume or conținua to extend this was a relationship which sheach carrying a revolver burst foreign economie pld and make emerged, from ordeal shaken and and Chaplin had worked out into the Austin Jowish Com more or loss dubious loan of embittered. He had faced a rask and one which they, and no munity Contra.. of imprisonment for up to 23 one else, could properly under- One hundred and fifty wealthy ex-derived (unds,"

Guests were playing cards me years and a probability of de- stand.

"Greater buying from charity. The gunmen ordered outside world will be a form of

the

portation if the Mann Act An Aloofness them to lie down and throw extending economie atd by charge had been successful.

He had faced three times in Use of that word was typical their pocket-books and valuables which we shall get something something like 30 days of court of her quiet humour her on the floor. hearings

a, violent cross-exami- upbringing. For ber father,

his private affairs. nation

Eugene O'Neill, on

the victim "I am hysteria," he announced. "The playwright. public want a victim and they

of

had

the remaining Jewellery.

Then the bandits walked

directly in exchange for what strung the prone people and tore of we yield."

over

f

war words together like pearls as Not content with this £14,000 N Saltio, Algip Handley, ageti

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47, gets lvorce because

Oona has been describeħi q5/fiaul, the thieves; took time to his wife once refused to lot him.

are prosecuting me for the same a plain-dressing lain-living coop up all the coats, including reason they went after_gang-.

A few minka, from the cloak-ove ha faleg teeth,

and plain-looking on Income tax charger woman, which seems hardly Attacks

Chaplin CAING to accord with New York from

other quarters in

those Glamour Girl of 1062,as, aho years. He was accused by robld was once voted.: Icojulionists of trying to em:,, broil the United States in war of mystery about her an sloof by maing The Great Dieta ness wiilch Hollywood nude in

tidguing. But there is no mys- Chaplin,nover fearful of lory about the fact that the speaking his mind, addresett a has made Chaplin a supremoly THE rally in favour of American aid hoppy and contented man and

young room.

Then they exaped in two cars.

Metropolitan Opera Com

Thore is. Undouble JANNE LA: pany has an ambitious plan

ton MD 2 HA

to play to 100,000 subscribera. across the country, I wills ho done with. TV "piped through a closed clrcult.

Sold the judge; that was cruelty,

scared

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