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After celebrating his 73rd birthday at a salmon-fishing retreat in Ireland, Charlie Chaplin went home last week to the quiet north shore of Lake Geneva, where-both inwardly and outwardly-he has mellowed and found peace of mind. The great comedian stoops a bit. His hair is flashing white...
...same old Charlie Chaplin; ten years in Switzerland have changed him a great deal. His outrageous temper is all but gone. His tirades against the U.S. are now infrequent. The headlines he once made for everything from the Great Paternity Suit to Tax Problems to accepting a Kremlin-sponsored "peace prize" (thumb at his nose, fingers pointing west) have vanished, not to be replaced by others. Oxford is about to give him an honorary degree; so is the University of Durham...
Separate Planes. With his wife Oona and his huge family, Chaplin lives in the village of Vevey in a 15-room villa called Manoir de Ban, staffed by 13 servants, including two nannies. From its 69 acres of grass and gardens, the Chaplins have a panoptic view of Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc range. They seldom go out to mingle with the Swiss, whom Charlie calls "those natives." (Englishman that he is, he has never learned the local French.) But visitors of all sorts make pilgrimages to Manoir de Ban-from old Hollywood cronies to such distinguished guests...
...mother's upswept eyes and her father's grace. A student at London's Royal Ballet School, she got only reluctant permission from Charlie to go there-since he knows all too well the dangers that threaten pretty young girls in show business. Michael, 16, whom Chaplin regards as his artistic heir, goes to Geneva's International School; he speaks very little, and has the brooding look of Eugene O'Neill. Little Eugene Chaplin, 8, is known as Tadpole and is always talking, always in trouble. Charlie is a strict disciplinarian, and all seven children...
...years ago Noelle married Sydney Chaplin, who is conveniently starring in Subways Are for Sleeping just down Broadway. With that bit of luck, she is content with her role, including its high undress. "The role is in the personality," she says. "The costume suits my part...