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The Great Chaplin's Chase
Callenbach, Ernest | August 4, 1956 issue

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The author says that The actor Charlie Chaplin first arrived in the United States in 1910, a twenty-one-year-old music-hall comedian. He left September 17, 1952, probably for good and amid much acrid publicity, the "one universal man of modern times," or, at the very least, the world's most famous comedian and one of the screen's few great men. Chaplin came from England with a vaudeville company in which he learned much of the pantomime skill he later perfected in his films. Later he was also to produce and score his own films, becoming a unique individual creator in an "art-industry" characterized by extreme division of creative labor.

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CHAPLIN, Charlie, 1889-1977; COMEDIANS; MOTION pictures; ACTORS; VAUDEVILLE; COMMERCIAL art
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