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a downcast look, tuttered hat, baggy trousers, shoes of After that he got a part play- half esantys

pathos and times, been persecuted, pro-

hated 05 well gargantuan dimensions with ing page boy in Conan Doyle's uproariously funny comedies in aecuted,

"Sherlock Holmes." The pro- the anelent tradition. Then in admired. The bigger the odds soles peeling gently ducer handed him a script, and the

the First National

against him, the more he has from the uppers, a cane, Charlie was too ahy to admit Exhibitor's Circuit, organisa- enjoyed life,

he couldn't rend. and, of course, a moustache that

His tion founded to exploit his ple- mother read out the lines to tures, signed him up for him at home, and he memorised million dollars. of them for the first rehearsal.

The result is a kind magic.

is

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His first three marriages al- most certainly went on the rocks because few women could live with the Chaplin philosophy of life for long.

Charlic produced "The

Arot the For the next eleven years he Immigrant."

of his worked in music halls.

Then

satires on the American way of a his chance came.

tradi- The Fred life-the beginning of

life, to him, has always been win to a Karno Comedy Company offered tion which

end in a a natural sequence of ups and

Charlie Chaplin clown, but

more than clown; he is an idea, but more than an idea.

him a job as a leading comedian special Congressional investiga- downs in which nothing mattera and he went to New York: His tion.

but the eventual triumph of the "drunk" act in a show called

germ of humanity. Those who "A Night in a London

"A Dog's Life" followed, and Music

faith on something his then

early masterpiece, pin their

permanent, but

MOTO "Shoulder Arms"-the story of less the bewildered little man sud- tangible, are apt to find him in- by B war he comprehensiblo denly engulfed

He has held the affections Hall"

won him immediate

of the world for half I acclaim, The impression, how- century,

is ever. didn't last, and he spent his nume synonymous with

gentle the next two years on the "B" American vaudeville, circuit in laughter, and the tears be

would be 11 happened that Mack has produced

Sonnett, whe directed the enough to wash away a

Keystone Film Company, saw cinema.

him perform one night. Weeks later, Sennett started thinking about Charlle.

The explanation is probably to be found in

life his own history.

tween Lambeth and Brixton,

UPROARIOUS

doesn't understand.

The same year, he formed the Chartle Chaplin Film Company to make his own films.

PERSECUTED

As the

As

They

arc forced to invent

careful to keep his heroes Communist. human, to avoid the over monger.” simplicity of the downtrodden

thought the spectacle of men trying vainly to keep pace with machines was ludicrously funny. And so it was. That, perhaps, was part of the trouble,

It is true, of course, that he accepted a Stalin Peace Prize- after the Americans threw him out.

But what did he do with He gave it to the Roman Catholic Abbe Plurre.

it?

Real life has seldom produced a belly laugh to top that one.

By JENNIFER JOHNS

Washington INVITED to the wedding of a close friend last 'week I was struck by a phenomenon of American life that is so universal here today that-unless, one is involved personally - scarcely notices it. Briefly, this phenomenon is that Americans лге marrying younger than ever before.

one

On this occasion, the groom was a graduate student, the bride д merr college junior-ond both were heading back to the university to take up their studies again after their honey-

moon.

never-

Without looking back too far I can recall my own university days when the college BU- thorities

have would allowed such a thing. In those days, in fact, giris (and boya) marrying in

their carly tecris were looked upon elther as the victims of too-lax parnio - or as plain juvenile delinquents.

MARRIED QUARTERS

has

NOW, however, all that

changed. At colleges through- but the

country, paciced with students in their carllest teens, it is becoming mury and more usual to find brand new build-

set

ов apart ings

married And one Or quarters.

two colleges have oven gone as far RA establishing nurseries prai kindergarten where the chill dren

play happily their parents go hand hand to the classroom.

can

while

Fur from being expelled from college, young girls are now con- sidered spinater-flowers if they aren't on the verge of an engage- before they finish their studies

75

are

In 1800 most American mera their first marriage had made vows by the time they were 20. Now the averago age is while the average age of their wives

they is 20. And

Switzerland

In fact, that than Now he lives peaceably in molding rapidly Dropping sa

with

fourth 70 percent of all American girls wife. Oona, daughter of Ameri- between 20 and 24

are now can playwright Eugene O'Neil, | married and 30 percent of all and their five children. But he American girls have had their is still at it.

first children by the time they are 19.

PACIFIST

sceno

BABY BOOM

to-

IN addition, once Mr and Mrs -America Junior have been something else to explain him HE is returning to England to make a new picture, It will be called "The Little King," and married there is, ap to speak, no stopping them, and whereas the American Congressmen bulit it will have "a pacifist plot,"

children used to appear on the him up into a Communist bogey

or three

year Just

Charlio because, otherwise,

at two they

made its pacis intervals most American mothers couldn't figure out what he was clear, probably, just to annoy

(thanks to have them When he read that Con- the Congressmen come more. It now up to. No couldn't remember

almost certainly be as hospital facilities, pre-natal and Charlie's name but he wired a

years went by there Rressmen wondered whether he will

"as close was ¤ Communist, ho

care) wrote funny as it is biting. And its post-natal He was born in Kennington description to

New

A was less slapstick and more them it

York

a letter: "Maybe I can propaganda? Charlie is certainly gether as

as possible. n April 16, 1880, Kennington, agency. After a long search satire. Yet Charlie was always help you," he said. “I at'not a a pacifist. But, then, be prob- Not surprisingly this attitude the grey, soot-stained stretch of Charlle was found.

