SURPRISE FOR CHARLIE

Evening Star, Issue 20780, 30 April 1931, Page 15

SURPRISE FOR CHARLIE

MR CHAPLIN AT CHEQUERS “DUMMIES” IN THE LIBRARY. Charlie Chaplin, alter ho had visited the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay Macdonald, at Chequers, said: “I have had a wonderful, marvellous day. JnSt to think of that ancient house, filled with the wonderful treasures I saw! It was so restful, so sedate. But I would not have such a big house myself, for I am a bachelor, and it would bo too big. “ Your Premier is so understanding and simple; he put me at my ease'at once. Miss Ishbcl was very kind, too. Wo talked about everything under the sun. And wo just had a happy time. “ I inn afraid that I talked about myself too much. But Mr Macdonald turned the tables on me. Mo was the comedian to-day. Wo were talking about literature, and he was showing mo the library. ‘Those beautiful bindings,’ I exclaimed as I anno to one bookcase. I could buy hooks for their bindings alone, especially some of the beautiful French works. I lovo just to take them in my hands!’ The Premier invited me to examine some of these books. When I tried to pick one up, I found that they were only dummies. The backs were fixed on wood to hide a door!” Mr Chaplin sighed with ecstasy as ho said: “How beautiful to live iu these places and be able to appreciate them! I saw as a home, what you would expect to see only in a museum.” ' As Charlie sat beside the writer m the motor car, ho carried a small red rose, which had a stalk nearly a foot long. “ It’s a souvenir,” he said. There is no prouder woman in England to-day, than the _ cook at Chequers, for Charlie Chaplin told her how much ho had enjoyed his lunch.