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...bewildered drunk in innumerable pictures before his ability got him, in Make Me a Star, his first starring part. There are times when Erwin reads the pathos between his lines a little too vociferously but there are other times when his confident naiveté suggests a Chaplin who can talk. He makes Merton's grand gesture of presenting the extra girl with a wrist watch hilarious by the way he says: "It's a little token of my esteem and . . . it's guaranteed." Director William Beaudine had fine dialog to work with...
Lita Grey Chaplin, divorced wife of Film Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin signed contracts with Fox Film Corp. for her sons Charles Spencer Jr., 7, and Sidney Earl ("Tommy"), 6, to appear with her in five pictures. Reputed fee for the first picture...
Home in Hollywood from travels around the world Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin unfolded a plan to relieve the Depression: "The Allied Committee on War Reparations has agreed it will receive from Germany about $35,000,000,000 in War reparations. But Germany says she cannot pay. Very well, then let the Allies make capital of this part of the agreement, and issue the amount that Germany owes them in international currency and pay themselves, each nation to be given her previously agreed share. This would be fiduciary currency guaranteed by the Allies to have the same par value as gold...
...small part in an Austrian cinema got her a job with an English producing company. She was chosen for the lead in The Water Gypsies because Director Basil Dean thought she had the face of a fairy and the sophistication of a siren. When Charlie Chaplin was in England last spring, there were rumors that he and Cinemactress Maritza were engaged, that she would play the lead in his next picture. Instead, she accepted a Paramount contract, boarded the boat two days after an appendectomy. Her first Paramount picture, Forgotten Commandments, released last week, is partly an inconsequential morality play...
...keeps his characters, action and dialog as natural and human as possible. But the settings, the story, the mood of the direction, are stylized to achieve a dream quality. Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago. Admiration for Charlie Chaplin is shown in mob scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced The Italian...