Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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trip around the world; Paulette Goddard 245 wards had a brief career in Hollywood and the latter was to marry Ernst Lubitsch. Chaplin indicated to Robinson that he wTould like to dance with Sari. He found her adept in the tango, his favorite step, and the rest of the evening he monopolized her, in spite of Robinson's warnings that the press would report him engaged. A new romance began and Robinson was forced to squire Sari in public in order to keep the reporters off the track. By this time Barton had tired of the excitement. He was moody and insisted on sailing home. Soon after his return, he committed suicide. Then another sudden Chaplin faux pas. He failed to keep a dinner engagement with the Prime Minister. The explanation given to the son was that he was required to attend the Berlin opening of his picture. Then, to make matters worse, he was on the point of delaying his departure, to have another day with Sari. Carl Robinson virtually dragged him to the train, leaving young MacDonald stupefied and Sari Maritza furious. Since his last visit the Germans had become Chaplin fans and the Berlin ovation outdid London's. Among the first to welcome Chaplin was Marlene Dietrich, whom he had met a year or so before when she was brought to Hollywood by his former protege, Josef von Sternberg. Later, there was an afternoon reception with several members of the Reichstag who expressed pessimism over Germany's economic future. Theatre-going and night-clubbing with Karl von Vollmueller and others, Chaplin was impressed by an exotic dancer named La Jana. On being informed that she was the favorite of the old Crown Prince, he switched his interest to Betty Amann, a German movie actress with a reported San Francisco origin. Chaplin returned Einstein's earlier visit. The comedian found the great scientist a simple and congenial man. At his modest home Einstein's son quipped, "You are popular because you are understood by the masses. On