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Reginald Taviner, Photoplay, New York, May 1933.

Grace Kingsley

(...) Photo, Exhibitors herald, Nov. 12, 1925, detail

& Charlie Chaplin seems to be just too busy

to work, these days! The world‘s greatest comedian is buying

fishing tackle and spending his days with some

of his cronies, including King Vidor and Dr. Cecil Reynolds,

fishing and cruising around the waters between

Catalina and San Pedro, or occasionally venturing as far south

as San Diego and as far west as San Clemente

on his yacht. He may also take a run up to Santa Cruz

Islands.

      However, Chaplin tells himself sternly that he is working,

and he actually is busy part of the time on his next

story as he sails the sea or rests at anchor, according to Alfred

Reeves, his manager.

      „Mr. Chaplin expects to start shooting in six weeks,“

said Mr. Reeves, „but I don‘t know,“ he added

ruefully, „if he gets fooling around with that fishing, whether

he will be ready to go to work in that time or not.“

      Charlie, it seems, is quite a lucky fisherman and when

his luck is running he gives undivided attention

to the sport. He has lately been going after bigger and better

fish, says Reeves. At one time he told me that

the sport was merely a sort of accompaniment to dreaming

and reflection, but evidently he is taking it up in a big

way, these days.

      The comedian has been recently separated from his

boys, Charlie and Sidney, the two having gone

east to join their mother in New York, at her request,

about a week ago.

      We had a look around the press room at the Chaplin

studios yesterday and peeked at the monster

press-clipping books. These notices, we learn, furnished

by press-clipping bureaus, cost from $400 to $700

dollars a month to gather them, that is.

(...) Hobnobbing in Hollywood With GRACE KINGSLEY,

Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1933

„The tear of his heart“

Editorial content. „A Millionaire In Search of Happiness

      Rich in fame, money, friends, the greatest comedian of all

      time asks – in vain – for but one small gift

      By Reginald Taviner

      In Hollywood you may see ex-cigarette girls who have

become cinema princesses, and former taxi drivers

who are worshipped as demi-gods.“ (...)

      „Yet, among all the multitudes of celebrities. among

the world-famous throngs of soothsayers, stars, sycophants and

supervisors, he, the most celebrated, the most famous

great among all the near-great and the would-be great, roams

as a lost soul.

      He is lonely, because no other soul can share with him

his pedestal of genius.

      He is sad, because the laughs he has given the world

have been born in his own sorrows.

      He is a jester in the court of life, a Pagliacci whose clownish

make-up ever hides the tear of his heart.“ (...) 

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