Charlie Chaplin (1951)

the classic Mutual comedies 81 room to the other, and soup plates sliding from person to person as each helps himself in turn. To comfort two weeping women, mother and daughter, who have just been robbed by a gambler, Charlie slips his crap winnings in the girl's pocket. The suspicious purser catches him as he is tempted to retain a bill or two. But the girl, finding the money, frees him and gives him tearful thanks. "The arrival in the Land of Liberty." As the ship passes the Statue of Liberty, the passengers are shoved and roped in like cattle, and Charlie takes a quizzical second look at the statue. Ashore, "Later — hungry and broke," he picks up a coin, which slips through his torn pocket. He enters a restaurant, where a bullying waiter orders him to remove his hat, which Charlie finally does by making it bounce up into the air. Then he pantomimes musical fruit (beans), which he delicately masticates one by one. Suddenly he spies the girl sitting alone across the aisle. He hugs her and leads her over to his table. Clasping her hands, he discovers she is clutching a blackbordered handkerchief and so learns of her mother's death. With a look of infinite sympathy he lowers her hand. After a poignant pause their spirits revive. Officiously Charlie orders food for Edna. As they eat, six waiters manhandle a customer who, Charlie is informed, "was ten cents short." Just then he discovers his own loss. An old tramp who has picked up the coin, enters. He hands it to the waiter, who drops it to the floor and steps on it. As he turns, it is deftly covered by Charlie's foot. The waiter, securing the coin, bites it and finds it to be counterfeit. The slumped and despairing Charlie is given another lease on life when an artist, there in search of unusual models, takes an interest in the couple. When Charlie's bill is presented he and the artist wrestle for it with ex