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OCORDING to film statistics "The Four Horsemen," "Ben Hur," "The Big Parade," - "The Birth of A Nation,"
"Cavalcade," "The Covered Wagon," "Tho Jazz Singer," "Sunny Side Up," "Broadway
THEN I wrote a bio- Melody," "The Cock-Eyed graphy of Charlie World," and "College Days” ago' I have each earned more money
vellous development in safety Chaplin six years
and comfort prevents the car called my story a Romance than either "The Kid" or "The Gold Rush," while-in this or- from rolling back after you have of Reality.
der of money merit-"City come to a stop on any upgrade,
I said: The Reality is that Lights" is placed 35th.. Even the most steep or slight.
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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936.
THE STRAIN OF DIPLOMACY
men.
They will tell you that "The Singing Fool" carned as much money as "The Kid" and "The Gold Rush" together.
Still KING-
Happy Ending.
were
of the
Screen?
Filmgoers are as sensitive to the experiness of film producers football spectators are to the cleverness of Alex James.
"
What has been the cumulative effect on filmgoera of films such as "Mutiny on the Bounty," "The House of Rothschild," "Dinner at Eight," "Little Kid from Women" "The
1.The Private Life of Spain," Henry VIII. "The Scarlet Pimpernel," "The Ghost Goes West," "David Copperfield," "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,' and many others of the same superb technical standards? The Real Pictures Chaplin, FOLLOWING the private view
NOTES OF THE DAY comparable to that of Charlie was equally popular in Britain
BAD MONEY
This high place he had won by his short films long before Hard-headed men of business he began to make full-length who live by ledgers will tell you feature films. Many people, short films that 12 films in the past 21 indeed, think his years have each earned more contained his finest work. money than any film produced
Success came to Charlie by Charlie Chapsin.
Chaplin at once.
peted. They
of "Modern Times" last Within a year of his going to Lloyd, and Buster Keaton.
young become n Hollywood he had
More recently two of the most week, I overheard a vital factor in the history of
well liked stars have been the woman say, "I think he is ter- ribly funny, but let's go to a films.
late Marie Dressler and the late real picture this afternoon."
Marie Dressler The only personal success Will Rogers.
I wonder if that is typical of Chaplin has been won by and the United States. The the modern filmgoer? Harold Lloyd, who began his humour of Will Rogers was not
Certainly Charlie Chaplin is film career in 1913, just a few properly appreciated in Britain, We are going to join the chorus month before Charlie Chaplin, but in the United States he was a great actor, There are mo- His Winkle and Lonesome Luke more greatly beloved than any ments of ecstatic comedy in "Modern Times," but not once of complaint against the passing comedies were splendidly suc other star.
does Charlie attempt to be an and he gained both of bad money. The situation in cessful,
The quality of pathos is to be artist in filmeraft as it is prac- Arm-chair critics, who never
this Colony, particularly with res-popularity and prestige with
He is content to be an artist in tire of criticising statesmen and pect to ton-cent pieces, is too such films as "College Days," found in the work of all these tised to-day in talking pictures. politicians, seldom give serious grave to be ignored. When one is "Girl Shy," "Safety Last," "Hot stars.
Pathos was the most constant himself regardless of the art of Often the camera, and he is still bril- aim of the silent film. thought to the great strain given four spurious ten-cent pieces Water," "Grandma's Boy," and
out of a total of five, in change, "The Cat's Paw."
the aim was poor-and the re- liantly comical.? which has to be endured by and begins to feel that the "ramp" Competitors
ault was bathos.
Does this make him king of the film world as it is to-day, nation's leaders in times of is being overdone and that it is
We IN contrast to Charlie Chaplin,
Since the coming of dialogue or of a film world which has crisis such as we are now wit-time for individual action.
