Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Aug 1919)

,a;ic A Dozen Chaplins, and They Are All Charlie {Continued from page 19) iiiul worker. Sometimes he will rea e a scene ten times and “take it” e|:y times over. rkould not be truthfully said that he i^;s; he leads. Usually he shows ^ member of the cast how to do his The actors of the company always eiiim. Charlie is a splendid fellow. ;iets the name of being a miser beLV; he does not follow' the usual actor Stjad of calling in the neighbors to ;ti him dispense his charities. His hities are offered with the shy timidijf a child holding out a cookie. [[!e fact is, Charlie know's very little 3! his own or anybody else’s money i^irs. He couldn’t buy a bag of peatjjwithout being cheated iti the proc|| His brother Syd invests all his Wy, and a very shrew'd investor is hey. Btnetimes Charlie has a whole twenty||r bill in his pocket, and he feels a il’s delight in it. He weighs it around d|’crinkles it up and shows it to his ^ids. D late years Charlie has been inbd into “stepping around in society.’’ lere is a peculiar charm to social ntions in Los Angeles. Probably noiije in the world do so many great bities make their home. To a sort [ -ee-and-easy Western air is added (charm of individual distinction, lie would choke to death trying to he the air of a stiffer and more rial society, but he finds a charming i anionship in a certain circle of wellLos Angeles people who welcome r He doesn’t have to pose ; he can be I mple, genuine self. il|je truth is, Chaplin is so shy that in t arlier days in Los Angeles he used nit in his hotel room until a bell-boy reported that the barroom was ly, when Charles would take a long be and slide dowm for a glass of ale f;e anybody could find him. If any ^interrupted him in his solitary libar he turned and scuttled out like an iited crah. t en toda3^ wdien you first meet Chap,:e is painfully bashful. The simplest :1 conventions seem to be anguish to r I once saw him left alone in a 3,. with a man to whom he had not t'een introduced. He looked around :.ch a wild and alarmed way that I )ght he w'as going to leap out of the now to escape. But when he is sure i ce is broken he is a charming comron. He has read a good deal and he s found some quaint angles to all of I leading. Vhen you can turn the conversation s own early struggles you are sure ;golden hour. (ae night at dinner a prominent soil woman in Los Angeles was trying ut Chaplin at his ease by talking of Dwn days of poverty.. “rou dont know anything about povt)” she said to him. “Why, when I iia young girl, my family was so poor Seventy-one) that I used to get up before daybreak to scrub oft’ the front doorstep so that the neighbors would not know that we did not keep a servant.’’ “My God!’’ said Chaplin, wringing hi? hands in mock wonderment; “imagine having a doorstep !’’ When Charlie finds a congenial soul, all sense of time, place and circumstance are forgotten. Not long ago Chaplin met a young English author and his wife. They took a great fancy to each other. They all Iiad dinner together and they spent the evening together. W’hen at one o’clock the cafe closed, Charlie went out to the author’s home and stayed until four o’clock in the morning, talking of books and music. At an evening party not long ago one of Chaplin’s friends told him how her little boy had cried because he could not come also and see the adored comedian. His .sympathetic heart touched, Charlie insisted upon calling a taxicab and they went out to the friend’s house. There in the nursery they found, a little tearstained face upon the pillow. The baby had cried himself to sleep. Can you imagine where heaven was that night, when the kiddie waked and found Charlie Chaplin sitting on the side of his hed? For an hour Charlie sat there telling him stories. To the rage of the distant hostess, who lost her star guest, Charlie forgot all about the party and did not go back. There is another social circle of which Charlie is more afraid than he is afrai’d of ghosts. They caught him just once, never again. It is a high-brow circle headed by a motion picture director’s wife. She is a culturine expert of illustrious and high degree. She has salons at which everybody soars. None of them know exactly what they are talking about, but that is a detail. Charlie sat frozen to his seat. Ever since then, on occasion, he has been giving the most excruciatingly funny imitations of the people he saw there. There is no Chaplin picture on the screen as funny as Charlie’s take-off of the lady who quoted Bergson. If she ever sees it there will be a murder. Every Tuesday night Charlie is a prize-fight fan. Just beyond the edge of the city there is a little factory town named Vernon, where sports flourish. There are two or three roadhouses where the one-step is propagated. There is Jack Doyle’s fight arena, where the fistic art is cultivated. Almost every big movie star in the business is to be seen at the ringside every Tuesday night. Charlie rents two ringside seats by the year. Near him sits Douglas Fairbanks. When she is in California, Mrs. Vernon Castle has the ringside seats next to Chaplin’s. 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