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Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., 16, admitted his father was training him in the tricks of the trade. "But I may be a concert pianist," he added...
...playing the dispossessed soul in the market for a body he can call his own, once more displays amazing versatility. Uproariously funny scenes are provided by the minor characters, especially blundering, vulture-visaged Edward Everett' Horton and James Gleason, who does one of the funniest pantomime jobs since Charlie Chaplin hung up the baggy pants and Hitler mustache. Claude Rains, as Mr. Jordan (the Angel Gabriel in a streamline edition) gives one of the subtlest characterizations of recent screen history...
David O. Selznick paid $1,200,000 for a United Artists partnership with Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Alexander Korda, promised to make $20,000,000 worth of pictures, got a kiss from Mary. Ruth Etting's husband, Myrl Alderman, dropped his $225,000 damage suit against her ex-husband, Martin Snyder, who shot him four years ago. Billy Rose sued the Canadian National Exhibition for $500,000 for calling its summer water show an "Aquacade." Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was sued for $50,000 by a woman who said she spent more than a year typing and researching...
Died. John Westcott ("Fred Karno"), 75, veteran English music-hall comic and producer; in Parkstone, England. In 1906 he hired an unknown named Charles Chaplin, made him into a music-hall star, took him to the U.S. in 1913, lost him to Mack Sennett...
...Robots" in a Los Angeles store window. Standing beside a male dummy, he defied spectators to make him laugh or to tell which figure was human. Some four months ago a Japanese named Toraichi Kono ran into Al Blake. Well-known in Hollywood. Kono was once Charlie Chaplin's valet and private secretary, now has a small business...