Harold Lloyd has elected to film drama has become
more vanished? recent nessing. The
that if produce talking pictures, and diversified Budden have heard more than one indig-I
appeal, nant gentleman threaten death in London of the German taxi drivers or theatre box office his latest film, "The Milky analysis of the films of 1935 Ambassador, who had been over- keepers, public conveyance ticket Way," of which I have glowing shows 27 clearly defined and or an abdication?
the takers, or anyone else, ever tried advance reports, is shortly due different types of drama: hence taxing his strength in strenuous work he had been to pass on a bad ton-cent piece to at the Carlton Theatre, in the the controversy which arises
him he would do something reck-
It will be like old times with called upon to discharge in con- leas. One commences to sympathise
ones who have Chaplin and Lloyd competing nection with the European situ- with these irate ation, is a timely reminder been "stung" when one also be- for popular favour, ̧-
We are informed Eight to twelve years ago of the heavy calls on mental comes a victim.
of the case of one man, whose three film comedians thus com- energy which modern diplomacy experience in the game of "pass demands from those in high the dud" probably constitutes a office. And yet, so far as the record; but a record which stands! small chance of survival. He pald able to outside observer is
for a theatre ticket with two dollar judge, the role which-an-Am-bis-and-received_in_change a bassador has to play is not by half dozen ten-cent pieces, at least any means the hardest. When two of which were bad. He did not stop in the queue to examine even statesmen, in the prime of his change, as he might have done, life break down under the and in future probably will do, strain, as Mr. Anthony Eden because he did not want to block
passage of the theatre's SOME people are born with Midas Says Sir HENRY
Angers. They cannot help making did not long ago, it is clear that
If everyone examined, money, any more than I can help a jolly song or frittering the demands made by the comfang and otherwise tested his singing plicated and continuously run-change, it would take a long time away my time on such idle and un- productive things as painting a pic- ning machinery of international to fill a theatre. The same manture or catching a fish.
was travelling by taxi during the]
Like most people, I dream of sudden
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patrons.
Haymarket.
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Is "Modern Times" a triumph
There will be many different wherever filmgoers meet to dis- answers. Personally, I am filled with regret for the passing of a cuss their entertainment.
romantic chapter in film his- Added to this diversity of ap- tory, because "Modern Times" the last glimpse of an peal we have qualities of is production which are gradually Atlantis no film star can ever
find again. creating a film style.
FORTUNES THAT PASSED ME BY
I Might Have Made Millions
LYTTON
When we were quite young
relations upon the human organ-evening. He pald a forty-cent wealth. I conscientiously buy what wife and I were very friendly with
It would be interesting to calculate found his health at breaking-on this basis the number of coun: point; indeed, it was suggested terfeit coins in circulation in this
Colony. at the time that had he not been an over-tired man, the fiasco of
near,
my surprise, the wall was soft and yielding, and out of criosity I stopped to examine it.
I held the candle to it, and the faint light caught a patch which had been rubbed by my shoulder. Instead of the dirty drabners I expected to see, my I was almost dazzled with the beauty of a purple ao vivid that it seemed to ism are more, at times, than it fare with a dollar bill-for he had shares I can afford in those concerns certain Mr. Joseph Lyons, Ile was have just been painted by the hand that are shortly to experience a sud running one or two little tea shop of a master.. Up and down the pas Is able to bear. It may be re-thrown the bad ten-cent pieces den burst of fluence-acording to and he begged me to put £100 in his age 1 crept till I discovered that a called, also, that Sir Samuel Into the harbour-and he got four my "expert" friends! But that fortune company. His shares could have been vast piece of canvas, ten or twelve out of my grasp, but tantalisingly sonable price, and I would gladly have mon iron clothes pegs over a portion Hoare, when Foreign Secretary more worthless coins in his change. is a will-o'the-wisp-it is always just bought then for an exceptionally rea-feet long, had been nailed with com-
purchased, for I had faith in of the wall that had fallen. Lyons and felt certain he would suc-
I rubbed another portion with my I think it was a mistake to mention ceed.
bare hand, and as the dirt flaked "shares." It revives яб the word
for There was just one obstacle to away I saw the snowy beauty of a. many sad memories. There is, example, the case of these brewery making investment, and that was woman's breast, the delicate veins of shares which were to
in exactly $100! In those days it was which seemed to carry the blood of keep me
Aheer impossibility to spare a hundred life Itself. "It's a masterpiacal" I comfort for the rest of my days. the bought, and I held on. Up and up ponce from our family budget with whispered. "In the morning we must the Hoare-Laval pence plan est available transport,
think of what founders' would never have occurred. longer periods they spend at the went the shares. Ten, twenty, thirty out incurring the risk of starvation, make inquiries.
