If I live to be 70, I expect to be Shirley Temple's biggest rival.”[2] Sale was born in Huron, South Dakota, and raised in Urbana, Illinois.

[3] He was a son of Frank and Lillie Belle (née Partlow) Sale, and the brother of actress and writer Virginia Sale-Wren.

According to Grace Kingsley in the Jan. 28 edition of the Los Angeles Times, page II11, It now comes to light that Chic Sale, appearing at the Orpheum this week, will as soon as his present tour is finished, about the middle of next month, return to town in the Capacity of a Christie star.

Mr. Sale's first photoplay will be a five-reeler, adapted from Irvin S. Cobb's "The Smart Aleck," after which he will be starred in other well-known stories suitable to his talents.

[4] Because copyright infringement was widespread in Vaudeville, Sale enlisted the aid of newspaper political cartoonist, Roy James, to adapt The Specialist into a book.