TOLD AGAINST HIMSELF
CHAPLIN AND'THE BOY. Charlie Chaplin is telling this one against himself. Charlie was at the races, and a little boy approached the silver-haired comedian and asked him for his autograph. "But,” said Charlie, “you know you don’t remember me in pictures. I was way ahead of your time. Now if your grandmother wanted the autograph that would be different.” The boy went away, but came back in a few minutes. “I just asked grandma,” he said, "and she don't remember you either. Wuz you before hex- time?”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 4
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90TOLD AGAINST HIMSELF Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 4
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