NOTES AND REFERENCES
- Lyons , Timothy J. 1979 . Charles Chaplin: A Guide to References and Resources Boston and London
- Chaplin , Charles . 1964 . My Autiobiography 9 – 9 . London and New York Sobel, Raoul & Francis, David (1977) Chaplin: Genesis of a Clown (London), p. 66, describe Hannah's husband as ‘a Jewish bookmaker named Hawkes’. While Charlie's autobiography is not wholly satisfying in its exactness and verifiable detail, some improvement is found in his later (1974) My Life in Pictures (London), which contains excerpts from the 1964 autobiography with some significant additions.
- McCabe , John . 1978 . Chaplin 4 – 4 . New York
- Sobel and Francis . 1977 . Chaplin: Genesis of a Clown 66 – 66 . London The authors also note that Hannah appeared under her stage name, Lily Harley, on 27 May 1886, at the South London Palace. A poster for Hatcham Liberal Club, Portland House, New Cross, dated 8 February 1886, is reproduced in My Life in Pictures, p. 43, listing Miss Lily Chaplin, ‘Serio and Dancer’.
- Information supplied from the birth certificate discovered by Alan Neate of the Greater London Records Office and supplied to researcher David Clegg. Mr Clegg wrote, ‘… from the fact … that Camden Street, now Morcambe Street is off East Street, which is popularly known as ‘East Lane’, we agree that this person must be Chaplin's mother.’ Letter to Timothy J. Lyons, March 1980 2
- Letter from the author, January 1979
- Letter from the author, June 1980 23
- Letter from the Department of the Interior and Immigration to the author, July 1980 27
- The date is confirmed by the Central Department Public Library in Dublin. Shamus O'Brien was a comedy-drama in four acts, written by F. Maeder and C. Vernon, adapted from the poem of the same title by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Furthermore, the 1882 date is improbable in that Charles Sr's career as an entertainer, according to Sobel Francis Chaplin: Genesis of a Clown London 1977 66 66 began in 1885, although the earliest listing I have found is in The Era (21 September 1889).
- Sobel and Francis cite 1892 as the year in which both Guy and Wheeler Dryden were born ‘as a result of a liaison between Hannah and Wheeler [sic] Dryden,’ op. cit., p. 66. No further discussion of either ‘son’ is found in this source. Von Ulm Gerith Charlie Chaplin: King of Tragedy Caldwell, Idaho ‘based chiefly on information and documents belonging to Toraichi Kono, Chaplin's secretary,’ may be the source for this story, which is repeated in Huff, Theodore (1951) Charlie Chaplin (New York and London), pp. 10–11; Manvell, Roger (1974) Chaplin (New York), pp. 39–40; and McCabe, op. cit., p. 4. Chaplin mentions neither Guy nor Wheeler in his 1974 autobiography. However, in his My Life in Pictures, pp. 290–91, Chaplin writes: ‘One of my assistant directors [on Monsieur Verdoux] was Wheeler Dryden—who was in fact my half-brother. His father, a well-known singer called Leo Dryden, had seduced by mother and after their son was born had taken him away to live in Canada.’
- It was during this period, according to Charlie, that he stood in for his mother by offering a rendition of ‘Jack Jones’ at the Canteen, Aldershot, when Hannah's voice failed; see My Autobiography 18 19 Sobel and Francis, op. cit., p. 66. The story is charming enough to be repeated in Huff, p. 11; Manvell, pp. 42–43; and McCabe, p. 5.
- About this time, according to Sobel Francis Chaplin: Genesis of a Clown London 1977 66 66 Charles Sr. had a 29 May 1896 performance singing descriptive songs at the Paragon; on 12 December, he performed at Oxford Music Hall, London.
- Sobel and Francis cite 18 June 1896 as the date when Charlie was admitted to Cuckoo Schools at Hanwell, a picture from which appears in this source, p. 64, and in My Life in Pictures 46 47 Charlie mentions this school in his (1964) autobiography, pp. 27–32, 72, 87.
