Charlie Chaplin in Hawaii (1917)

Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Robert Wagner

HONOLULU – The famous Charlie Chaplin arrived in Honolulu October 10, and while he intended to come for a rest between custard pie throwing contests, he was kept extremely busy sightseeing. Photographers camped on his trail and snapped him riding the surfboards on the beach at Waikiki, eating two-fingered poi, dancing with the hula girls and even flirting with Pele, the Goddess of Fire, on the edge of the volcano at Kilauea.

It is expected that as soon as his contracts permit he will bring over a company and be filmed with an Hawaiian setting which will be unique. He was accompanied by Robert Wagner, the well-known writer and they returned to the mainland October 17, tired, but happy…

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