Volume 32, Number 20 · December 19, 1985
Goodbye Charlie
By Luc Sante
Chaplin: His Life and Art
by David Robinson
McGraw-Hill, 792 pp., $24.95
Charlie Chaplin
by Maurice Bessy
Harper and Row, 438 pp., $50.00
In his autobiography, Charles Chaplin briefly tells of a night in 1919, when he was in New York, dodging process servers in the first of his several painful legal imbroglios. He had decided to change hotels to confound his pursuers, but it was a late hour and he could find no room unbooked. His taxi driver offered to put him up at home in the Bronx. That night Chaplin shared a bed with the driver's already sleeping twelve-year-old son. He himself did not sleep, for fear of waking the boy. In the morning the neighborhood children filed in to gaze at him as he ate his toast.[1]
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