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Monsieur Verdoux. Charles Chaplin's sardonic comedy about a man who murders for profit (TIME...
Monsieur Verdoux. Charles Chaplin's sardonic comedy about a man who murders for profit (TIME, May 5) which reopened in Washington last week...
...Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth and General MacArthur all died at once, Americans would not feel the loss as poignantly as millions of Spaniards and their cousins felt the death of Manuel Rodriguez-Manolete, the bullfighter. Hard as Americans might find it to understand, the story of his short life will be long and reverently remembered in the Spanish-speaking world...
Last week Stern sent the stockholders a new offer. Confident that they would accept, he prepared to fly west again. With him he had a pair of right-hand men: George Nelson, advertising director of the late Philadelphia Record, and George Chaplin, managing editor of the Camden Courier and Post until Stern Sr. sold them last winter. In his pocket, Tommy Stern had a ringing, first-day editorial. Then, a few hours before plane time, he got the bad news in a terse wire: the Star had already been sold...
Happy Ending. Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, the feuding owners of United Artists, got together in a movie cutting room and made peace. U.A.'s income-largely because of their feuding-had reportedly slumped to $192,000 last year. They compromised on a new president, Gradwell L. Sears, who has been U.A.'s vice president since 1941. David 0. Selznick, who had been in at the start of the feud (TIME, Dec. 23), had sold out his U.A. share...