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Photoplay, New York, December 1931.
Charles Chaplin meets Mahatma Gandhi, London 1931
& British PATHE
LONDON
„Charlie“ meets Gandhi
East-enders in thousands, turn out to greet two famous
little men, with cries of „good old Charlie“ and „good old Gandhi“!
(...) London, Sept. 22, 1931, title of newsreel footage
& Gandhi‘s Hibernian Strain.
Reported colloquy between Charles Chaplin
and the mahatma:
Charlie – Your face seems familiar. I‘ve either seen
you before or some one very much like you.
Gandhi – Well, I‘ve never seen you before – or else it‘s some
one else very much like you I‘ve never seen before.
– Transcript.
(...) Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash., Jan. 1, 1932
„Charlie Gandhi, Hindu film comic“
Editorial content. „Oh, dear – this picture has us all confused
and bothered. The dark man on the left must be Charlie Gandhi,
Hindu film comic, and the gent in the bed–sheet looks like
the Mahatma Chaplin, of Hollywood. Goodness, the engraver
has messed this all up!“
Photo. Charles Chaplin and Mahatma Gandhi
in changed clothes (or rather heads).
Redaktioneller Inhalt
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