PAGE 18 THE HERALD, Tuesday, March 14, 1978

Real Charlie Chaplin.

revealed in biography

(CL} — The thy, eccentric,
nonintellectual who was the
real Charlie Chaplin got lost
in a press-created image of
arrogance and scandal, says
the author of a soon-to-be-
blished biography of The
tle Tramp.
-John McCabe, a Lake
Superior State College
professor, says Chaplin
spent his life fighting his
shyness and low selfopinion.
“1 don't think that’s
generally known about
him,” said McCabe in an
interview. “The public
image.is one of a con-

tentious, arrogant fellow.

That wasn’t the real Chaplin
by any meana.”

McCabe said ‘Chaplin’s
childhood was the deter-
mining force of both his
person and his profession.

“He had three things
against him—he was small,
he was shy and he was
working class at a cruel
time. Victorian London was

cruel to people not in the .

per or middle classes.”

“Even when he was cld,
Chaplin trembled at what
Victorian England had done
to him and his brother.’

McCabe's book is a
collection of everything ever
written about Chaplin as well
a8 yet-unpublished material
taken from conversations
with another master of
comedy, Stan Laurel. DUE
SOON

The 38page book,
commissioned three years
ago, Is due for publication in
April by Doubleday. McCabe
sald the publishing date was
pushed up because of the
expected. rash of books

resulting from Chaplin's”
death

The 38-year-old comedian
died last Christmas morning

at his home in Switzerland. .

During his research,
McCabe said he came to
believe that Chaplin was
unhappy for most of hia life
watil he met his fourth and
final wife, Oona O'Neil, who
married the then 54-year-old
comedian when she was just
18.

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Chaplin, the professor
said, was ‘'a shy, eccentric

non-intellectual whi

husbanded his genius
carefully to become the
greatest actor-comedian of
this century."” .

But the change in the at-
titude of the press towards
Chaplin hurt, McCabe sald.
Where at first Chaplin could
do no wrong, he was later
denounced for his leftist
political leanings and his so-
called scandalous love life.

“He was deeply wounded
by these press attacks,’’
McCabe said. “His films
were blacklisted; U.S.
senators called him dreadful
names; the American
Legion boycotted his films,
and then when he was in mid-
ocean leaving the country for
Switzerland in 1952, he was
told by the United States
attorney-general he would
have to prove his moral
fitness if he ever wanted to
return.”

LIFE ‘INTERESTING’

As for Chaplin’s sup-
posedly scandalous love life,
McCabe merely labels it
interesting.

The fact is, he said, the

‘oomedian was attracted to

young girls because they
reminded him of his first
love, Hetty Kelly, a 16-year-
old chorus girl who dated
Chaplin four or five times
before breaking off the
relationship because she felt
she was too young to get
serious. n

Therift destroyed Chaplin,
maintained the professor, so
that for the rest of his life he
felt the appeal of young,

_pétlte, fairy princess types

like Hetty.

Chaplin's first wife,
Mildred Harris, and the
second, Lita. Grey, were
pregnant when he married
them: The child of the first
marriage was bom with
birth defects and died not
long after birth.

Of the two children he had
by Lita Grey, one, Charles
Jr, now is dead and Sydney,
a businessman and actor,

lives in Parts.

HAD EIGHT CHILDREN
Chaplin went on to have

eight children by his third

wife, Paulette Goddard,

before meeting and

marrying Oona O'Neil.
“Two things were his

salvation—QOona and ten-.

nis,’* sald McCabe. “He took
up tennis in his middle age.
It took out his tensions and
satisfied his need to use
himself constantly. _
“Without those two things,

‘he would have had a very

unhappy life.”

Unhappy, yes, but never
u nadventurous, th
professor said. Im-
petuousness was always a
great part of his life.

“He had a series of en-

thusiasms over the years.
Stan told me of Chaplin's

great water diet, his decision -#
to learn to speak Greek and §
then hig taking up yoga, long §

before it was fashionable.”
But it was the creatlon of
The Little Tramp which was
Chaplin's greatest feat, said
McCabe. :

“He is particularly memo-
rable, not only because of his

* great humor, but because of

his t pathos, The humor
and the pathos are en-
compassed in the character
at the same time.

“At the end of my book I
ped john Drxden:
‘Legion's his name; a people
ina man.’ That is the clown
Charlie Chaplin.”

Fun on the fifth day

TORONTO (CP) — Marion
LeFeuvre has found a whole
new world since her office
went on a four-day week.

Rather than spend that
fifth day doing household
chores and weekly grocery
shopping, Mrs. LeFeuvre is
spending her time expanding
her mind and her horizons
and it costs her almost

nothing,

Using the elty of Toronto
as her classroom, the
membership secretary for
the Scarborough Golf and

Country Club visits govern- -

ment buildings, factories,
back stages of theatres,
takes walking tours and
moat recently dropped in te
see how Canada’s news-

‘gathering agency, The Ca-

nadian Press, operates.

“I can't afford to travel
and I wanted to learn about
my own city and what goes
on behind the walls of the
high-rise offices and other
business that make Canada

‘and the city tick,” she said.

“Tt really inspires me,"

To avoid disappointment,
Mrs. LeFeuvre always tele-
phones before she embarks
on one of her mini-tours and
so af, she has found that

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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officials are delighted at her
desire to look inside their
operations.

“So far I’ve visited the To-
ronto Stock Exchange, the
provincial government
buildings, Toronto city hall,
Massey Hall, hotels and a
number of business offices
that interest me,” she said.
“T'm learning a lot about the
world and I think it makes
my conversation more inter-

ting.”

She said that she reads her
Jocal newspapers and from
them selects her next tour:

“One of the weekend
magazines hada story about
the old King Edward Hotel
being renovated, soI decided
to drop in and take a look at
what they are doing there,”’

“TI know that the hotel

people probably thought. I
"was pretty snoopy, but it was

interesting to see something
being: fixed up for the
pleasure of cthers,"’ she said.

Mrs. LeFeuvre doesn’t
mind the solitude of her
once-a-week trips. .

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besides meeting many in-
teresting and really nice
people in my travels.”

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