pounds there seemed no limit to the yet when I
Next morning I tackled the land- Still my shares in Lyens must be worth now- There is also the case of Mr. conference table or
in secret figure they would reach.
oh, why didn't we just starve for a lady. friends safd "Hold on!"
few months7 Ramsay MacDonald, an older conclave, the more fantalisingly
"That old picture!" she laughed. If had sold at the peak price I
Another good friend of ours was "Oh, it's been knocking about in the man, admittedly, who has had,
does success in achievement should have realised ah, it hardly by reasons of failing energy, to
bears thinking about. I should not Mr. Charles Watson, who had opened lumber-room for as long as I can retire somewhat into the back-seem to elude them. In the end, have been ashamed to stand up to the two or three shops and was having a remember. My father used to own I thought It thousand pounds. But I held on too had faith in his destiny, and advised so that picture must have been here ground. Mr. Baldwin, a more they are all too often condemned man who bragged he was worth ten hard fight to hold his own. He also this house, and his father before him,
non-long, and I still have the stares, and us to buy his shares, Ah, well, his fundreds of years. robust type, has also latterly by unsympathetic and
If someone came and offered me even little shops have grown into the might as well be put to some use been feeling the strain of work understanding public opinion, shillings apiece for them I should Maypole Dairy Company, but the when that wall fell in and couldn't fortune I did not make is still in its afford to have it repaired, so I stuck original embryonic state and is likely in the not far dis- which takes small account of the shake him by the hand, tant future to take a less active difficulties which they encounter Why Didn't Wo Starve?
Fortune's Hardost Slap part in the nation's politics. and the strain they are called
But that is typical of me. Either
Perhaps the most resounding slap Assuredly, they are not to be upon to bear. There is the I hold on to the wrong shares or I am!
So I want off to consult a builder, envied who have, in these days, further point that most of these told about the right ones and do not planted on my cheek by Lady. For who willingly gave me an estimate.
tune was in connection with an cident at Bath many years ago. My Ho'd make a good job of the wall, a hand in directing the foreign men get relatively small reward buy them.
Shortly after the mar my friends wife and I were very young, very and it would cost me fifty bob, Fifty affairs of great nations. If for their work; many could do to to buy shares in a certain poor, and very much in love shillings. He might as well have sald But sufficiently in love to convert into a 250. My wife and I hadn't ty their labours were rich in bene-infinitely better for themselves upstart tobacco contpany.
The palace the tumbledown dinginess of shillings in the world, so I thanked him for his courtesy and put the plc- fcent results proportionate to in private life. These are shook my head. I knew better.
upstart would be smashed by thea lodging-house.
ture out of my mind. the drain on their energies, thoughts which should be kept great combines and where, then, One night we returned to our room
would be my hard-earned pennies?
midnight, It was only two or three yearS abilities and time, there would in mind when we feel disposed rangely enough, the upstart sur after the chow. It was be less reason for lamenting the to gird against the apparent vived, and I saw the money I ought and everyone in the house was in bed later that I read in the morning
to have invested doubling and trebling and asleep long since. Tho only light papers of a lost master-picce Atlas-load they have to bear. helplessness of our statesmen. to avoll once again my, modest to take us to our quarters was a covered in a Bath lodging-house. It "Lot and his Wives." and was paint- Unhappily, however, the harder Our debt to them, whether we speculation would have made me a smoky, guttering candle, as we tip-was called, if my memory serves me,
I caught my toe on a loose boarded by Titian. It was sold they work, the more they rush acknowledge it or not, is. a big rich man. But, alas, I had bought toed along the pasinge.
something else something which d
and stumbled against the wall. To Christie's for £30,000. hither and thither by the quick-one.
not rise.
the picture over, the hole. Sell t7 It's not worth anything, but if you repair the wall for me you can have. It and welcome."
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