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There are also on the bill some Charlie Chaplin movies. In these, the happenings on the screen are wonderfully funny and the music is demonic. This week's program at the Brattle is about the finest in several months...
...London, aging (64) Comedian Charlie Chaplin, now living in Swiss exile (where, he claims, U.S. persecution drove him because of his leftist beliefs), announced plans for a new movie, "the funniest ever.'' Title: The King in New York. Synopsis: A Ruritanian monarch (Chaplin), booted off his throne because he tried to divert his country's atomic research to purely peaceful ends, flees to New York, falls in love with a Madison Avenue huckstress, is persecuted as a Communist, returns to Europe and lives happily ever after...
...past five years the revolution toward independent production has been spearheaded by United Artists, one of Hollywood's oldest motion picture distributing companies. United Artists was formed in 1919 to distribute the independent films of its four owners: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith. In early 1951 the company was losing $100,000 a week. It was so desperate that it offered a group headed by Lawyers Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin half the company's stock, valued at $5,400,000 and full control for ten years at the nominal cost...
When the Krim-Benjamin group took over U.A. in 1951, the other half of the stock was owned in equal parts by Chaplin and Mary Pickford. Last year Chaplin sold his share to Krim-Benjamin for an undisclosed sum (TIME, March 14, 1955). Last week Mary Pickford sold her share too, and the Krim-Benjamin group became 100% owners of the company that has done more than any other single force to change the industrial pattern of Hollywood...
Along with its locally produced short, Ivy Films will present Ernest Hemingway's "Spanish Earth" and Charlie Chaplin's "Satire of Carmen...