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At the beginning of 1914, a young British vaudevillian named Charles Spencer Chaplin joined Mack Sennett’s Keystone Comedy Company to make a series of silent movies.

Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times.

Readers who never saw a Keystone comedy will have a hard time restraining their whoops as Gene Fowler unreels this fantastic slapstick-story of Hollywood success.

He started his own company, called it Keystone Comedy Co.

Bye Bye Birdie ranges farthest, and perhaps most enjoyably, afield when Dancer Rivera crashes a Shriners' dinner and starts a small Keystone Comedy chase, now around the table, now on it, now under it.