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the other hand, the professor's popularity with the masses is because he is not understood."
Conversation dealt largely with the depression. Modern machines need less men. This has cheapened the cost of commodities. Money must cheapen, too. Chaplin launched into his attack on the gold standard. "These two mediums of exchange — credit and gold — will never stabilize prices, for credit is more elastic than gold. Therefore the value of all our enterprises built up on credit will always be at the mercy of the gold standard which can reduce those values at will." Einstein smiled, "You're not a comedian. You're an economist." Chaplin was pleased. The Barrymores, similarly, used to be delighted by compliments on their musical or artistic talents, their acting being taken for granted. Chaplin's solution for nearly everything was: "Reduce the hours of labor, print more money, and control prices."
After visits to Vienna and Venice, Chaplin returned to Paris for a meeting with M. Briand. The latter did not speak English and was weighed down by responsibilities. While awaiting word of the impending ceremonial award to him of the Legion of Honor, King Albert of the Belgians expressed a desire to meet the actor. The encounter was rather formal. Chaplin's seat was set considerably below the king's. This may have suggested one of the comic scenes in "The Great Dictator." Chaplin accepted the Duke of Westminster's invitation to a boar hunt in Normandy. He had reason to rue it. All the way to the south of France, he was under the care of a masseur.
Frank Jay Gould, who owned the Majestic Hotel and the Casino at Nice, and had once been married to Edith Kelly, a sister of Arthur and Hetty, invited Chaplin to visit him. Gould did not hesitate to exploit the publicity value of Chaplin's visit. At Nice Chaplin had a reunion with his brother Sidney and Sidney's wife, who had been living in Nice to get out of American income tax difficulties.