CHARLIE CHAPLIN
EARLY DAYS RECALLED. Among Charlie Chaplin’s 50th birthday greeting cards' was one from a London woman who, as a girl, served him with twopenny rashers of bacon and penny mugs of tea in the East End dining rooms next door to the Forester’s music-hall.
VZith the rest of the Karno boys and girls, the youthful Charlie used to rush in between the shows for a hurried high tea.
The girl is now Mrs Richards, and she now owns dining rooms in another part of London.
“Remember him?” she said this week. “How could one forget him? He was full of personality ,even in those days. I never had to give him sauce with his bacon, he supplied all that. Buf I never thought he was going to be as famous, of course. “For us he was one of the theatricals who had to have everything ready for them, because they had to get back for the next performance. If they were flush, they might have two slices of bacon and perhaps an egg, or an extra halfpenny cup of tea. “He wgs always full of fun, young Charlie, and he was our favourite.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1939, Page 5
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195CHARLIE CHAPLIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1939, Page 5
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