East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-13
ENGLAND DIGS INTO
| PAST Of FILM ACTOR
BY EARL c. REEVES
international News Service Staff
Correspondent

SNA- HPNAiNOA4t-y
LONDON, Oct. 13.-Delving into the !
ancient history of the one Charles |
Chaplin, who is by way of being well |
and favorably known to a select hand |
ful of interlectuals throughout the
world, has become almost a cult in
England.
II only remains for some student of
origins to discover Il Bacon in the
Chaplin family closet to make Charles
as famous as the immortal William
whose family seat was up Stratford
way
Diligent students have discovered
that Chaflie really did go to school for
quite a while in one school, in Ken
nington. IT'S that school he came here
TO visit, among other things.
little to Do With Schools
Earlier excavations indicated that 1t
Mr.. Chaplin told the eager press of
America before leaving the United
States that he was gOingito revisit his
childhood school he must have con-
siderable tour in mind. There are la
mentable facts in the biographies of
all truly great men. The Immortal
William had something to do with
breweries, for instance. And it was
pretty definitely proved by London re-
search that the immortal Charles was
noted for what little he had to do with
schools.
That is to say, he had a wide and
Catholic acquaintance with them. But
almost invariably the acquaintance
was fleeting and casual.
In these dim days--in the pre-movie
age-in England, at least, schooling
was not compulsory. There was no
law about going on learning, at a
desk, until you're fourteen, or over
There were no trunant Officers. Other
wise several would have been busy on
Charles trail.
No Regular Hours
He came from an artists family, of
course, and was on the boards him.
self. and constantly moving, at an
early age. But the biographical fact
remains that the young man didn't
banker much after regular hours un-
der schoolmasters
Excepting this school up in Ken
nington. He did stop there quite
while, The research parties are
trifle vague about it, but he was GER
tainly there long enough to get the
headmaster's picture in the papers, II
a scholars cap and flowing mutton
chop whiskers. 2 > tsA@r
On the banks of the Avon they will
prove to you that a whole lot
known about the yImmortal Bard. He
was a somebody even before he start
ed writing pieces for the stage. His
father was at one time Mayor OF STRAIT
ford.
The Chaplin biographers can do bet
ter than that, They have found pho
tographs of Charles Chaplin, pere, IL
q white lawn tie and plug hat, hand
some smiling chap, and by the look
of him so per cent bigger than tn
present generation. Also Spence
Chaplin, grandfather, handsome maj
likewise, with close cropped grey mus
tache.
Church Bells Chime
George Jackley, a comedian, boy
hood chum, and something like tn
immortal in appearance, comes int
the picture, getting his own in tn
papers.
The Daily News, proving definitel
that a Chaplin family existed in Lon
don, prints a fac-simile of a sheet o
music GAS the Church Bells Chime
written by Norton Atkins, sung b.
Charles Chaplin" The elder that is
Charles started, formally, as tn
page boy in the staging Of "Sherlocl
Holmes" at the Lyceum. But on
learned analyst AYERS that he got hi
real training in comedy and invente
his eccentric steps while playing tn
best Feat" ever seen in the history c
J. Ion pantomimes