THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
LORD RLEDISLOE, AT HOLLYWOOD.
“Three years ago I visited Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood,’’ said the Gov-ernor-General, speaking at tue Y.M. C.A. headquarters at Wellington the other day. “I had Charles Chaplin on my right, Mary Pickford on my left, and opposite sat Douglas Fairbanks. And T said to Chaplin, I wonder if you realise that you wield much more influence than the greatest archbishop, the greatest statesman, in wliat you do on the film? ‘Oh, we do, don’t we, Doug?’ implied Charlie. ‘There’s no subject we discuss more than the one you have mentioned, but we have to supply a demand, or we lose our job'. If you want a better class of picture, you will have to demand hotter pictures,’ “
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1930, Page 4
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125THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1930, Page 4
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