No doubt the Far East will have noted that tomorrow is Chaplin's 50th birthday. For apart from the world wine popularity of his films, I believe he paid a visit to China some years ago. Here, of course, the birthday is treated by the newspapers as a national event. And why not? To have made more people laugh than any man alive is as great an achievement as any statesman can boast. And it is pleasing to think that if Hollywood provides the machinery through which he gained renown, Charlie Chaplin is pure English and Cockney at that, beginning life in extreme poverty in Kennington.
As young as only ten he turned professional and toured England with the Eight Lancashire Lads, went to America when just 20 and was famous by 26. When he came to Li don in 1931 for the first showing here of "City Lig the once-ragged little Kennington sparrow hobnobbed with Bernard Shaw, danced with Lady Oxford and dined with the Prime Minister.
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According to the "Daily Herald," ly Charlie, as a poor little Jew, wearing, of course, nis usual clothes, will be discovered in a concentration camp,
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