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visioning new horizons, emerged from these contacts. It was, in a sense, a belated education for Chaplin whose formal schooling had been sketchy.
In this period charades and similar games were enjoyed, among them one in which a player, impersonating a chosen character, was called upon to make a speech on some incongruous subject. Charlie, as "A Toothless Old Veteran," would be asked to discourse on "The Benefits of Birth Control" or, dressed as Carrie Nation, to express "Some Doubts as to the Origin of Species." In one Chaplin preached the sermon on David and Goliath which he was later to incorporate into "The Pilgrim." In fact, the film was probably built around this skit. Party groups would also draw titles and then be asked to improvise a one-act play. All this was valuable training as well as fun.
Not long after the premiere of "The Kid" Chaplin arranged to have his mother brought over from England. The mission was entrusted to his secretary, Tom Harrington. This gave rise to fresh slanders. Gossip had it that Chaplin had refused to pay the passage and that she had been forced to travel steerage! Because of her mental condition, there were difficulties in securing her admission into the United States. The elderly, broken-minded woman, carefully coached by Tom Harrington, almost passed the immigration tests but irritation over the crossexamination produced an outburst. A medical committee judged her inacceptable and detained her at Ellis Island. But on Chaplin's guarantee that his mother would be under the care of specialists and would never become a public charge she was finally admitted.
According to the Chaplin publicity releases "she was brought here so she may overcome the nervous mental condition that she is now suffering as the result of shell shock" during the Zeppelin raids. While resting at the Hotel Flanders in New York, Mrs. Chaplin was quoted as saying, "I never saw Spencer in the cinemas."