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In 1910zwhenKarnosetoffonhisyearlyAmericantourz\Oneofthebestpantomime[6] artists ever seen here.\ They had reached Philadelphia when a telegram arrived and he was being offered the chance to replace a star in the Keystone film company. Cinema was born in the same year as Charlie thought people still believed it was a passing fad, and would never replace live shows. He was kept hanging about[7] for several weeksand he used thetime to watch and tolearn. He wasdetermined to master this newmedium.ltoffered him the chance of money andsuccess-anditwould set him free from the unpredictability of live audience. Unfortunately happy life didnt last long. Fathers alcoholism was slowly, but surely destroying his marriage. Finally it ended in divorce, but Hannah was indomitable[2]. Without her, Charlie Chaplin would have become just one more child lost in the poverty of Victorian London. Somehow she not only managed to keep Charlie and his brother Syney clean and warm, clothed and fed but she conjured [3] little treats for them. She would sit at the window watching the passersby and guess attheircharacters from the way they looked and behaved, spinning tales to delight Charlie and Syney. Charlie took in her skills and went on using them all his life. Charlie had always believed, even in the worst times, that had something special locked away inside him. He took his courage and went to see one of the top theatrical agents. With no experience at all, he was being offered the plum part[4] of Billy- the pageboy in a newproductionofSherlockHolmes.SherlockHolmesopenedon July27,1903 at the enormous Pavilion Theatre Charlie seemed to change overnight. It was as if he had found the thing he was meant to do. Itwas, by now, 1908, Charliewas nineteen and hefell in love. Hetty Kelly was only fifteen. But herparents quashed [5] the the romance before it really begun-butthe memory of pretty Hetty stayed with Charlie all his life. In 1910, when Karno set off on hisyearly American tour, Oneof th