am Д peace ably thinks the spectacle of man is producing something of а London south of the Thames be-

caught up ogain

in his own baby boom. During the war m machinations is still funny, increase in the baby population

And even

If you don't lice Wes put down to the wish

thousands of American mothers that, there will still be Chaplin to be left at least with a child the composer. Charlie, of laven if their husbands were 'course, (the man who plays the

killed. This

explanation plano on the white keys only d

been proved phoney, for in 1947, and the violin left-handed) is when the peak of the war baby NOTHING has ever alarmed writing all the music.

boom was long past, a number of bables will be able to stay

3,824,000 private showing of "The with Great Dictator

and the Con-Americans. Finally, in 1964, Lig gressmen will probably find number of babies born reached themselves sneaking off, to see the all-titne record folal

4,000,000. Charlie the pacifist.

was the perfect backdrop to a . Chaplin ilm.

Ha inhabitants, hard-working.

the

good man in the wicked world. - Even that, of course, is not

quilo true. There is the scene in "The

honest, friendly, were nonethe H was signed on at $25 a week Champion" (1915) in which he 11 (soon raised to $125) and goes to a fighter's training camp recipients of the he went to Hollywood. Sennett to look for a job as a sparring custard

thrown pics

by wanted him to become another partner. As he goes in, he sees bustling industrial capitalism Keystone Cop.

a long une men being carried hell-bent on the acquisition of

out on stretchers, wealth. Hunger was comman

He said he and slips a horseshoe

DISASTER

Charlie said no.

the

And Charlie has gone on play- ing the tramp ever since.

world roaring drunk.

MACHINES

He shrugs N the Congresumen so much as

Who

has

record were born.

into his Modern Times"-the satire on away? Even Hitler had to have Ant. 1952 broke, brand". "Spin

In Kennington, and men were wanted to play д ramp-a glove. And there are scenes in often bewildered and sometimes tramp who suddenly finds him- his flims in which

he elopes Man and the Machine in which skins are deftly bitter. Yet they retained, as self in a big hotel, lost, forlorn with other men's wives, picks great banana Londoners always have, the and desperately trying to old men's pockets, accosts the placed beneath the Great Ameri- essential human dignity and insinuate himself into

can Dream as well as the Great American Boss, good humour so characteristic of crowd. Sennett relented, Charlle a Chaplin hero,

played the tramp.

Perhaps the greatest of them

- But ali, "Modern Times," reaches a

the Congressmen forget climax In which Chaplin. that the satire is an distressing Arrested

to the because he can't pay them.

Communist as it is to for his meal, distracts the police-

In 1936, when a group Iri 1914 he made the Arst man's attention while he orders of Russian commissars first saw

comedy CHARLIE'S parents were music multi-reel

Tille's himself a fat cigar from a kiosk they were raging mad. hall artists who had mo- Punctured Romance.". He was and orders up a stack of candy Russia, after all, had just set up ments of Success and long promptly, offered $1,000 a week. periods of destitution. They But he turned it down. He in which he deftly distributes its first conveyor belts, and their

to admiring chlidren.

dream, too, was the mechanised had

and elsted on $1,075. "The $75," together

society. Charlie

and his older brother, explained, "is to live on. The Syd, spent their earliest years rest is to go into bonds.

Thus started fortune.

a in theatre dressing rooms and dreary theatrical lodgings.

act an

Disaster came early with the death of his father, Then his mother became seriously ill. She WOJ taken to hospital and Charlio and his brother wers left penniless.

Authorities tried to take them to an orphanage, but Charlie inverted a. Betitiotu qurit and like the little girl in "Modern Times," escaped into the world.

For a time he and his, brother

wandered the streets, sleeping |

in the open, stealing fruit from

barrows and eating garbage.

Then they encountered a car

penter who offered them the

he

The odds against him are, al- ways overwhelming. But half Charile didn't like -machines, the fun lles in his cunning and. He still doesn't. Ho down't like "The

them Floorwalker." "The amorni dodges to defeat them.

because

they constrict Fireman." and "The Pawnshop" In real life, he has amassed a humanity. But that was only

been followed-gentle, half slapstick, fortune,

mauried four half the story. Charlie also

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HIMALAYAN EXPEDITIONS

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New Delhi. in Nepalese territory, but on' region so as not to annoy

the

shelter of his toolshed, There is threatening past one extreme northy Chlme

Now, or a new appeasement

they slept on the shavings and

"No more Everest Western border claimed by the earned a fow pennies carving expeditions." Nor any other pe toys out of blocks of waste wood mountaineering ventures and selling them to neighbour.

,

Chinese,...

'measure, the Nepal Govern- ment is preparing to declare its The politicians who rim Nepal 700-mile Tibetan frontier "out

arque. They have ing children. Eventually au- among the icy peaks that are not enger, at this stage, to of bounds."

enough No foreigners will be allowed thority caught up and the boys hodgo off the Gurkha king- trouble within the country, within two dayar trekk of Tibet went to an orphanage.

dom from Chinese-occupied, racked as it is by political agita-without a apecial Dam. Zha tion, without v risking a clash, pass, I am told, “will be very When his mother was relocand Tibet.

over a few miles of barren hard to gas indeed ühistusM from hospital, she and her three

mountain.

That could mean do more at- demos on Everine (24,

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