Charlie Chaplin Memorabilia
In 1913 Keystone Comedies were becoming very popular. Among the new comics who joined forces with Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling were Roscoe Arbuckle, a rotund comedian sometimes known as "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mack Swain, Hank Mann, Al St. John, and a young Englishman named Charles Chaplin who had been playing the big-time vaudeville from coast to coast in Alf Reeves' act "Karno's Pantomime Company." Adam Kessel had caught the act and hired Chaplin for $150 a week. In November he appeared in his first film, a one-reeler, "Kid's Auto Races," made on the Keystone lot in Los Angeles. Chaplin's character of the little man with the baggy pants, oversized shoes and cane became famous before he was known by name.
