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...Charles Chaplin had another protégée. Dark, blue-eyed Alice Ealand, ex-model, said he had offered to star her in his next picture. Six months after his marriage to 18-year-old Oona O'Neill (his fourth), six weeks before the blood test which can clear him of ex-Protégée Joan Barry's paternity charge, Chaplin announced his next picture's subject. He will do the story of Bluebeard, with an "amusing angle." Miss Ealand, newcomer to Hollywood, said she would appear as the wife whom Bluebeard-Chaplin does...
Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., spit & image of the romantic comedian,* took his Army physical in Los Angeles, awaited induction. He and his brother Sydney used to be energetic little globetrotters. Rarely publicized in recent years Charlie Jr. has been studying at prep and military schools, is now 18. Sid, 18 next March, hopes to get into the Army Air Forces...
...move that surprised many he replaced him with Edward Reilly Stettinius, 42, ex-vice president of General Motors, ex-chairman of U.S. Steel and now ex-Lend-Lease Administrator. Cordell Hull himself, said Washington wise men, had asked for the steelman who looks like a tall Charlie Chaplin...
With gags alone, no matter how expertly fired, no comic can hit even a gag-loving nation between the eyes. Gags are too brassy, fleeting, unvisual. The true clown or jester tops the gag man by being both a richly eccentric character and a vividly expressive type-Chaplin is The Little Man, Durante The Wild Man, Ed Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant...
...theatrical career flopped, he launched himself as an independent artist by cleverly copycatting famed portraits in which he substituted the face of his current sitter. Decker's first work of this kind was an "old master" portrait of divinely crosseyed Comedian Ben Turpin. Then he painted Charlie Chaplin in the style of twelve old & new masters including Frans Hals, Picasso, Howard Chandler Christy. Chaplin bought all twelve...