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Charles 'Chic' Sale
Acting
25 Aug 1885
† 07 Nov 1936
Huron, South Dakota, USA
Biography
Charles 'Chic' Sale was primarily a stage comedian, who, although he infrequently appeared on Broadway from 1902-30 and appeared in a handful of silent films, spent the majority of his career treading the boards of vaudeville as a comedian, usually in the persona of 'Lem Putt', a carpenter from Urbana, Illinois who specialized in the building of outhouses. By age 49 his stage act had become so popular that he felt compelled to write, with the help of two newspaper writers, a 3000-word collectio...
Also Known As
Charles Partlow Sale, Charles Sale, Chas. 'Chic' Sale, Chick Sale, Chic Sale

















