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...Charlie Chaplin, plagued by Joan Berry's latest claim (that her eight-month-old Carol Ann is "destitute"), inquired what had happened to the $10,700 he had thus far contributed to the infant's support. He also let it be known that he and his 19-year-old expectant Wife Oona (O'Neill) are summering at ex-wife Paulette Goddard's farm at Mount...
...movie industry is a man named Michael Kalatozov. Kalatozov arrived some ten months ago and was welcomed by a suitably distinguished gathering of Hollywood liberals. The occasion was celebrated by a "drinking" thrown at Hollywood's swankiest nightclub, Mocambo. The evening was presided over by Charlie Chaplin, then newly married to Playwright Eugene O'Neill's dark-haired daughter Oona...
...Chicago, 100 Men and a Girl, Great Waltz, Lady Hamilton, Mission to Moscow. (TIME'S Moscow correspondent reported that, at its first showing, Moscow audiences found parts of Mission to Moscow slightly comical.) Kalatozov also said that Russia's favorite U.S. cinemactors are: Bette Davis, Charlie Chaplin, Spencer Tracy, Deanna Durbin, Mickey Mouse...
...Charlie Chaplin's legal woes weathered two court actions. They cleared up in Los Angeles, where Joan Berry's charges that she had been deprived of her civil rights were dismissed. They clouded up in San Francisco, where the court refused to dismiss Joan's paternity suit...
Partially to compensate for the lack of a parade, Soviet officialdom declared a Charlie Chaplin festival, ordered a Shakespeare revival. Last year admiring Russians sent Chaplin a bear cub in the care of Tanker Skipper Mihail Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name...