Meditations
from Florida
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Tekst: Juul Lentze
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t is noise shoes
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i Ijk Years after he made his first
S movies I discovered that
Tjalie was Charlie Chap-
S lin, a famous movie star.
As a child I always
thought that the little
tramp was the real Tjalie,
and was surprised to find that he
didn't look like that at all.
Chaplin's movie, Modern Times, was
- like many of the others he made -
a kind of social commentary, in this
case on life on the assembly line in
factories (remember Henry
Ford?). He showed
'v/* q| Jft how mind-numbing
- IE M the repetitive work on
W(" the line could be.
hut we were too young
jm to understand
Jp that when we "17,
tz jBf saw Charlie in
his movies and
JR we only found him
extremely funny. I
My brother and I even tried to 1
imitate him and walked around J
in Pa's shoes, 1
One of the peop- 3A 1
le honored on a us A
Celebrate the Cen
tury U.S. postage
stamp is Charles
Spencer Chaplin.
He was born in Lon
don on April 16, 1889
and came to America
in 1913 where he star
ted out as a comedian in the movies.
He brought the world a lot of laughs
and often a message at the same time
My parents talked a lot
about Tjalie Tjaplin and
how funny he was.
He was instantly recog
nizable as the Litte
Tramp with his mous
tache, cane, derby hat
and funny walk in
shoes that were too
big. Koplok-koplok
shoes we called them
m ^Nlei
