WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 9

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS

PLENTY OF LAUGHTER. Never before has the world been in such dire need of laughter—the kind of laughter which springs wholeheartedly from the antics of the character or characters presented on the screen. Today, more than ever, people on both sides of the Atlantic and in Australasia look to the motion picture industry to take them away from the grim realisation of the present conflict. During the last Avar pictures wore to a great extent in their infancy The theatre was still the strongest force in entertainment, and yet irym the crude attempts of that time, a him character became famous. The , British soldier of that day speaks ot Charlie Chaplin ’with a deep sense of gratitude. He not only provided a figure of fun at which disillusioned people could laugh; he not only created a fantasy world in which tired minds could escape; he became the most important psychological factor in the morale of the army man

Today, another Englishman George Forinby. has taken on the mantle ot the inimitable Chaplin. His popularity with the fighting men is undoubted, as was proved when he recently undertook an entertainment itinerary of the military camps in England.