Word: chaplinitis
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...West Coast correspondent for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express was one of the busiest men in Los Angeles last week. Covering the Mann Act trial of Charles Spencer Chaplin for both British and Australian newspapers, he had to file two separate stories every day. For Britons, to whom British Subject Chaplin is still the lovable, great little cockney comedian, he was carefully sympathetic. But for Australians he could be tougher and more realistic...
Australians have begun to acquire the U.S. view of a Chaplin minus mustache and baggy pants, the off-screen Chaplin who is a dapper, grey multimillionaire of 54, widely envied in Hollywood for his unassailable arrogance and for his affairs with a succession of pretty young "proteg...
Auburn-haired Joan Berry, 24, who wandered from her native Detroit to New York to Hollywood in pursuit of a theatrical career, became a Chaplin protegee in the summer of 1941. She fitted into a familiar pattern. Chaplin signed her to a $75-a-week contract, began training her for a part in a projected picture. Two weeks after the contract was signed she became his mistress. Throughout the summer and autumn, Miss Berry testified last week, she visited the ardent actor five or six times a week. By midwinter her visits were down to "maybe three times a week...
...slapdash London revue called Strike a New Note recently passed its sooth performance thanks to a comic that few Londoners had ever seen a year ago. Today, at 40, raven-haired, bulbous-nosed Sid Field is saluted as perhaps England's finest pantomimist since Charlie Chaplin sailed for the U.S. Fame came late to Field because for twelve years an irksome contract tethered him to the provinces, locked him out of London. It took a lawsuit...
Field's art resembles Chaplin's-who is Field's idol. It outlaws smut and disdains fast gags, relying on reality lightened by absurdity, on comedy deepened by pathos. But, unlike Chaplin, Field enhances his pantomime with a full set of voices and intonations and the widest mastery of English accents on the English stage. Field has gusto as well. "At last," wrote the Sunday Times's magisterial James Agate, "the stage has an actor who knows how to exuberate...