Karno was initially wary, thinking Chaplin a " pale, puny, sullen-looking youngster " who " looked much too shy to do any good in the theatre.

Chaplin's most successful role with the Karno company was a drunk called the Inebriate Swell, a character recognised by Robinson as " very Chaplinesque ".

Chaplin's second American tour with the Karno company was not particularly successful, as cast members fell sick and audiences failed to grasp the troupe's burlesque humour.

Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker ; Simon Louvish writes that the company was his " training ground ".

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

Frederick John Westcott ( 26 March 1866 – 18 September 1941 ), best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was a theatre impresario of the British music hall.

He married Edith and in 1896 his son, Fred Karno, Jr. was born.

After that he was booked by Fred Karno to appear in The Show and in May joined a touring cabaret revue called XYZ to the end of the year.

He was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, and was a music hall performer before going to the U. S. with Chaplin, both as members of the Fred Karno troupe, in 1910.

To the Arabs, the city was known as Ḳālīḳalā ( which was adopted from the original Armenian name Karno K ' aghak ', or Karin City, to differentiate it between the canton of Karin ( Կարին ).

The following UK album was recorded 1990-1 at Astoria Studios, a houseboat, built in 1911 for and once owned by impresario Fred Karno, now a recording studio owned by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

In 1906, however, he landed a contract with Fred Karno, of Karno's London Comedians and was to fight hard to bring Charlie into the company two years later.

Stan Laurel, one of Roach's comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe.

The film was created from Chaplin's stage work from a play called Mumming Birds ( aka A Night at an English Music Hall in the USA ) with the Karno Company from London.

Chaplin and Laurel arrived on the same boat from England with the Karno troupe and toured the U. S. From 1916 to 1918, he teamed up with Alice Cooke and Baldwin Cooke, who became lifelong friends.

* 1941 – Fred Karno, English comedian and producer ( b. 1866 )

* September 18 – Fred Karno, British music hall comedian ( b. 1866 )

* Fred Karno ( 1866 – 1941 )

Star of the Fred Karno | Karno comedy company, c. 1912

Karno selected his new star to join a fraction of the company that toured North America's vaudeville circuit ; he also signed Chaplin to a new contract, which doubled his pay.

For his film A Night in the Show ( 1915 ), Chaplin directly transferred the Karno sketch Mumming Birds onto the screen.

Former Indonesian presidents Abdurrahman Wahid and Achmed Sukarno were usually called ' Gus Dur ' and ' Bung Karno ', respectively.

They were crying, cheering, screaming "... Long live Bung Karno ..." They clung to the sides of the car, the hood, the running boards.

He hired Joe Van Meter and Albert Austin, whom he had known since his days working for Fred Karno as the burglars.

Indonesians also remember him as Bung Karno or Pak Karno.

Many sporting facilities such as the Senayan sports complex ( including the 100, 000-seat Bung Karno Stadium ) were built to accommodate the games.

Karno is credited with inventing the custard-pie-in-the-face gag.

During the 1890s, in order to circumvent stage censorship, Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue.

As a result of this decline, Karno went bankrupt in 1925.

Three weeks later, Karno married his second wife, his long-time partner, Marie Moore.

Karno died in 1941 from diabetes, aged 75.

On Sunday 30th September 2012 The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America erected and unveiled a commemorative blue plaque to Fred Karno at his former Fun Factory at 38 Southwell Road, Camberwell.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.