CHAPLIN MAY NEVER ACT AGAIN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 9

CHAPLIN MAY NEVER ACT AGAIN

"I may never, act : on the screen again." This amiouncement was niade recently By Chariie Ghaplin, who declared also that he would not appear in the first talking-picture he is to produce. "I haven't the timo these days to think. about Chaplin the comedian,'' he said, ' "becauso Chaplin the producer and screen writer keeps me •so busy." His statement, pointing out that he had abandoned, ' the idea of croating a new screen personality, *adds anotuer chapter to'one 'of the "biggest draruas behin'd tlie scenes in the film world' — Chaplin 's stOadfast decision "not to t'orsake dumb-show for- 'tailkies. . Even in his latest' "picture, "Modern Times," he kept - faithfuf to " this traclition, for the song he sang as a wuicer hadn't a single intelligible word. "I am deep in a solo writing 30b develping a ' modern comedy to star Paulette- Goddard," he' said. -l shall produce and direct it personally, but have definitely decided not to appear in it myself. ••»•* " •" "The production will be a talkie.J My studios are; already being w.ired . for souiid. I haven't been in a studio since June, preferring to work at home or aboard my boat." Miss Goddard.is, said to ,have been married to Mr. Chaplin for some years, though neither '■ will confirm or deny the story. .... ' . ;