- Sobel and Francis . 66 – 66 . list this date as January 1903.
- Sobel and Francis . 1898 . January : 66 – 66 . cite the date as 18 when Charlie was released from the Cuckoo Schools of Hanwell see note [16].
- Sobel and Francis . 66 – 66 . cite the Summer of 1896 as when the group was formed as the Lancashire Lads, adding ‘Eight’ to the group's name in the Summer of 1898, with Charlie joining them on 12 December 1898. Other unverified citations from this period include Charlie's appearance in Giddy Ostend (London Hippodrome, January 1900); in From Rags to Riches; and in the role of a cat in Cinderella (London Hippodrome, 28 December 1900–13 April 1901).
- Chaplin . 1964 . My Autiobiography 55 – 55 . London and New York Charles Sr. indeed had a brother named Albert, who was four years younger (born 23 September 1868). Albert was a farmer in the Eastern Cape of South Africa (and not, as Charlie says, in the Transvaal).
- See note [22] above. Sobel Francis 66 66 also cite Charlie's attendance at Hern Boys College, beginning in 1900 and lasting through May 1903.
- Huff . Charlie Chaplin 12 – 13 . New York and London
- Leverton , Garrett H. 1940 . The Great Diamond Robbery & Other Recent Melodramas Princeton
- Sobel and Francis . 66 – 66 . cite the 6 instead of the 16 of July.
- Sobel and Francis . 67 – 67 . mention that Sydney joined Charlie in this play at the Theatre Royal, Dewsbury, sometime around Christmas 1903. This source includes a reproduction of a programme from 16 May 1904, Theater Royal, Bradford, in which Sydney is listed among the cast; however, on the programme his name is spelled ‘Sidney.’
- Frohman , Charles . 1860–1915 . a well-known figure in the American theatre, leased the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 1897. He was lost at sea during the sinking of the Lusitania.
- The stage set depicted a back street housing, with each child performing his own speciality. Charlie's was an impersonation of ‘Dr.’ Walford Bodie, a gentleman who toured the halls performing feats of magic with complicated electrical devices (d. 19 October 1939, aged 68 years). Charlie describes his creation of this role in Charlie Chaplin's Own Story Indianapolis 1916 170 176 referring to ‘Doctor Body’ as ‘a patent-medicine faker.’ Only one copy of this ‘autobiography’ has been located, in the collection of the U.S. Library of Congress, the book having been withdrawn from the market shortly after its publication, at Chaplin's behest. The authorship of the book is generally attributed to Rose Wilder Lane. See Lyons, op. cit., p. 202.
- Additional programmes and posters are reproduced in My Life in Pictures 59 59 Empire Theatre, Oldham, 3 May 1909, announcing ‘Fred Karno's Colossal Production, entitled The Football Match, The Cup Tie Final, Written by Fred Karno and Fred Kitchen … characters by Charles Chaplin, Will Poluski, Jr.,’ etc., in three scenes; p. 66, Majestic Theatre, Butte, Montana, 18 April 1911, announcing ‘A Night in an English Music Hall’; pp. 74–75, Empress Theatre, San Francisco, week of 5 November [1911], the posters showing Chaplin as the star performer.
- September 1910 . The Evening Dispatch September , 6 contains the following notice: ‘At the Empire last night the entertainment provided was one of the best all-around seen for some time containing not one poor or uninteresting turn from start to finish. The humourous sketch “Skating” by Fred Karno's company of comedians pays a welcome return visit, and roars of laughter was [sic] ample evidence of the fact that its popularity has not diminished. Lupino Lane, that Eccentric Dancer, delighted last evening's audience, with his quaint songs and bewildering antics.’ A biography of Lupino Lane by James Dillon White (1957) tells how Lane and Chaplin played draughts together when in Birmingham.