VANISH MAGIC BACK ISSUES SPECIAL EDITION No. 2 | Page 6
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Entryway hello from Charlie
April 16, 2016, the night before
the official opening to the public,
a party was held on the premises
honoring (and being attended
by) notables from every sphere of
the world. Swiss papers reported
one hundred and fifty journalists,
from seventy-six countries also
attending. As well, twenty members
of the Chaplin family were present,
including four of his children (Swiss
papers noted) and at least two of his
grandchildren. On April 17th, nearly
every newspaper and TV show in
Europe held prominent mention of
the great Charlie Chaplin, and the
majestic creation CHAPLIN’s WORLD.
Opening Day, April 17, accompanied
by my wife, being fifth and sixth on
line, we entered CHAPLIN’s WORLD
at precisely 10am—when the doors
of CHAPLIN’s WORLD opened to the
rest of the world!
CHAPLIN’s WORLD is situated on
his estate, his home, the Manoir de
Ban. The thirty-six-acres focal point
where he began living in 1953,
after leaving the US under less than
favorable circumstances that befell
his kingly stature.
Chaplin was hounded unethically,
unmorally and with venom worthy
of a man who clearly hated himself,
J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the
(US) Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI). Hoover was a man who
regularly held covert meetings with
Hedda Hopper, the larger-than-life
female Hollywood gossip journalist
and social miscreant. Hoover was
a cross-dresser complete with
earrings that almost dragged on the
floor. No one said anything when
he showed up like this during the
1950’s at parties or when leaving
the FBI building in Washington
DC. (This was the time of the
largest, most profane and patently
ridiculous adventure in fetid
politics man can offer. Hoover was a
hypocritical, social malcontent who
had various assignations with Roy
Cohn, a mafia lawyer. )
Chaplin’s original TRAMP suit from THE KID
Enough darkness—step into the
light of CHAPLIN’s WORLD!
Executed brilliantly by the Grévin
Company, CHAPLIN’s WORLD is a
museum unlike any other the world
over. How delightful to be able
to report to the masses of Earth
——— Charlie Chaplin is alive! If
poetic essence is the intense energy
of life, then Charlie Chaplin is not
dead. Was he ever? At this very
moment, while you read, thousands,
if not millions, are watching a
Chaplin film right now, all over our
planet.
The man who lived, and became,
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
(1889—1977) may have achieved
Gandhian mythology, but,
better. (Interestingly, Gandhi
and Chaplin met in the 1930’s
swapping philosophy.) While Lord
Mountbatten said of Mahatma
Gandhi, “Generations to come will
scarce believe such a one as he
walked among us,” this statement
also applies to Chaplin. Now,
CHAPLIN’s WORLD proves this
indelibly.
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The face is
the mirror of
the mind, and
eyes without
speaking
confess the
secrets of the
heart.
Executed brilliantly by the Grévin Company,
CHAPLIN’s WORLD is a museum unlike any other
the world over. How delightful to be able to report
to the masses of Earth ——— Charlie Chaplin is
alive!
Ben with Chaplin’s bowler hat