As I’m sure all Chaplin fans know, he was ‘discovered’ and nurtured in his early years (1908-1910) by Music Hall Impressario Fred Karno who was already Syd Chaplin’s employer. It was whilst on tour with Karno in America that Chaplin was recruited by Mack Sennett and the rest is history. Chaplin gave Karno a lot of credit for his style of comedy, being a master of visual and slapstick humour. You may be interested to know that a new musical based on the life of Fred Karno is to be performed in Birmingham, England in October 2010. Entitled Khaotic – The Fred Karno Story, it recounts the seventy or so years of Karno’s life including his relationship with Chaplin and also Stan Laurel, another Karno discovery. For more information you can log on to www.khaotic.com or www.from-the-top.co.uk, these websites are currently under construction so it may take a little while for information to be available. I’ll certainly be there!!

hi folks jus let u know bdack in 1983 when we were jus kids and old women named miss booth showed a photo of chaplin@friend taken in thee 20s,she lived at 3 raglan road cape hill birmingham,i remember clearly we always were always shoed photos of chaplin wuth miss booth,so any one who has dat photo or knows of booth family do get in tuch or send a messuj spread the word plees would be great to hava copy,godbless chaplin and miss booth

Charlie Chaplin is a name a lot of people know. He was an actor. He was funny,wise,caring,kind and so much more. I always wonder what the world would be like without him. Maybe th world would be dreary… hateful…who knows? He’s my insperation. I would love to go back in time and meet him. I would take a picture and forever keep it with me and say"I got to meet the person i look up to.“ But, sadly theres no way i can go back in time.