10 Monday, May 8, 1972 University Daily Kansan Chaplin Shines in 'Times' By BARBARA SCHMIDT Korean Reviews Editor Kansan Reviews Editor Charlie Chaplin, the little fellow "chase," and badgy trousers, wanted so desperately to conform and be accepted, but forever remained an outsider. Charlie Chaplin, the actor, producer director and composer, beloved king of silent film comedy and after a dozer more years, was barred from America's shores for his left-wing views. Four weeks ago Hollywood "forgive" Chaplin—and vice versa—with tears, praise and what must be the longest overdue Oscar in Academy Award history. Chaplin is no god, as some people seem to think. But few would dispute his position as one of the truly original comic Theatre Dept. Gets $10,000 For Programs The KU theatre department receives recent grants of $10,000 from the Shubert Foundation. The grant is for use in further development of the theatre. Tom Rex, assistant director of theatre, said Thursday that because the grant was used the grant had not been determined. The Shubert Foundation was established by two former New York producers it awards grants to artists and educators to encourage play writing. Two University of Kansas students have been awarded a grant to support fellowships, which allowed them to spend a year writing a play. The first recipient, Steve Bibb, wrote the student's "quantrill," which was produced in the Experimental Theatre in 1970. This year's recipient, David Willis, Wichita graduate student, has just completed his play. GIRLS: Before you take a job, check with us. Mr. or Mrs. Sperry 816 765-0256 or write 9348 Bales Court Kansas City, Missouri 64132 geniuses of this century. Thus it seems fitting that, as the school year ends, we should have the opportunity to see not only the film "The Picture Show," "The French Connection"a and "The Godfather"b, but also a Chapin classic, "The Modern Times"c. "MODERN TIMES" was Chaplin's last silent picture. He made it in 1936, nine years after his death, with a film called *Singer*, that movie actors really did have vocal cords. "Modern Times" isn't too late, without the usual pretense of having with title cards there are Chaplin's score and occasional speeches that apparently were made to sing a song in gibberish. But as he said, "He made sure to the silent medium, partly because he believed in its purity as a comic instrument and partly as an artist," the pictures deal a deadly blow to the popularity of such fellow comedians as Admiral Nelson, Buster Kutton, and the real ones (who incidentally, was given a special Oscar in 1952 as "master comedian and good citizen—at least in this case, Chaplin was being castigated). "MODERN TIMES" is Chaplin's satire on surviving in the machine age. But plot is as much about survival as an excuse for the Tramp to hitch his pants, quirk his moustache and stumble from one side to another in a course of action he works as a puppet-like bolt tightener in a factory filled with convex bearlets, levers and gigantic cogwheels, is used by Communist leader, thwarts a prison break while under the influence of those powerful machines to boastily sing an enough to singlehandedly sink an uncompleted ship, spends a night as a roller skating guard in a band called the singing waiter, who can't remember lyrics and, time after time, receives Paulette Goddard from the clutches of the police. CHAPLIN FILMS are great because they contain a wonderful melange of hilarious gags, sex and a deep-seated love for all that makes man human. How can anyone forget something so funny? Rush! delicately eating a boulder shoe and fried shoes as though they were fish and spaghetti? Pinning on roller skating masterfully on the edge of a banisterless one-story drop in "Modern Times" only to lose all my fun. Alpinism is blindfolded and the danger becomes evident? Or Chaplin, in The Great Balloon globe? There is truth in all of this, the truth of human nature, human fallacies and human dreams. As James Agee writes in his balloon globe: "the first man to give the silent language a soul." "MODERN TIMES," like most of Chaplin's features, isn't a continually hilarious as the earlier shorts, mainly because he has used the less necessitated a slower pace. There are, however, more than enough opportunities for belly laughing. Chaplin being made up of jaws by the Billing Feeds Machine; Chaplin going beserk in the factory and tightening his foreman's nose instead of a bolt; Chaplin running through a nearly incapacitated Chester Conklin a fried chicken—whole. 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For those of us who never watched a movie like Charlie Chaplin, just a friend of the Museum of Modern Art and who didn't spend our formative years as members of college film festivals a couple of years ago, remember them, a friends remembered, a friendly little man who occasionally popped up on TV in an early short film about the life of mythical "grandfather" to people like Lucille Ball. Red Skelton, Dick Van Dyke and all other features and many of his pictures were available only to the elite. His features and many of his pictures were sanctioned by Hollywood, his features, beginning with "Modern Times" and "City Light" are being available for distribution. The result, I think, will be renewed appreciation of Charlie Chaplin's fresh and sparkling despite the intervening years. Mack Sennett once called Chapin "simply the greatest artist that remains fresh, but if you're ever whiling away a rainy day by compiling a new book, don't overlook Charlie Chaplin As the result of a desire to present a program of what they have learned while at the University of Kansas, Ric Averil, Topeka senior, and Dave Morgentshen, Prairie Village School, participated in an Experiment with Light, Film, Movement and Music." The program will be presented at 7 and 8 p.30 m. Monday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas University Wednesday in the Pine Room The music for the presentation is composed and conducted by Ariel Averill and will be performed at the Fall 2015 event presented with a slide-show, and later with a film by Dave Morgenstern. ALFRED A. ZWEIMILLER "Most of the frames are from existing films which I chopped-up and edited in various ways," he said. 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