![]() ![]() ![]() “Living as we did in the lower strata, it was very easy to fall into the habit of not caring about our diction. It is remarkable that despite their economic poverty, their mother insisted on keeping the richness of their language probably because she was an actress herself. Consequently, she lost her job as a theater actress and their income fell off dramatically as from that moment on, she earned their living through dress-making for church members They moved from a three-room apartment to a two- and then one-room apartment and occasionally, they even lived in the workhouse. In fact, this was the first evening when Charlie Chaplin stood on the theater stage to distract the annoyed audience, and it was his mother’s last as her voice cracked and transformed into a whisper. At the age of five years, his mom’s voice disappeared and she never regained it. ![]()
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