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his first love pangs. The story has received considerable elaboration — and from Chaplin himself — but the following appear to be the facts. The girl was Hetty Kelly, an actress too, and sister of a colleague of Chaplin's called Sonny Kelly. Later, as Arthur Kelly, he became foreign manager of United Artists and then vice-president.
Chaplin was then nineteen and a dude — but a shy one. At Kennington Gate he would wait with fluttering heart for the adored one to step off the street car. On park benches and in corners of little tea houses he dreamed of a future with her. The affair was hardly more than a boy-and-girl flirtation, for Hetty did not take him too seriously. She made a rich marriage in England while Chaplin was making a fortune in America. Nevertheless it was probably her image that spurred him to win fame and wealth there.
Chaplin was never to forget the enchantment of this first love. Some believe he was always looking for another Hetty in his numerous girl friends. The idealistic and romantic love he usually portrays on the screen had its source in this unrequited episode to which he paid a more direct tribute, some years later, in a song entitled "There's Always Someone You Can't Forget." On his 1921 visit to England, he was stunned when he received word of her death.
With the Karno company, Chaplin also toured the Continent, and appeared in Paris at the Folies-Bergeres. Karno later recalled that Chaplin was a preoccupied and taciturn traveler, staring out of the train windows while his companions played cards. He lived frugally and had an understandable aversion to alcohol, which had brought such tragedy to his family.
Between 1910 and 1913 Chaplin toured the United States extensively in Karno's second company. Its most popular act was "A Night in an English Music Hall."
However, it was not in this skit, as is usually recorded,