Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daughter of a great U.S. playwright, wife of a great U.S. movie comedian, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 35, told Interviewer Frederick Sands about the 17 years that she has spent with Charlie, 71, as his fourth wife and mother of his seven chil dren. In the American Weekly, Oona, still lean, open-faced, and now becoming grey-streaked, a partner in Chaplin's Swiss exile since 1952, makes it clear that Charlie has never seemed like a father...
...Oona's favorite occupation: "I am delighted every time I have another baby. The more the merrier is our family slogan. Charlie is just crazy about the kids. And he tells everyone that I look my prettiest when I am expecting a child." Oona discloses that the aging Chaplin is just as eccentric as ever: "Such a contradiction. I always have to carry a large supply of loose change when we go out-to do the tipping. And then he'll go off and buy me an expensive car!" Sometimes the little tramp of the old silent films...
...screen of one of Nigeria's 45 open-air cinemas. A commercial for Barclays Bank of England, written in the local "High Life" beat, the short cartoon has become so popular among West Africans that it vies for equal billing with ancient Tom Mix westerns and Charlie Chaplin slapsticks. It also pleases Barclays: savings accounts have almost quadrupled since it started showing the film. Says Barclays' Advertising Manager Kenneth J. Lashmar...
Pantomime is both basic and superb at the Second City: Charlie Chaplin is figuratively assassinated in a bit called "City Blights," and Sweden's Cinema Director Ingmar Bergman is taken apart in a parody called "Seven Sealed Strawberries." Another regular feature, "Great Books," pours cholesterol into the heart of literature. In one session, as an adult evening class discusses Oedipus Rex, a woman declares brightly: "I think he knew it all the time...
...thought fitting was "The Cathedral of Motion Pictures." As the cathedral's doors opened, 125 special policemen held back the mobs that strained for a look at their flicker favorites. Among the 6,000 first-nighters were New York's Mayor Jimmy Walker, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson, star of the cathedral's first attraction, The Love of Sunya. As the audience settled back in the plush mohair seats, an actor in a monk's robe appeared on stage, spread his arms and said: "Let there be light." With his words, the audience rose...