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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).


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