books.google.co.uk - At the age of ten, Charley Chase was singing and dancing on the street corners of Baltimore. Charley eventually became a local vaudeville attraction, but Baltimore could not contain the ambitious young man. After a brief, but memorable, stint in New York, Chase finally landed in Los Angeles in 1912....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Smile_when_the_raindrops_fall.html?id=S45ZAAAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSmile when the raindrops fall