Photographs: Already a Star With Karno
Chaplin and Billie Reeves on tour in America with the Karno Company (Los Angeles, 1910). Billie Reeves fashioned the role of the drunk in the Karno sketch Mumming Birds - a role which Chaplin later assumed and made famous
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