Appendix A: Tour Itinerary

February

13

Left New York on the Mauretania

19

Arrives Plymouth; boat train to Paddington Station

20

Visits Kennington and Hanwell School

21

Old Bailey/Wandsworth Gaol

22

Chequers

23

Shopping at Burlington Arcade; lunch at Qualino’s with Randolph Churchill and Lord Birkenhead; driving in the country with Philip Sassoon and then dinner in Park Lane

24

Lunch at House of Commons with Philip Sassoon and Lloyd George

25

Luncheon at Lady Astor’s Cliveden; meets Bernard Shaw

26

Dinner and overnight at Churchill’s Chartwell

27

City Lights premiere at Dominion Theatre; after party at Carlton Hotel

March

1

Visits Thomas Burke; visits Convent of the Notre Dame de Sion, north London with Ralph Barton (to visit Barton’s daughter there)

3

Luncheon at House of Commons with Lady Astor, Lloyd George, and Kirkwood; first economic speech; sees George Robey at Holborn Theatre

5

Visit to Eton; entertained by the Eton Society

8

Leaves London via Liverpool Street Station

9

Arrives Berlin, Germany; checks into Hotel Adlon; greets Marlene Dietrich; sees performance of Erich Carow

10

Visits old Berlin; attends Metropole theater with Sir Horace Rumbold; attends party at Karl Vollmueller’s Palais

11

Visits police museum; visits La Scala

12

Snowstorm; Chaplin sick

13

Meets ministers of the Reichstag, Dr. Joseph Wirth among them

14

Tours Potsdam with Price Henry; sees Hans Albers in Liliom

15

Tea with Einstein at his home; leaves for Vienna, where he will speak first words for a sound-film camera

16

Arrives Vienna; visits workmen’s apartments; attends theatre and cabaret

17

Meets Oscar Straus; dines with British Legation

19

Leaves Vienna for Venice

20

Arrives Venice, Italy

21

Attends tea with British consul; visits prisons and dungeons underwater; supper dance

22

Departs Venice

23

Arrives back in Paris; checks into Hotel Crillon; cancels trip to Budapest due to scandal; lunch with Countess Noailles and Aristide Briand at French Ministry building; dinner with Count LeMuir; evening at rehearsal of Folies Bergère with Alfred Jackson

24

Attends boar hunt at Duke of Westminster’s in Saint-Saens, France

26

Meets King Albert of the Belgians at Elysée Palace

27

Receives Légion d’Honneur back in Paris from Aristide Briand

31

Signs Woman’s Home Companion contract with Willa Roberts; departs Paris

April

1

Arrives in Nice, France; greeted by Frank J. Gould and brother Syd Chaplin Elsa Maxwell luncheon; Duke of Connaught for tea City Lights premiere hosted by Prince of Monaco Attends Mrs. Gould’s lunch at Casino, meets Maeterlinck

14

Leaves Nice for Marseilles with intention of visiting Algiers

15

Algiers

26

Back in Marseilles

28

Meets Aimee Semple McPherson in Marseilles and boards same train to Juan-les-Pins

May

French Riviera, mostly Juan-les-Pins

9

Refuses “command performance” from Juan-les-Pins

30

Lunch with Emil Ludwig, Cannes

June

French Riviera, mostly Juan-les-Pins

Stays with H. G. Wells in Grasse

Lunch with Frank Harris in Nice

July

French Riviera, mostly Juan-les-Pins

15

Attends actress Grace Moore’s wedding at Cannes

August

6

Visits Maurice Chevalier at his Cannes villa; drives toward Biarritz with Harry d’Arrast; spends night at Château Brissac at Poitiers

