"VIVE CHAPLIN!"
Film Comedian Mobbed by Wild
Parisian Crowd.
TOUR OF TRIUMPH.
(Received 12 Noon.) PARIS, March 22.
Charlie Chaplin's amazing tour of the (capitals of Europe culminated in a boisterous reception at the Gare de Lyon, on his arrival from Venice. A policeman had to rescue the comedian from the clamouring thousands, who carried him bodily from the platform. The police had literally to right off his admirjrs. "Charlie" was thrown bodily into a waiting motor car, which scattered the crowds. He looked pale and worried. Crowds lined the route shouting •"Vive Chaplin!"
According to the "Morning Post," Charlie Chaplin will lunch with M. Briand, the French Foreign Secretary, to-morrow, when he will be decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honour. On Wednesday he will be the guest of the Duke of Westmins' .r in a boar hunt.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 7
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