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Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin refused to participate in a command benefit vaudeville performance before H. M. King George V, sent the vaudeville manager a check for $1,000 instead. Shocked at this apparent affront to Royalty, the London Daily Express sent a reporter down to interview Mr. Chaplin at Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether...
...greatest stage artists of the past would seem funny to us now if we could see them as they really were. If I passed away tomorrow, I'd hate to think posterity was going to laugh at me. I advise all modern film people, except possibly Charles Chaplin, to get rid of their pictures too. They will be absolutely ridiculous in 20 years...
CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his lability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants, etc. etc. TABU-Fred Murnau's ideas about photographic story telling make this the best of the South Sea Island pictures-about a pearl diver and his girl. THE FRONT PAGE-Continuous crisis in a criminal courts press room, brilliantly written and acted...
...ever be really important in the sound picture, but in combination with visual forms it still has far to go. What the movies need now, which the filming of "Oedipus Rex" should illustrate, is the development of an art and technique peculiarly suited to the medium of the screen. Chaplin has worked out one type of movie style, the silhouette is another, but in most cases movies are but literal translations of an art which is at its best in the theater...
Clad in pink coat, white breeks and shining boots, Cinemacter Charles Chaplin rode out with the Duke of Westminster at Envermeu, France to hunt wild boar. Presently a boar broke cover, but there was no chase. The boar charged the comedian. When they were 100 ft. apart, someone else in the party brought the beast down with a rifle-bullet. That night Mr. Chaplin ate boar, declaring he liked it better on the platter than on the hoof. Next day, after several sessions with a masseur to ease limbs strained by his perilous riding, he cancelled a trip...