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Show Wound Suffered in Great War ' Helped Out Star Tfa an 111 wind " Moat peopl will admit that the rrat war waa a terrlbl event, yet It waa a plec of ahrapnel which, Indirectly, In-directly, maa renonlbl for the aueeeaa of Maurice f'hevnller aa an International favorite in talking motion picture. Th ahrapnel. lodging in hl right tunr, almoat killed him, and even after h recorered from the danger of Immediate death, the doctor, told Mm that ha might never be able to in ajrain. But th earn ple.- of ahrapnel rauaed him td be taken prlaoner by" th German., and it waa during hla twenty-nix mnnthe aa a prlaoner in a German ramp that h learned th Kngliah lanaoag from a fellow prl.oner. thereby paving th a ay to hla preaent aueeeaa aa a bilingual alar of both the atag and the arreen. In .pit of the aloomy prediction, of the doctor. Chevalier recovered completely from the efferta of hla wound. After the war he aang hla wav to mu.ie hall etardom In Eu. Top and then Into International fame by way of the audible acreen. Following th algnal aueeeaa of ila flrat two fllma. "Innocenta of Parle" and "The Ixve Parade." Chevalier eore again tremendoua. If In "The Big Pond." - It la a atory of an ambltloua young Frenchman who la pitchforked Into hualneaa In the Statea. He beglna "at the bottom" bot-tom" In a chewing gum factory and. through perseverance and Initiative, eventually becomea the "big hot" In th work. Th production haa a number of eonaa and a pretty romance. Clan-dett Clan-dett Co'hert olaya th leading fem-tnln fem-tnln role. Pha I. remembered for her rreat wort In "The Ld- Llet." Th- P Pond" waa filmed In kth Kngllfh and French dialogue verelona. with- Chevalier and Mia Colbert playing In both veralona. But If Chevalier had not been wounded and confined to a prlaon camp with a former Kngllah teacher teach-er h might not be th great hero that he la today with, film fan everywhere. - |