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Show Charlie Chaplin What Have You Done? In Hollywood Uvea a man California llllle knnwa. Artlata and wrltera knnw him In Europe better than America. The small town accepta him aa a clown only. Il a se about It. What haa Charlie Chaplin don artistically? Stark Young, writing In Ibe New Republic, saa. addressing ad-dressing Chaplin: "You have created one of the- great clowns of all times. Thta Charlie of your needa no portrait anywhere; he la foolish, pathetic. Irrepressible, flickering, romiial. loveabl beyond all worda. h la light a air; he la a blunderer with a heart not eolled. but worn Ilk a flower on a rhlld'e aleeve; a aexleaa gallantry; h la a lireleaa curiosity drawn to things aa a monkey to a peephole or a moth to a flame; a gentl blithe dreamer and acrobat; a mask; h I a little, grotesque gro-tesque music; a dear laughter carried hghlly in everybody' breaal; a gay. ahy claaaic. a world figment." |