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...also declared: "In the eyes of the world, Charles Chaplin is a buffoon, but he is not really a buffoon. He has lived in the sickly, sentimental atmosphere of Hollywood, yet apparently cherishes the desire to do something really big. He wants to give the world a picture of The Savior. Yet the World says: 'No.' If a bishop wanted to do it, all right; but a comedian? No! Possibly Mr. Chaplin could see some quality in Jesus that the bishops cannot see. Mary Magdalen saw qualities in Jesus that Peter missed...
...cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals in the Big Numbers Territory, next day went inland to see the cannibal village. No longer friendly, Nagapate's men seized them and were getting ready to eat them when, in the manner long familiar to adventure fiction, a British man-of-war on regular tour...
...Author. Jim Tully, onetime transcontinental tramper (three times across), farm laborer, link heater, circus roustabout, chainmaker, prizefighter, newspaperman, tree surgeon, was born near St. Marys, Ohio, 1891, now lives in Hollywood, Calif. Other books: Emmett Lawler, Beggars of Life, Jarnegan, Life of Thomas H. Ince, Life of Charlie Chaplin, Circus Parade, Shanty Irish...
...westward again. Now that he is a success there will accompany him the kind of press stories the public most eagerly devours. Many will be interested to know now that he likes apples, oysters, caviar, expensive cigars; that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes his clothes, Chanel his perfume; that he is inevitably late save for engagements of one sort. When he is scheduled to appear in concert he is always meticulously prompt for he feels it a grave...
Engaged. Lita Grey Chaplin, musicomedy actress, onetime wife of Cineman Charles Spencer Chaplin; and Phil Baker, accordion-playing funnyman; at Milwaukee...