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向世界各地的卓别林迷致意 |
My first contact with the world of Charlie Chaplin goes back
to the year 1967 when the World's Fair was held in Montreal. It was
called Expo67 and at the Swiss Pavilion, I saw a gem of a film called
THE CURE. It was just 20 minutes long and had been directed
by Charlie Chaplin 50 years
earlier.
Then, as laughter would have it, when Expo67 became Man and his
World
a year later, the Swiss Pavilion was transformed into the Humour
Pavilion.
Here are some of the facts behind this Chaplinesque moment. April
16, 1917, the day THE CURE opened in theatres happened to
be Chaplin's 28th birthday! Eight days later, Chaplin received a
telegram signed by 4 people; it informed him that he was being sued
for damages following a screening of the film. The suit
mentioned "severe pain in the side" due to having laughed too hard
during the screening of THE CURE. The telegram was signed
by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlotte
Pickford and Ted
Hammer... friends of course but as it would turn out, Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford,
America's sweetheart couple,
would later co-found United Artists with Charlie
Chaplin and D.W. Griffith.
Now it's your turn to put your thinking caps on:
Here are 2 multiple-choice questions, the answers to which you will
find in the next issue of the Newsletter.
1. In the opening sequence of CITY LIGHTS, we see a
monument with 3 statues representing
A. 3 women
B. 3 men
C. 2 women and 1 man
D. 2 men and 1 woman
2. After completing MODERN TIMES, Chaplin boarded a
liner with Paulette Goddard and her mother Alta, for a trip to the
Orient where Chaplin and Goddard would marry. What was the
name of the liner on which they sailed and on which they ran into Jean Cocteau?
A. The President Coolidge
B. The President Hoover
C. The President Roosevelt
D. The President Wilson |
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