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When 聲gel Augier interviewed Charlie Chaplin
By: Luis Hern嫕dez Serrano | Photos: Courtesy of the Augier Family
"Reading the evening papers in my hotel room, I had the idea of trying to interview Charlie Chaplin." Thus, on the birth centennial of the famous British actor, Cuban poet, writer and journalist Angel Augier alluded to the "exceptional experience" of his interview.
This took place in the Ritz Hotel in Paris on Wednesday October 29, 1952, when the consummate mimic was visiting from London for the premiere of his latest film, Limelight, [in French Les feux Ramp and Candilejas in Spanish], which would premiere in the Biarritz cinema on the Champs Elysees; a premiere to which Augier was invited.
"I immediately spoke with a colleague, then resident in Paris, who had an excellent camera, and invited him to participate in the bold journalistic attempt."
The poet, a technology professor at the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Rancho Boyeros Industrial Technical School, was in Paris following his win of a top journalism award in Havana, which allowed him to attend an international Paris exhibition of
"Reading the evening papers in my hotel room, I had the idea of trying to interview Charlie Chaplin." Thus, on the birth centennial of the famous British actor, Cuban poet, writer and journalist Angel Augier alluded to the "exceptional experience" of his interview.
participate in the bold journalistic attempt."
