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FOOLISH CHAPLINS BIG FISH Avalon Cal October 28 Charlie Chaplin has landed a niarlin swordfish more properly speaking a Japanese spearfish weighing 102 pounds and there was not a moving picture camera within six miles of the spot The movie star had twentytwo minutes of anxiety and he reeled and pumped and sweated like any other angler The fish weighed seven pounds more than the comedian comedianDoubtless Doubtless now that Charlie has accomplished the feat when he gets his second fish before the camera and puts on his cute mustache and the fish stands on its tail and leaps out of the water and Charlie keeps busy in only the way that Charlie can he will make that a film that will permit him to buy Liberty Bonds of the fifth issue doubling his fourth subscription subscriptionChaplin Chaplin brought the ish to the pier where a local photographer took snapshots The mustache does not appear in the picture
