Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-05 | Page 9 | Chaplin Man Friday Tells of New Film

S haplin 1 Man iday Tells Of f New Film By MA NATtY KNIGHT OLLY UP Charlie plin is cruising the Far Far- East Goddard and so since S ranted anted to know something about famous lamous comedian I went to see sec Reeves f anyone has an intimate k know knowl- owIe fe e a of Chaplin its it's Al Alf who has sn n man Friday to the Ule actor since y both came out of England al- al at t two dc decades ades ago S Still No Sound saw saw AI Alf at the Chaplin studios Ich occupy five fhe acres near the ter iter of the screen colon colony The TheIs is equipped for everything everything- opt sound Mr Chaplin hasn't hant talked in pic- pic ea 5 sand and doest intend to Alf AU told somewhat unnecessarily and n It went on to other things He Hed d ho he thought one of the secrets secret's Chaplins Chaplin's success was the fact at t he did all aU his own stunts He never has a stand stand-in nor a able auble auble uble ble like other artists Reeves Reo Id d. He goes does oes all his hla own falling failing wn and backing out of ot doors and else Whatever medicine prescribes for himself he takes benefit of ot substitute haplin's Chaplins widely heralded and ex- ex sIve delays during the making makingS S pictures interested me and I Iced Heed ced W ed Reeves about them Mr Ir r. r Chaplin has worked vor ed hard all aU is I life Reeves Ree said It L Mr ne lie wants appear lavish at times its it's his it ITU It business He comes to work when he feels ce Ite e it and if tt he decides not to work worker ter Iter er he hires everybody for a set seta setta 1 ta a certain time then he pays em for the work they haven't done doneld id ld d tells them to come back the day or the next month if it heLi he heels eh els Li like it Ho Ie likes to hire the old troupers ten Iten he ho can use them and he alys altys al- al ys tys gives them preference His philanthropies are large it t he never employs people from frome e Ie picture to the next f J Few in Between During intervals between bet pro- pro there arc are not more than 20 on the premises so the is practically nothing en If It Mr Chaplin cabled me he uld mid be here day after tomorrow d wanted to start a picture he uld have or or 1000 work- work m clear at off the lot overnight and andev few ev minutes on the telephone uld bring out all his lava favorite rite ayers and more people than he hed uld d use for any picture he could Reeves told me that ideas come Chaplin in flashes while he sanders anders around sets In City Lights more than half halfe e picture was in tho the can had haden hadn en n shot Reeves said Then it me me time to tb the statue s in ina ino a o 6 city square LIt lf suddenly came Mr Mn Chaplin that that was the real ginning for for the picture As though the junking of half halt a ture turc meant nothing at all at-all t. t all to him climbed up deposited himself in ini 3 i arms of the statue and said right now well we'll forget every- every lag ing else weve we've shot Well We'll scrap all it Well We'll start right from here Script Only Outline C h works only when he is the mood regardless of the cost cot him Only the barest outline of 5 script is used in his pictures He cant can't like to fake falte shots and will II tto to all aU sorts of ot trouble to keep keepe e action authentic In tn it Modern Times when he eked out of th the tho door of at the Pame Pat Para ae e shack to seek fame and forne forne for for- ore or- or ne e he was wa on his studio lot When landed in the shallow pond bend bend be be- be nd the door he was in Wilmington the waterfront 25 miles from rom Chaplin could have ked the tho water scene but he pre pre- red to make it real