CHAPLIN’S NEW FILM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 3

CHAPLIN’S NEW FILM

ENGLISH NOVEL

NO PART FOR HIMSELF

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1

Charlie Chaplin is to direct a film called “Regency,” based on the English novel by D. L. Murray, and Paulette Goddard will take the lending part.

Air. Cltaplin says that he will direct and produce the film, but not ncl irt it himself. Production will begin when Aliss Goddard’s first solo picture, at present known as “Production No. 0,” is completed. Bv buying n scenario irt England Afr. Chaplin is setting a precedent for himself, as Iris invariable custom has been io write his own scripts—or, in earlier days, just make them up as lie goes along. lie showed that he is maintaining his reputation as a philosopher in an Interview which lie gave a few days ago on the beach at Ensenada, Lower California.

He feels that: the world has just: gone tlirough a great transition period; that the lessons of the depression have been hard, but that they are proving very beneficial.

“A few years ago everyone went jigging on the floors of night clubs, with a vacuous look on their faces,” Mr. Chaplin declared. “That has been supplanted by an expression of serious endeavour. There is more sobriety, more naturalness, more simplicity and maturity. And the young people are well alive to the situation. “This is a much more serious generation than the last. The children are cognisant of the task ahead. They know they face a harder future than their parents did; competition is keener and opportunities less.”