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Joan Jordan, Photoplay, New York, July 1921

„Charlie Chaplin and his mother are together again“

Editorial content. „Mother o´ Mine

      The story of Charlie Chaplin‘s reunion with his mother

      By Joan Jordan

      In the wide, bay window of a charming house on a hill

in Hollywood, sits a little, gray-haired woman, with

delicate old hands folded upon the upon pages of her Bible.

      Every day, just as the sun is setting behind the

waving line of hills, a big, expensive motor draws up before

the door.

      A slender young man, in blue, jumps out and runs

lightly up the broad, white steps.

      A white-capped maid opens the heavy door.

      Often the little gray-haired woman rises from her seat

in the window and takes a few faltering steps to meet

the man in the doorway of her drawing-room. Almost always,

now...

      On the evenings when she does not, he slips quietly

in and sits down beside her in the window, holding her hand

in his.

      Because then he knows that her gentle mind has

strangely slipped back to the horrors of a Zeppelin raid, to the

shock of bursting shells and crashing buildings, death

screams and imminent destruction.

      And she does not even know he is there!

      By either way – Charlie Chaplin and his mother are

together again.“ (...)

      Drawing.

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