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TN a room in St. Thomas's To some it is more-it is an

IN

opportunity. It was so to

Hospital, London, a this child of the theatre. man lay dying. He had

In the kaleidoscopic life of had a good life-a full life. London's mean streets he found

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He had wor

a measure of Fame as a singer. His home life had been happy. And now death had come for him.

While he was yet in thé prime of manhood, with success still sweet in his mouth, the curtain was falling-and for ever.

The other windows of the Stubbs Road hospital were dark. In this one

nlone a light burned. And be low it, outside in the darkness.. shivering with cold and num- heil with fear, a child stood sobbing.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. J. S. Smith takes this opportunity of banking the many friends fur all the expressions of sympathy: the floral trilates and those who were present at the funeral of his

dear wife..

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, Mar. 12, 1936,

FOR THE CHILDREN

He had been told that there was no hope, but his wild heart prayed for the miracle that could not happen, even while he waited for the light to go out and the compassionate hesita- tions that would tell him that his father was no more.

The dying mun and the child outside the window both bore the shme name Charles Chaplin.

Destiny shifts as here and there upon the chessboard of life, and we know not the pur pose behind the moves.

fis father's death brought a

Both the need for and the ap- preciation of the functions, dis- charged by the Children's Play safe, comfortable world crash- ground Association are well it ing about Charlie Chaplin's lustrated in the annual report of head, and plunged his mother, that organisation, just issued his brother, and himself into It is shown that the annual at- poverty.

But poverty is not a life tendance at the playing-grounds

It is a challenge. maintained by the Association sentence. reaches a figure of well over seven hundred thousand, and that on the Hongkong side the

most popular area, the Southern NOTES OF THE DAY

Playground, draws an average

daily attendance of five hundred KEEP THE COLONIES children, whilst the biggest ground in Kowloon provides

side by side.

He knew the problems of the poor, not from the aloof angle of the social investigator but at frat hand. They were his mother's problems and hia

own.

But the very struggle of life A new zest to common Rave things. So daily Charlie's keen yes noted some new aspect of the exposed expanse of life around him.

In somewhat similar circum- many years before. stances, another buy had found, amid the rank luxuriance of London life. a key to fame and fortune. He also had missed much that should be the birthright of every But the alchemy of child. genius transmuted bitterness and suffering into the gold of literature and gave us great The novels of Charles Dickens.

Between these two there is Both an essential similarity. knew hardness in childhood.. Both made their misfortunes 10 Nuccess, stepping-stones They developed along different lines, chose different mediums of expression, but both quarried in the same rich mine of com-

mon life and fund there tren- sure of laughter and drama for the delight of all mankind.

So we need not regret the shadows that fell over Charlie Chaplin's early life.

Without them his gifts might have shone less brightly, and the whole world would have heen poorer.

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We like to think of Charlie

Jackic Coogan

with Charlic

Chaplin in

"The Kid," ONS

of Chaplin's

preatest succoasts,

In the dwindling ranks of the film magnate left it at that. But British tramps one finds all now he was no longer bored.. sorts of people from the var. He had a new interest in life. sity graduate whose carcer has He returned to the attack. This ended in ruin and disgrace to time his offer was £30. Charlie the half-imbecile illiterate who still hesitated, but in the end he has been unemployable since accepted. And so to Hollywood boyhood.

and the beginning of the most cinema astounding career in history.

Even, to-day, when work is no tor secure, the longer easy American wanderer still refuses to acknowledge defent,

That indomitable spirit is an integral part of the make-up. of the screan Charlie Chaplin.

His portrayal of the underdog

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It is Mr. Chaplin's dream to play tragic roles as well as comic ones."

The man whose glorious fool- ing made "Shoulder Arms" a. with war-weary favourite

Genius is essentially a hardy plant. It thrives in the cast wind. It withers in hothouse. That is true in every walk of life. The reason the historic facilities for an average of three A vigorous campaign has deve-

in British families have produced hundred and fifty. A moment's loped in Great Britain, both

so many men of distinction is reflection will serve to give some Parliament and in the country, to

colonies and that, on the whole, they have impression of what this means safeguard British

great responsibilities to-youngsters-who, but for the mandated territories. We suggest borne

the agitation is timelyricu- rather than enjoyed great is definitely American rather veterans of the trenches wants. the existence of

British torcinterpret-Napoleon-to-the- British. The Association,

than larly when it is remembered that wealth, would have nowhere but the recently His Majesty's Ministers

working man has courage in world, There are other charac streets in which to play-offered large pieces of British ter-

plenty, but those whom pro- 'ters, as far removed from those Thanks to the facilities provid-ritory to a nation which had broken

has in which he desires to portray. NA

unemployment JATURALLY and inevitably, longed

Those who smile at these am- ed, happiness and healthy exer- treaty pledges and commenced n

on the road are often school days were forced once eise ure brought to these war of conquest. Imperialists are

Youthful Charlie broken and despairing. The bitions have not appreciated children, and they are enabled to asking: Is it for this our fathers over, the enjoy themselves without the built this Empire? Was it created Chaplin found his way on to Chaplin tramp has a quality of Chaplin's genius at its true

defiance and disdain.

worth. No mere clown, "how- But the American scene ay a

ever brilliant, could ever have. ever-constant danger from traf-to be given away to ambitious peo- the stage.

