A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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40 BIRTH AND INFANCY When Ford Sterling's contract with Mack Sennett expired in 1914, the famous comic decided to form his own producing unit. In his frantic search for a successor, Sennett finally got on the trail of a young comedian touring in a vaudeville act called A Night at an Englisli Music Hall. Though the young man was loath to leave vaudeville for the precarious field of the movies, he succumbed to Sennett's offer of the unbelievable sum of $150 weekly to join the Keystone Company. His name— Charles Chaplin.