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Purse-Giver Chaplin...
Under People, TIME. Sept. 7, you inform us that cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin offered a prize of 20 pounds sterling to that porter of London's Borough market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin...
offered a prize of ?20 to that porter of London's Borough Market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head. Cinemactor Chaplin once lived in Southwark, had porters for friends...
Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy use their own names for the characters whom they impersonate in their pictures. Funny man Laurel was understudy to Charlie Chaplin when they both belonged to Fred Carno's London comedy company. When Mack Sennett saw Charlie Chaplin and Chaplin left the company to go into cinema, Laurel considered him "a fool for leaving." In 1917, playing a vaudeville engagement in Los Angeles, Stanley Laurel met Chaplin again, was persuaded to try a movie contract himself...