Word: chaplinitis
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...knew kings (Edward VII), premiers (Clemenceau). dictators (Mussolini), marshals (Foch) and famed writers (d'An-nunzio). Charlie Chaplin's gambit at the Paris première of The Kid was not unlike that of many others: "I loved you in New York. You were France, Versailles. You conquered America...
Chou En-lai of Peking moved through Europe with the relaxed grace of a conqueror. He savored pâté de foie gras and raspberries with Mendès-France; he sipped wine with three Chinese actresses and an Occidental jester, Charlie Chaplin...
...huzzah for party-lining Singer Paul (Ol' Man River) Robeson, 56, and to protest the State Department travel ban that just keeps him rolling along in the U.S. only. Among the loudly cheered highlights of the rally was a cabled tribute to Robeson from aging (65) Comedian Charlie Chaplin, now in self-exile in Switzerland. A day later, for his "extraordinary service" in behalf of the Kremlin, Chaplin, along with Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, was awarded a peace prize (value: about $14,000) by the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council. Charlie, who planned to carve up the swag among...
...past (e.g., she once claimed that she had been divorced from a Pope of Rome), now made big talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before and after." At week's end Pola, looking pert and still glamorous, was photographed after she landed in New York for a two-week visit with anonymous old friends...
Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 28, daughter of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill, fourth wife of Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 65, and mother of five of his nine children, dropped in at the U.S. embassy in London and renounced her U.S. citizen ship. Thus, like her London-born husband who from his classic film roles piled up an estimated $20 million during 42 years as an alien resident of the U.S., Oona became a British subject. Chaplin, who faces a Justice Department grilling on leftish and immorality charges if he ever tries to re-enter the U.S., was "proud...