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rep Bek' Pee B1/ a very serious Chanlio Caplin who writes the foreword to Mr. L'Estrange Faweet's fascinating and well-informed book, "Films, Facts and Forecasts, "The people who have devoted their lives to development of the cinema," writes Mr, Chaplin. "could hot possibly have been held to the virtual slavery of their self-imposed {asks by the love of "gold alone. Tong ago they had amassed sufl-Gent wealth to austaln. them mutton and ale the rest of their lives. There must have been, must be, a fascination that radiates from the magic of ealluloid."
"There can be, now," Mr, Chaplin considers, "no complete diagnosis of the cinema's growin effective prescription gua Snake the motion picture ana eugenie infant."
So profound is the great. comedian's introduction that one fs mildly disconcerted to find him signing his Christian name as "Charlie" and not "Charles"
Mr. Faweett has studied his subject' in "Ametion (where he, was Photographed with Chaplin daring the making of a scene for "The Circus"), and in Germany, and he deals with it nan animated, frank, fand frequently challenging way, natural aptitude for evolving and selling an article! to suit many tastes, and it is their treatment and handing which enables the American film to circulate all over the world to the exclusion of the films of any other nation."
Seareely any Jews belong to the British Film Trade Veterans' Association, composed of the men in the business before 1903, do not aay," Mr. Faweett writ-|) es, "it is good or bad that men with one type of mentality should eontrol the business, but I do say that} has never yet been able that it is a curious commentary that the Jew was not in the business at the beginning of things."
Since then the British Jews have! found it easier to. make money by buying or renting American pie-tures, The war, which checked British
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Charlie thinks the stage has gone to pieces. used admire Tree." he remarked, whatever they said against' him. I always got_something out of his acting, Twenty: years ago there were theatre. dogs."
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