And when he was 21 he signed fle which is encountered in the ples as a price for peace? Cer-

a contract which took him to whole has influenced Chaplin captured so completely the af- streets. There is the furthertainly not. It was built with the blood and bones of British men and factor, of which sight should not women that their children's chil- the United States and Canada its variety, its colour, its anima- fections of the great public. He contrasts. And the States did a star to the fact that he is a be lost, that children who are dren might live in peace, security with the Fred Karno Comedy tion, its strange and spectacular owes his unrivalled position as provided with outdoor sports and comfort; and it was built Company.

more than this for the little great actor, who can tug at our as surely as he privileges are less likely to get strongly enough that if its pence This tour was, in some ways, English actor; they provided the heart-stringa

There into mischief during the time and security, wero threatened its as important to the develop opportunity for which, without compels our laughter.

some of his they have on their hands, whilst people could forego their comfortment of the Chaplin that we knowing it, he had been waiting. are moments, in

defend their rights. That the physical benefits which they sto secure must in the long run sounds very well to Imperialists, know as were his early days in They introduced him to the ideal films, of an almost unbearable

London. It one of the medium. for his genius, the poignancy. great formative experiences of motion picture.

It is a great achievement, and make them fitter and better wo imagine. And we sympathise

with the view.

his career.

one possible only to a consum- citizens. From all aspects, the work which the Association is But Economista, a new race of

a sultry day in July, mate actor, to command at once But it is tears and laughter.. doing is to be warmly commend-people, are making themselves

1913. A bored film magnate, the laughter which predomin- ed. But what has so far been heard. They are talking about the Chaplin as a Briton, but Ameri- I was

of the world's ca gave a new direction, a new Mr. A. Kessel, was strolling atos, and Mr. Chaplin is achieved is only a tithe of what redistribution

They say that edge to his quality. It opened along Broadway: natural resources.

perfectly right in desiring an is needed in this Colony. There

Pausing at Hammerstein's opportunity of playing straight should be dotted about, on both some nations have too many, and to him new fields of character

other nations have too few. Some and circumstance. sides of the harbour, dozens of of the more radical of the refor

Music Hall to chat with the tragedy. Twenty-five years ago, when inanager, he heard roar upon Until he does so, his pathos playing-grounds, catering es-mers would have Great Britain give |

crossed the roar pecially to children who live in away some of her colonial posses- the young actor

of laughter. The sound will be regarded as merely a by- It had been a product of his toothbrush unsavoury and overcrowded sions-just us another race of re- Atlantic, life in the States was interested him. localities. Such "lungs" are an formers wanted Britala to give more fluid than in England long time since anyone had moustache and the ludicrous absolute necessity in the in-away or scrap her Navy a few years more fluid, perhaps, than it is made him laugh. terests of public health. But all ago. But colonies and navica are to-day. Its forms had not set. "I expect it's that young Probably had it not been for

were more im- Chaplin that's causing these things require funds, in essential to the well-being of an Personalities

the the coming of the talkies we cackle," which connection we should like Empire, comes the retert. And so portant than conventions.

said the manager. would already have seen this Class distinctions mattered "He's pretty good."

groat star in a serious role. He to underline the appeal of the we have a deadlock. Association for further financial: Besides, the colonica themselves comparatively little when the So in went Mr. Kessel to see is the ong figure of the old silent support. It is disclosed that the should have something to any about assistant of to-day was so often the Fred Karno Comedy Com- screen to whom the triumph of funds secured during the past it. Wo cannot imagine a plebiscite the employer of to-morrow, and pany perform "A Night in the spoken word has meant year came from sixteen clubs in Hongkong giving this colony to and associations, with only eight anyone but Britain. Besides, we the majority of professional London Music Hall" and to in- neither speech nor extinction.

He relies, as of old, upon a subscriptions from individual have no very great natural re- men had paid for their univer- vestigate young Chaplin.

sity training with the work of Soon he was laughing with pantomime that is more expres- donors. As the Committee re-

sources, except our climate.

their hands..

the rest of the audience. But sive than talk. But while the marks, it is difficult to believe But perhaps there is a measure

Even poverty wore a different, when Mr. Kessel laughed in a silence of Charlie Chaplin has that only eight individuals in of comfort for the reformers in the

mirth meant the Colony consider the Associa-thought that mandated territories face in America. It was not place of public entertainment lost none of its former magic, business. would Mr. Charles Chaplin, in tion worthy of financial support. may be juggled about for the good the Ditter, grinding destitution his

of the whole world. Now that we | Charlie had encountered in Round he went to the back, was a role of a kind completely un-

ushered The greater the measure of have a League of Nations, which

into Chaplin's tiny familiar to his audiences, and monetary holp given, the wider already holds a mandate over sonię

dressing-room, and at once pro of which they would almost will be the scope of the Associn-areas, why not place all mandated "In many

cases it

ceeded to offer him $15 a week certainly be highly critical, be tion's activities. Perhaps a re-territories under Its supervision? poverty deliberately chosen, to play in Keystone comedies, able to "get away with it". minder of the health and happi-When others signify their willing rather than imposed from with. It was more money than he had Pantomime, of which he is a ness which the Association is ness to surrender the right of mun-out.

ever carned before, but Charlie master, is capable of expressing bringing into the lives of the date we are pretty certain Britain

..every emotion, of communicat- Every cinema-goer is familiar sald "No." poor children of the Colony will will agree to abandon hers. Un-

That only made Mr. Kessel Ing the subtlest shades of mean- induce a greater measure of fortunately, however, we are not with the Chaplin tramps, but public assistance than is at pre-the only people who like the sound how many of them have reflected more determined. He raised his ing. A man who can act with sont forthcoming.

of the slogan: "What we have, we how characteristically American bld to £20 a week. Still Charlie his whole body has no need of hold"

are these homeless walderers. said "No." For the moment the words, whatever part he plays.

London.

Was

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Chaplin walk.