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...Charlie Chaplin is hard at work on the script and music of a new movie that he plans to begin shooting within a year. Title: The Good King. Plot: a monarch is forced to abdicate and live like an average man. Having abdicated his monarchical position in Hollywood two years ago, Chaplin is now living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland with wife Oona and their five children. His is the simple life of an average man-in a $200,000 villa (13 rooms) on the shores of Lake Geneva...
...invention, is hidden in the depths of an astonishing psychological contraption. For though he seems doomed to make millions, Disney is not a businessman; and though occasionally he is capable of fine folk art, he is not an "artist." Furthermore, though he has probably tickled more risibilities than Charlie Chaplin, he does not really have much sense of humor. Walt Disney is a genuine hand-hewn American original with the social adze-marks sticking out all over; he is a garage-type inventor with a wild guess in his eye and a hard pinch on his penny, a grassroots genius...
...Grock was acclaimed as the greatest of them all. The Queen of Spain once gave premature birth to a royal heir from laughing too hard at his antics. Winston Churchill once urged him to take out British citizenship so that Britons might claim him as their own. Even Charlie Chaplin was once kind enough to concede that Grock was almost as good...
Comedian Charlie Chaplin, looking much better fed than the lean tramp he used to be on the screen, emerged from his self-exile in the Swiss Alps, showed up in Paris waving a check for 2,000,000 francs ($5,700), part of the $14,000 prize which Multimillionaire Chaplin got last spring from the Red-sponsored World Peace Congress for his faithful party lining. He handed the check to France's famed priest Abbe Pierre (TIME, Feb. 15), a saintly man who has been virtually penniless ever since he gave away his sizable patrimony to charity 23 years...
...hosts. The latest edition of the Reds' Modern Encyclopedia hit the stands. Its strongest venom was saved for recent Peking Guest Aneurin Bevan, farthest left of Britain's top socialists. Nye did not make the grade as a "Foreign Personage" (two who did: party-lining Comedian Charlie Chaplin and Canterbury's Red Dean Hewlett Johnson), but instead was ignominiously lumped with such "Foreign Reactionaries" as his old enemy in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill. The Encyclopedia then hauled off and let Nye have it: "Mr. Bevan wears the outward cloak of Socialism to hide...