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Harry Lang, Photoplay, New York, May 1930.

City Lights Sets, Los Angeles, 1929, Karl H. Klein Family

„As though the Chaplin on the screen were another person“

Editorial content. „No Talkies for Charlie

      Some intimate and never-told facts about the screen´s

      only practical genius

      By Harry Lang

      Charlie Chaplin likes stewed tripe and hates whisky.

He does like good wines, and drinks cocktails when

the occasion seems to require it. Before prohibition, he always

had a well-stocked cellar, never drank much himself,

and always was a perfect host alcoholically. Since prohibition

came, the same is true.

      Besides stewed tripe, he likes lamb stew.“ (...)

      „He never took a music lesson and plays proficiently

the piano, organ, violin, cello, concertina, saxophone, guitar

and ukulele. He has a huge pipe organ in his home,

and sits alone at it for hours, improvising. He bows his violin

and cello with his left hand, fingering with his right.

The instruments are strung ,backwards.‘

      He lives alone in a huge house with six male servants.“ (...)

      „His hair grows very fast. He has to have it cut at least

four times  a month.“ (...)

      „He bathes as often as four times a day. When he rises,

and at noon, and before dinner, and before bed.“ (...)

      „He likes women and likes to be in their company but

is afraid of them.“ (...)

      „He plays bridge well and after a half hour, he quits.“ (...)

      „When he reads, he wears horn-rimmed glasses.

He does not smoke.“ (...)

      „When he discusses how he appears on the screen,

he doesn‘t say ,I.‘ He says ,he,‘ as though the

Chaplin on the screen were another person entirely.“ (...)

      „He hates yes-men and loves arguments.“ (...)

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