How He Presents the Unexpected:
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"To make the public think I'm going to do what they expect, and Charlie Chaplin is taken very|then to do just the opposite is a seriously in Paris. Some critics pure pleasure to me." have discovered in his "mask" a He particularly guards against family resemblance to the finest exaggeration. heads of tne Japanese stylists could kill laughter more easiothers prefer to be reminded of the ly by exaggeration than in any "magnificently learned" expressions other way. If I over did my pecu-of YVelasquez's portraits, the bold, liar walk, if I wore too brutal in bare faces of Albert Ditrer, or knocking someone over, if I chane-something of the precise outline of yed on any excess, it would spoil the Flemish primitives. ithe film."
At least, that is what we are told This interesting little by Louis Dellue in his Charlie which has been translated Chaplin" (John Lane. Price 2s.
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