The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-25
ENGLAND DIGS
 INTO PAST OF
 CHAS. CHAPLIN
By International News Service,

tBy International News SeTvice) LONDON, Oct 25.-Delving into the ancient history of one Charles Chap lin. who is by way of being well and i fayorably known to a select handful of intellectuals throughout the world, has become almost cult" in Eng land.
 It only remains for some student of origins to discover a Bacon in the i Chaplin family closet to make Charles as famous as the immortal William, whose family seat was up Stratford way.
 Diligent students have discovered that Charlie really did 80 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 if Mir. Chaplin told the eager press of America before leaving the Uutod States that he was going to revisit his childhood school he must have q con siderable tour in mind. There are la mentablc facts in the biographies of all truly great men. The Immortal | William had something to do with brcweries, 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 1 Catholic acquaintance with them. But almost invariably the acquaintance was fleetinG anl casual.
 In these dim days-in the premovie aCe-in England, at least, schooling was not compulsory There was no law about going on learning. at a desk until you're fourteen, or so. There were no truant officers. Other wise several would have been busy on ! Charlle's trail.
 NO REGULAR F1OONo
 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 aft CT regular hours under schoolmasters.
 Excepting this school up in Ken nington. He did stop there quite a while The research parties are a trifle vague about it, but he was cer' tainly there long enough to get the headmaster's picture in the papers, in a scholars cap and flowing mutton chop whiskers.
 On the banks of the Avon they will prove to you that a whole lot Is known about the Immortal Bard. He was a somebody even before he start ed writing pieces for the stage. His father was at one time mayor of Strat ford
 The Chaplin biographers can do bet ter than that They have found pho tographs of Charles Chaplin, pere, ir a white lawn tie and plug hat, hand some smiling chap, and by the looks of him 50 per cent bigger than the present generation. Also Spencer Chaplin, grandfather, handsome mar likewise. with close cropped grey mus tache.
 CHURCH BELLS CHIME
 George Jackley, a comedian, boy hood chum. and something like the immortal in appearance, comes into the picture, getting his own in the papers.
 The Daily News. proving definitely that a Chaplin family existed in Lon don. prints facsimile of sheet o music. "'As the Church Bells Chime written by Norton Atkins, sung by Charles Chaplin" The elder, that is |. Charles started. formally. as tho page boy in the staging of "Sherlocl Holmes" at the Lyceum. But one learned analyst ayers that he got his real training in comedy and invented his eccentric steps while playing the best "cat" ever seen in the history o London DantOmimes.