Photoplay Magazine correspondent Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. traveled far afield to Yerovila Jail in Poona in order to ask the incarcerated Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) a question of an entirely trivial nature:


“What is your favorite American movie?”


(Movie star Charlie Chaplin is pictured above)


Read an anti-Gandhi article from 1921…

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