By Joe Kirkish*CALUMET -- Club Indigo will continue the traditional summer showings of classical American films on Friday, July 10, with Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, 1936, at the Calumet Theatre.
Modern Times, the first film since Chaplin's 1931 hit City Lights, is the swan song for his celebrated Little Tramp persona. The Little Tramp works on a factory conveyer belt, one of millions trying to cope with a modern world dominated by machines. He is caught in the cogs of a malevolent machine, is used to test an automatic feeder and finally runs amok. His further adventures include a spell in prison after being falsely accused of being a Red agitator, and he suffers other indignities until he encounters the Gamin, a gutsy young woman (Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's love on and off the screen) on the lam from juvenile officers. After still more experiences with the vicissitudes of modern life, both she and the Little Tramp toddle off hand in hand into a rural sunset to the tune of Chaplin's own created music -- and the movie's theme song, "Smiles," a tune that became a sensation for years to follow.
The movie begins at 7:15 p.m., preceded at 6 p.m. by an all-California buffet provided by the chefs from the Calumet Miscowaubik Club. Cost for both film and buffet, still $18. Movie alone, $5. Children, half fare. To assure seating at the buffet or to obtain further information, call the Calumet Theatre: 337-2610.
Modern Times has been made possible by the sponsorship of Swede's Gift Shop and Keweenaw Minerals, Copper Harbor.
*Editor's Note: See Joe Kirkish's new blog at http://joekirkish.blogspot.com/
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