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CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S OWN STORY
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Contents
CHAPTER I
In which I relate my experiences up to the age of five; and describe the occasion of my first public appearance on any stage.
CHAPTER II
In which I make my first public appearance on the stage and my first success; and meet the red-faced man.
CHAPTER III
In which I join the clog dancers; fail to get the cream tarts; and incur the wrath of Mr. Hawkins.
CHAPTER IV
In which I feel very small and desolate; encounter once more the terrible wrath of Mr. Hawkins; and flee from it into the unknown perils of a great and fearful world.
CHAPTER V
In which I have an adventure with a cow; become a lawless filcher of brandysnaps; and confound an honest farmer.
CHAPTER VI
In which I come home again; accustom myself to going to bed hungry; and have an unexpected encounter with my father.
CHAPTER VII
In which I see my father for the last time; learn that real tragedy is silent; and go out into the world to make my own way.
CHAPTER VIII
In which I take lodgings in a barrel and find that I have invaded a home; learn something about crime; and forget that I was to share in nefarious profits.
CHAPTER IX
In which I trick a Covent Garden coster; get glorious news from Sidney; and make another sad trip to the hospital.
CHAPTER X
In which Sidney comes home to find father dead, mother too ill to recognize him and me half starved and in rags.
CHAPTER XI
In which I vainly make the rounds of the theatrical agents; almost go to sea; and at last get the chance for which I have long been yearning.
CHAPTER XII
In which I rehearse the part of the boy hero of the thrilling melodrama, From Rags to Riches; and start off on a tour of the provinces.
CHAPTER XIII
In which I encounter the difficulties of a make-up box; make my first appearance in drama; and learn the emptiness of success with no one to share it.
CHAPTER XIV
In which I taste the flavor of success; get unexpected word from my mother; and face new responsibilities.
CHAPTER XV
In which I understand why other people fall; burn my bridges behind me; and receive a momentous telegram.
CHAPTER XVI
In which I journey to London; meet and speak with a wax-works figure; and make my first appearance in a great theater.
CHAPTER XVII
In which I play with a celebrated actor; dare to look at the royal box; pay a penalty for my awful crime; gain favor with the public; and receive a summons from another famous star.
CHAPTER XVIII
In which I refuse an offer to play in the provinces; make my final appearance as Billy at the Duke of York's Theater; and suffer a bitter disappointment.
CHAPTER XIX
In which my fondest hopes are shattered by cold reality ; I learn the part played by luck on the Strand; and receive an unexpected appeal for help.
CHAPTER XX
In which I try to drown my troubles in liquor and find them worse than before; try to make a living by hard work and meet small success; and find myself at last in a hospital bed, saying a surprising thing.
CHAPTER XXI
In which I encounter the inexorable rules of a London hospital, causing much consternation; fight a battle with pride; and unexpectedly enter an upsetting situation.
CHAPTER XXII
In which I attempt to be serious and am funny instead; seize the opportunity to get a raise in pay ; and again consider coming to America.
CHAPTER XXIII
In which I startle a promoter; dream a great triumph in the land of skyscrapers and buffalo; and wait long for a message.
CHAPTER XXIV
In which I discover many strange things in that strange land, America; visit San Francisco for the first time; and meet an astounding reception in the offices of a cinematograph company.
CHAPTER XXV
In which I find that the incredible has happened; burn my bridges behind me and penetrate for the first time the mysterious regions behind the moving-picture film.
CHAPTER XXVI
In which I see a near-tragedy which is a comedy on the films; meet my fellow actors, the red and blue rats; and prepare to fall through a trap-door with a pie.
CHAPTER XXVII
In which, much against my will, I eat three cherry pies; see myself for the first time on a moving-picture screen and discover that I am a hopeless failure on the films.
CHAPTER XXVIII
In which I introduce an innovation in motion-picture production; appropriate an amusing mustache; and wager eighty dollars on three hours' work.
CHAPTER XXIX
In which I taste success in the movies; develop a new aim in life; and form an ambitious project.
CHAPTER XXX
In which I see myself as others see me; learn many surprising things about myself from divers sources; and see a bright future ahead.
CHAPTER XXXI
In which the moving-picture work palls on me; I make other plans, am persuaded to abandon them and am brought to the brink of a deal in high finance.
CHAPTER XXXII
In which I see success in my grasp; proudly consider the heights to which I have climbed; and receive an unexpected shock.
CHAPTER XXXIII
In which I realize my wildest dreams of fortune; ponder on the comedy tricks of life and conclude without reaching any conclusion.
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