The first morning on the train, Mr. Flinn told me, the star gave Lena a five dollar bill to pay for her breakfast. Lena came back triumphantly with the breakfast, but no change. When asked what had happened to the three dollars and forty-five cents change, the maid replied with great pride that she had given it to the waiter as a tip. An amusing sequel to this story happened in the hotel at Los Angeles at the time of Miss Negri’s arrival. As she was busy with photographers and newspaper interviewers, Lena attended to the placing of the trunks. When Pola reached her suite and smiled on the assembled porters, she was greeted with frowns. “Did you teep them?” she inquired of Lena, having learned enough about America by this time to interpret the bad humour of the porters correctly. Lena nodded emphatically. “What you geev them?” inquired her mistress. “The piece with the cow on,” replied Lena. Hastily consulting her chart Pola discovered to her chagrin that the maid had given the porters each a Buffalo nickel. It took but a moment to change the frowns to smiles with a different kind of gratuity. Miss Negri was anxious to come to America, because it seemed to her, like to every other foreigner, to be the Land of Promise. Also, America was the place where she would again see Charlie Chaplin. Her first meeting with Chaplin has always interested me. It happened during Charlie’s last European trip, over a year ago. He had arrived in Germany one afternoon, and at dinner time had gone to the Palais Heinroth to dine. No one recognised him at first, until Al Kaufman, an American film executive came in with a large party given in honour of Pola Negri. Chaplin was invited to join them, introduced to Pola, and given a seat by her side. He could speak no German, she no English. In spite of this difficulty it was plain to see that a mutual admiration sprang up between them. That night they met again at a friend’s. Mr. Blumenthal, knowing he was to take Miss Negri to America, arranged to have photographers take pictures of Charlie and Pola. This created a sensation in the hotel, where the pictures were taken. A large crowd gathered to watch the farewell outside the hotel, for Charlie was leaving the city that day. As “Good-byes” were being said, Mr. Blumenthal said to Pola, “Give Charlie a kiss.” And Pola did, while the cameras clicked, and a dozen or more impressions were made. “Good-bye until we meet in Los Angeles,” she said. The following week this incident was featured in a London paper as “Chaplin’s welcome in Germany.” It was apparent in the ensuing days that the impression Charlie made on her was not a fleeting one. Her mind was already set on seeing him again. It was plain that she thought of him always, and part of her eagerness to reach America was due to this interest. Therefore, it is not at all unusual that this interest should develop into a beautiful romance when she met him again in California.