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of many notables including Lord Birkenhead, Count Keyserling, and Mussolini. At their first meeting she proposed doing a bust of Chaplin.
She and her seven-year-old boy were invited to a showing of "The Kid" at Chaplin's studio. Later, as the two discussed life and art, Miss Sheridan started work on his bust. When it was completed, Miss Sheridan reports in her book, "My American Diary," Chaplin studying it, commented, "It might be the head of a criminal, mightn't it?" — Theorizing that criminals and artists are psychologically akin, both have a burning flame of impulse, a vision, and are psychologically outlaws. Miss Sheridan concluded that in Chaplin she had met a man with "a great soul."
Their friendship came to a bizarre ending after a camping trip. Chaplin, Miss Sheridan, and her son in one car were followed by a truck carrying complete camping equipment and by a Ford carrying a chef. The little caravan drove up the coast to an isolated spot between Ventura and Oxnard. After an enjoyable week of recreation in the open they were spotted. Chaplin was identified and the curious appeared from nowhere to gape at him. When two reporters arrived, the party broke camp and returned to civilization.
To ward off reporters nosing a new "romance," Carl Robinson half jokingly made the crack that Clare Sheridan was old enough to be Chaplin's mother. The next day's headlines proclaimed that there would be no marriage with Miss Sheridan, Chaplin having declared her "old enough to be his mother." Miss Sheridan moved from Chaplin's mansion to a hotel. Robinson was ordered to explain his faux pas to the lady. The next day Chaplin saw mother and son off to New York. The interlude was over and he went back to work on "Pay Day."
Pola Negri followed. She arrived in America, in September 1922, to fill a Paramount contract. Chaplin had prepared the ground for her by his tributes to her beauty