CHAPLIN, CHARLES SPENCER

(1888), comedian, was born near London and is mainly self-educated. He first became connected with the stage at the age of seven, being employed in London music halls. He attracted a certain amount of favorable notice in A Night in an English Music Hail, and came to the United States with this play, performing the leading role himself. He made his first appearance on the screen in 1914 with the Keystone Film Company, and has since made contracts with other leading film companies. In 1917 he signed a contract with the First National Exhibitors’ Circuit to make two eight reel pictures for $1,000,000, and has since starred in productions of his own creation, having his own motion picture plant at Hollywood, California.