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Show Mildred Harris Chaplin JmNL-Burlesque-Star By HARRY FERGl'SON NEW YORK, Deo. 16 (UP) Maybe you saw her in the silent movies "Camille," for intanc but today she is on the burlesque wheel, tryinf to set a foothold on the road up to the bis money asain. New York to start taking voice lessons. les-sons. What about Chaplin and all ths discussion over whether he Goddard?1"" mrr'"i "I just wish him a lot of luck." Miss Harris said. "I want him to be happy in everything he does." The strip teasers and the chorus girls were making a clatter in the corridor as they hurried out to eat between shows. Miss Harris didn't seem to hear them. She was talking talk-ing about the radio and television and wondering, in her own mind, whether pejple come bark to fame and fortune when they start studying study-ing singing in their midthirties. "I guess we all want to be a success suc-cess at something," shs said, and laughed and changed the subject to her 11-year-old son, who is in junior high school in California. "He's crazy about airplanes." she said, "and I don't think he'll ever go on the stage. That's funny, isn't it? I'd like to see him Christmas day, but I'll be in Boston, of course." l" No one said anything sbbut the man who is the hit of the show at the Star theater. He's a comedian who gives an impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. i Just after a strip teaser finished htr act at the Star theater on a Brooklyn side street there was a . roll of drums and then somebody lady of stage and screen" and out from behind the curtains stepped Mildred Harris Chaplin, one time t wife of Charlie Chaplin. And once a big name in Holly-Wood, Holly-Wood, too. where she began her career at the age of 9 and was famous fa-mous when William S. Hart shot A his way through countless reels of film and the Robert Taylor of the day was a man named Wallace Reid. Impersonates (tar bo She sang a song called "Where Are You?" and then she said she would give an impersonation of Crete Garbo, a girl who was working work-ing in a Stockholm beauty parlor when Mildred Harris Chsplin was queen of Hollywood. The burlesque patrons cheered the Garbo act and five minutes later Mildred Harris Chaplin was in her cubby hole dressing room telling about her great plans and ter how old one was on the radio, because no one could see. That's what she wants to sing on the rsdio. ' Will Study Singing Tm going to take some singing . lessons in about six weeks." she said, clearing movie magasines off the other chair in the room. "I hope to spend six months on them , and then I will be ready for the radio or light opera. It's funny, but I'm just getting over being afraid of a microphone or a loud speaker like the one I just sang over out there. I used to be nervous ner-vous about it." Had there been many disappointments disappoint-ments since 1920. when she was divorced from Chaplin? "Yes. and the biggest one I'll re- ' member for a long time. They handed me a five-year contract and told me I was going to be in a picture pic-ture called "The Sheik" with Ku-, Ku-, dolph Valentino. Right after that ".. I went to the hospital and had a serious operation." Wishes Him Lurk She shrugged and talked about ether things. About how she is going to Boston after tonight's show to fill another burlesque engagement engage-ment and then is .coming back to |