8

Chaplin in auto accident (d’Arrast at the wheel) near Burgal

9

Attends bullfight in San Sebastian, Spain

14

Dines with Winston Churchill at Biarritz

September

1

Biarritz; flies looped-the-loop with Henri Cochet and pilot Michael de Trovat

2

Plays in benefit tennis match in Guethary, Spain

7

Meets Prince of Wales for the first time at a benefit for the war wounded

18

Back in London; mobbed after midnight leaving Café de Paris

19-21

Weekend with Churchill at Chartwell

22

Meets Gandhi at home of C. L. Catial in Beckton-road, Canning Town

23

Attends tea at Lady Ottoline Morrell’s

30

Visits Paddington Green Hospital for Children

October

9

Meeting with Ramsay MacDonald outside House of Commons

23

Attends Conservative election meeting at Plumstead in disguise; meets Dando on the street

24

Sees performance music hall star Charlie Austin at the Victoria Palace

27

Attends election night party at Selfridge’s

November

1

Initiation into the Grand Order of the Water Rats

8

Travels to Manchester and then Stratford-upon-Avon and overnights there

9

Visits Blackburn; stays overnight in White Bull Hotel

10

Brief stop in Chester

13

Attended Edgar Wallace play The Case of the Frightened Lady at the Wyndham Theatre

14-16

Spends weekend with Viscount and Viscountess Astor at the Eliot Terrace, Plymouth-on-Hoe

14

Attends whist drive and dance of the East End Conservative Association; attends fishermen’s service in Plymouth, where he gives a speech

15

Attends opening of new cinema house by the mayor of Plymouth

16

Visits Ballard Institute (boys’ school)

19

Attends Ice Carnival for Northern Hospital—Prince of Wales in attendance

20

Visits the House of Commons with Lady Astor

26

Visits Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors

December

1

Attends court in London, settling suit of secretary May Shepherd

21

In St. Moritz, Switzerland, mastering the art of skiing with Syd Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks

January

24

Carlyle Robinson resigns

27

Serves as dancing judge for the Palace Hotel contest; auctioneer of wines for the Bobsled club

February

St. Moritz

March

5

In Rome at the Hotel Excelsior after triumphal Progress from Milan by car

7

Departs for Kobe, Japan, today from Naples on Suwa Maru

20

In Cairo, after having traveled through Port Said; visits the Sphinx and Great Pyramids of Giza; stays at Shepheard’s Hotel

21

Leaves Port Said for Ceylon

23

Arrives Colombo, motors to Kandy and overnights there

24

Returns to Colombo via motor, tours tea and rubber factories, departs Ceylon

25

Arrives in Singapore, rushed to hospital with dengue fever

28

Departs Singapore for Java

30

Mobbed by children in Batavia, Java

31

Motors to Garoet, overnights at Ngamplang Hotel there

April

1

Motors to Tjipanas Hot Springs, Lake Leles, and Bagentit, take train to Djockja, overnights at Grand Hotel there

2

Visits Borobudur Temple, motors to Soerabaja and overnights at the Orange Hotel

3

Sail for Bali on a K.P.M streamer

19

Comes down with dengue fever

22

Arrives at Singapore, rushed to hospital; recuperating in Singapore; waiting for boat to Japan

May

14

Arrives in Kobe, Japan; arrives twelve hours later in Tokyo

15

Views sumo wrestling in afternoon; Kabuki-za Theater at night; Inuka assassinated

25

Visits Kasuage Prison near Tokyo

28-29

Spends weekend at Miyanoshita, a mountain resort forty-five miles southwest of Tokyo

30

Attends supper in his honor hosted by Ken Inukai (father recently assassinated)

June

2

Lunches with Ken Inukai at popular restaurant Hamacho; calls upon Premier Saito; departs Tokyo on Hikawa Maru

13

Arrives Vancouver, B.C.

16

Arrives Los Angeles

27

“Economic Policy” released to the press

January

7

First half of “A Comedian Sees the World” mailed to Willa Roberts

February

25

Second half of “A Comedian Sees the World” mailed to Willa Roberts

September

First installment of “A Comedian Sees the World” appears in Women’s Home Companion

January

Final installment of “A Comedian Sees the World” appears in Women’s Home Companion