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McCabe's book is a collection of everything ever written about Chaplin as well a8 yet-unpublished material taken from conversations with another master of comedy, Stan Laurel.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

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business and government 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. .

““Y’ve really learned a lot besides meeting many in- teresting and really nice people in my travels.”

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