Modern Times 1935 1936 1937 next previous
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Karen Hollis, Modern Screen, New York, March 1936.
Walt Disney, „Mickey‘s Polo Team,“ 1936 (with
player Charlie Chaplin)
„In one of his rare bursts of confidence“
Editorial content. „CHARLIE CHAPLIN,
THE SERIOUS FUNNY MAN
In reality, this lovable screen tramp is a charming
scamp, or a solemn chap at will
By Karen Hollis
At last, there is another Charlie Chaplin picture to be chuckled
over, and thousands of youngsters who have grown up
to movie-going age since four and one-half years ago, when his
last picture was shown, are having the fun of discovering
him for the first time.“ (...)
„Charlie Chaplin himself is all things to all people. Stop any
five of his most intimate friends (and you never saw a man
who has so many intimate friends from here to Japan) and they
will all tell you a different story.“ (...)
„I like best to remember him at big parties. I have seen
him stand behind a phonograph imitating an orchestra
conductor. His anxiety, then relief, over a brief solo from the first
violin, his dismay over a sour note, his frantic efforts
to get more volume from his orchestra, make you see every
one of the stodgy or temperamental, sleepy, or nervous,
or arrogant players in his imaginary orchestra.“ (...)
„Don‘t get the idea that Chaplin is always the inspired clown.
Quite the contrary. Back in June, 1929, he and Lindbergh
were fellow guests at a small luncheon party on a yacht anchored
in the Hudson. Lindbergh had recently returned from his
solo flight across the Atlantic, and Manhattan was one shoving,
screaming, persistent lot of maniacal hero worshippers
who all wanted to get close to him and talk to him. At luncheon
Lindbergh experienced the first moments of quiet in a
hectic day. He seemed happy and hurried away to pressing
engagements with obvious regret. As the dinghy bearing
him toward shore splashed its way through the water, the
disconsolate little figure of Chaplin practically hung
over the rail waving ,Good-bye.‘
There he stayed, watching Lindbergh land, get in a car,
and drive away. Eventually, Chaplin straightened up and turned
a curiously wistful face toward the others on deck.
,I wish I‘d had nerve to ask him for an autograph,‘
he said earnestly.“ (...)
„Maybe you think he should rise above brooding
because he stands alone as an idol of the world, with only
Mickey Mouse as a possible rival.
But Chaplin in one of his rare bursts of confidence
to a newspaper man recently said, ,I got most of the things
I wanted, but I found out after I got them that I should
never have wanted them.‘“
Drawing of shoes, hat and stick.
Redaktioneller Inhalt
Modern Times 1935 1936 1937 next previous
