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"That audition was the worst thing I've ever been through. I couldn't sing. I'd never tried. It was like getting up in front of a lot of-people naked. Some of them were my friends, too." Syd flunked the test as he feared he would.

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S. He boasted that he never voted. Sydney, 31, served as an infantry private in World War II and voted for Adlai Stevenson the first time out. He didn't vote in the last election only because an absentee ballot failed to catch up with him in time. Charlie's morals although Syd will fight you tooth and nail on this were those of an alley cat.

Maybe worse. Syd hasn't married and won't until "I know it will I've seen too many bustups." Charlie is a genius. He admits it himself, and so does THE OLD RELIABLE 100 ORGANIC THE INDIANS TAUGHT THE PILGRIMS TO USE FISH FOR FERTILIZING! Who soys you novo to settle for Imitations? Mod by Nature, ot by theory or man. Don't bo misled by tke following "Mads with or "Contain If littfo Fish to good II Fith mutt bo setter. EX.

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Charlie's record is pretty much-down as he himself wrote it, but, according to Syd, the elder Chaplin did no wrong. On Charlie's disinterest in citizenship: "Dad doesn't belong to one country. Why, he's known and loved in places like Tibet, where they never even heard of Jesus Christ." That was Charlie's argument, too. On his father's sexual promiscuity as charged in the Mildred Harris divorce and the Joan Barry paternity case: "A lot of nonsense." The Department of Justice has disclosed Chaplin will be questioned as to moral turpitude if he ever applies for re-entry to this country. Loyalty On more than $1 million in taxes Charlie allegedly owes the U.

"He doesn't owe a dime," Charlie told one of our tax agents who visited him in Switzerland recently to jump in the nearest lake. On Chaplin's unwillingness to entertain troops or even make an appearance at the USO's Hollywood Canteen during War II: "He was doing enough by paying taxes. Anyway, he was not Up to it physically." Yes, somewhere along the line Sydney Earl Chaplin picked up tremendous loyalty. It isrrt-tmbecom-ing in a son and there is no doubt as to Syd's sincerity. He spent two weeks with Charlie, Charlie's present wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, and their five children in Switzerland the summer before last and found them "tremendously happy." Syd's mother, now 4S, was married for a third time.

The bridegroom was Pat Longo, 30, a Hollywood bank clerk. Syd has met Longo and thinks "he'll be good for her they'll be happy." He denies recurring rumors of a romance between just-divorced Miss Holliday and him. So does Judy. Matinee idol Chaplin displays no temperament on stage or off. Except for a Ferrari sports car, he has no expensive tastes.

The principal of that $200,000 trust set up for him and Charles in their infancy is untouched. Syd doesn't admit that he was ever lonely, even as a child. He will tell you that the atmosphere surrounding his house divided was healthier than the air in some homes where people professed to love each other and didn't. Yet, Syd's dressing room at the Shubert is bare of photographs. Not one of Lita.

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All that money tied up in the show. All that responsibility. And my rotten voice conking out. I never felt worse about anything." Syd's voice held up, but barely. The musical weathered the road nicely and duly opened at the Shubert, its present home, on the evening of Nov.

29. The first review to reach an anxious cast after the performance was that of critic Walter Kerr's. Good Hands Kerr had liked the show without reservation. He wrote of the male "Miss Holliday has an extraordinarily stalwart, lively and infectious companion to chase her through New York penthouses and New Jersey suburbs. He is Sydney Chaplin, who looks a bit like Victor Mature and a bit like his father, Charles, and for all that he was obviously fighting a bad throat last evening the best melodies Long Before I Knew You among them were in very good hands." Kerr continued: "More than that, Mr.

Chaplin is an actor of some substance and great sincerity and when his admitting to himself that he's afraid to tackle a new writing project or when he's gritting his teeth with a simple 'I'll the rest of the globe. He also is a megalomaniac, an odd-ball who thinks he's got the world by the tail and can twist it like a crank. Syd, despite the fine notices accorded him by New York's tough drama critics, is so modest he is almost apologetic. Charlie is moody, withdrawn. His son is warm, outgoing.

Syd didn't get off to any great start in life. He and his brother, Charles one year older than Syd, were born to Charlie and child actress Lita Grey. Skeedadled Charlie married Lita when she was 16, supplied her with the two boys and skeedad-dled, all in less than three years. Fortunately, he also supplied Lita with a $825,000 settlement and a $200,000 trust fund for the boys. Since Lita was working, Syd and Charles Jr.

grew up more or less under the thumb of Lita's mother, Mrs. Lillian Grey. At 6, Syd followed his big brother into the Black Fox military school, Hollywood, where he remained until 14. At 17 he tried to enlist in the army. Lita refused permission.

At 18 he was drafted. Syd remembers that he wrote three letters during his almost three years in the army: one toJLita, one to his father and one to his brother, who was somewhere to the north of him in a field artillery outfit "What the hell can you write when you're in the army?" he asks. "It's a lousy life and who wants to hear about it?" He remembers that his mother and father wrote him. He doesn't say how often. Syd "got to know" his father after being discharged from the army.

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