The Champion Clippings 29/37
Sun, New York, August 22, 1915.
Charlie Chaplin‘s Story
His Stage Career and Movie Beginning
By Harry C. Carr
Drawings by E. W. Gale
(...) Photoplay, Aug. 1915
„Shoved on to sing a coster ballad, by name Jack Jones“
Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin, Comedian
of Movies, Had Sad Youth
Remarkable Rise to Fame of Film Character Whose Stork
Step and Falls Amuse Thousands Daily
THERE are three musical shows in town with characters
supposed to represent Charles Chaplin.“ (...)
„There have been strange contrasts in the life of this
handsome, rather melancholy and Oriental looking
young man, who is scarcely recognizable under the grotesque
make-up in which he is known in the world.“ (...)
„It was indeed as a substitute for his mother that the present
Charles Chaplin, then a child of 4, made his first stage
appearance. It is a pathetic evidence of the mutual efforts of the
little family that when the mother was taken ill little
Charles, rather than disappoint the audience, was shoved
on to sing a coster ballad, by name Jack Jones.“ (...)
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