Among his guests was Jascha Heifetz, the celebrated violinist. Everybody was clamorous to have Heifetz play the violin. He picked up Chaplin's violin and started to play and he was astounded, as were the rest of the company, to find nothing but insane dissonance issue from the strings. Chaplin smiled, took his fiddle from Heifetz's hands and played a bit of Bach with his left hand. All the strings were on backward.'You see,' said Chaplin, 'I am a being made inside out and upside down. When I turn my back on you in the screen, you are looking at something as expressive as a face. I am back foremost.'New York Times Book Review and Magazine, 12 December 1920