SURPRISE FOR CHARLIE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 12

SURPRISE FOR CHARLIE

MR CHAPLIN AT CHEQUERS “DUMMIES” IN THE LIBRARY Charlie Chaplin, after he had visited the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, at Chequers, said: “I have had a wonderful, marvellous day. Just to think of that ancient house, filled with the wonderful treasures 1 saw. But I would not have such a big house myself, for I am a bachelor, and it would be too big. “Your Premier is so understanding and simple; he put me at my ease at once. Miss Ishbel was very kind, too. We talked about everything under the sun. And we just had a happy time. “I am afraid that 1 talked about, myself too much. But Mr MacDonald turned the tables on me. He was the comedian to-day. We were talking about literature and he was showing me bookcase. ‘I could buy books for their the library. Those beautiful bind ings,’ I exclaimed as I camo to one bookcase. ‘1 could buy books for their bindings alone, especially some of th. beautiful French works. 1. love just tu 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 he said: “How beautiful to live m these places and be. able to appreciate them! I saw as a home <vhat you expect to see only in a museum.’ As Charlie sat beside the writer in the. motor-car lie, carried a small red rose, which had a stalk neariv a foot long. “ It is a souvenir. ” he said. There is no prouder woman in Engllnd today than tho cook at Chequers, for Charlie Chaplin told her how much he had enjoyed his lunch.