"THE GOLD RUSH."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18550, 27 November 1925, Page 7

"THE GOLD RUSH."

NEXT FRIDAY AT LIBERTY THEATRE. Charlie Chaplin as a pathetic" tenderfoot along with hundreds of others in search of gold in the Klondike, plua the Charlie Chaplin of comedy face, -with all the ' Chaplin tricks of old—this is the keynote of j what has been described a 9 the greatest ' Chaplin comedy ever filmed—"The Gold ! Rush," which is announced as the feature ' Theatre° n nCXt Frit * a y at tho liberty | Poetic pathos and whimsical comedy j blended clerverlv m "The Goid Kush, I'u WiS va<>Te than a year in the making, ! i- l .^ c shown in cine reels, and j which has in it all the elements of "big , production" which have been lacking in the ! earlier and short films of this laugh pro- i Qucing genius of th? screen. | ciT' 1 " 6 ' s " le fcslle . instance, where ( hapxia, the tenderfoot, a lone bit of j human flotra.m and jetsam, finds a stdi- ' pathiser and a sweetheart—a girl in a dance- ! hail. In her garish finery she dances with ' the sad, little tramp, who beams over her shoulder into the eyes of his rival, a weallfiv , miner. ' ; There is Big Jim McKay, a giant with os-like strength. He is enraged and the uttle Lone Prospector trembles as the big uian menaces him. And the. little man t .inks that death, after all, is better than j the loss of the queen df the dance-hall. ■ To have the right types in Truckee, in j Northern California, where many of the ! scenes of the picture were photographed, j Chaplin took a- special trainload of trampe, with well-seared face.% and tattered garb. | In several sequences it seems an endless : H n, r. humanity that is crossing the Ghiikool Pass. A blizzard rages, and men are blown about helplessly and hopelessly. ' They fiehl f n doggedly, as this winding path ; cut through the snows over a precipitous . mountainside, is the gateway to their goal— : te Klondike, and gold. In another stretch in the film is Black Larsen, a fugitive. He builds a little hut in the Alaskan mountains, and there lives as a hermit, amid snow and ice. To the hut comes the pathetic little tramp—Chaplin. Ho knocks at the door for rest and a bite j of fcod. ere plodding on to the land of promised cold. Larsen does not care who ; starves. Hi 3 only thought is of the police. ! The scenes aboard a steamship show i human interest at its big height. The , luxury and oomforfc of the first cabin are j contrasted with the misery, want, and ill- ; ness in tho steerage. There is the little i man, who a few years before went on tho j long hike to tho Klondike, and now on . the shin is seen in rich raiment and ' costly furs. He is -unhappy because he has lest his sweetheart. And in the Bteerage— j there is a girl returnintr from Alaska, j dreaming of, and wishing she could find her j de*r little tramp again. j For the season at the Liberty Theatre the j box plans open on Tuesday next, at The Bristol. No telephone bookings will be accented. for-the Saturday sessions, and there, will be three screenings on that day—ll a.m., 2.15, and 7 p.m.