NEW "NAPOLEON."
MR. CHARLES CHAPLIN
Be/ore his somewhat abrupt departure from England, following on the actions brought against him by his publicity agent, Miss May Shepherd, Charles Chaplin was discovered to be working in secret on a script in which he took the part—in all seriousness—of Napoleon. Paul Botha, compiler of film history, and Miles Mander, film director, were workiug on the script with Chaplin. The story was that Napoloen escaped from St. Helena and settled down in an obscure French village. Here, years later, the Tsar of Russia, travelling through, recognised him. The Tsar was to' be / played by Chaliapiu, the Russian basso. The story is capped by the fact that a preck syndicate was offering to put up money for it. C'haplin has nursed this Napoleonic complex of his for years. A long time ago lie planned a similar screen drama. Pola Negri was to be Empress Josephine. Stills -were actually taken of the pair of thdm. Unfortunately a three-cornered hat and Napoleonic pose, far from revealing ■ /Chaplin in the light of a great tragedian, made- him look even more ridiculously funny. Chaplin hastily abandoned the idea and ordered every " still " to be detek ftroyed. t
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19320206.2.167.64.6
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)
Word Count
198NEW "NAPOLEON." New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.
Log in