Item 8: Alfred A. Knopf. Film of Max Beerbohm (1928)

On a trip from Italy to England, Beerbohm stopped by the London offices in Bedford Square of the New York-based publisher Alfred A. Knopf, who helped to keep alive Beerbohm’s transatlantic fame by issuing his book A Variety of Things in America in September 1928. Knopf took pleasure in filming his authors. Beerbohm played along, performing a rather Charlie Chaplin-like walk outdoors, though dressed with infinitely more care—and at greater expense—than the “Little Tramp” character.

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