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When Chaplin visited Berlin, this is how the enthusiastic populace "mobbed" him.
You'll find him in the center, white-haired, with derby in the air. And only a year
ago, even Hollywood was almost as excited about him as this! Right, as he looked
during one of his few quiet moments in Paris
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ing a trek to the comedian's quaint red-brick studio on La Brea Avenue, for news about him. Even when he was away, in former days, there was a perpetual parade of writers to the studio. They banged the doors in the hope of getting a glimpse of the place where Charlie worked, or touching his shoes or seeing his tattered comedy wardrobe, or the cane that he carried so swaggeringly. "Mecca," the Chaplin studio was called in the old days, and everybody sought to go there sometime to cleanse his soul in the place where screen art truly flourished.
"Just a back number" — that's the insistent refrain. "Charlie can't go on making silent pictures. He'll never make a go of a second one. The novelty of 'City Lights' put it over, but a fat chance he'll have to follow that up!"
The irony is that the last laugh may be Charlie's. After all, he is laughing now financially at the crazy, topsy-turvy movie city. The only picture that has made any really big money in many moons is "City Lights," and that's because of its international distribution.
The returns on "City Lights" will be between three and four million dollars. If "Cimarron," the biggest talker of the past year, gathers in two million dollars, it will be a wonder. Chaplin, grossed approximately half that amount on the New York and London runs of his picture alone, and there's no end to what he has made elsewhere.
I he comedian will certainly be personally richer by more than a million dollars as a result of his exploit in the silents, exclusive of what may be deducted for income tax, and go for alimony, if that is to be charged off.
The Chaplin fame registers in all foreign countries. He set forth on his tour in February, 1931, sailing on the Mauritania. He was lionized in England, sat at the same table with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Sutherland, week-ended with Lord and Lady Astor at their country place in Plymouth, was guest of the Duke of West minister tor boarhunting in Normandy, had tea with Lloyd George in the House of Com
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