"SALLY OF THE SAWDUST."

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18626, 26 February 1926, Page 17

"SALLY OF THE SAWDUST."

GRIFFITH'S MASTERPIECE -TO-DAY. For evcrybotl}', from the irrepressible schoolboy up to the most sedate adult, the circus, with ite cosmopolitan troupe, its garish noises, and its enticing odour of sawdust, has a most remarkable fascination. It is easily explained. All of lis love that which is unusual, colourful, find daring, and the circus ia the epitomo of all these attributes, so that, when a producer goes to the great white, twits to msske a picture he knows tho public will follow him in a body, This is what D. W. Griffith has done- in the most magnificent effort of his career, "Sally of the Sawdust," to bo presented at the Liberty Theatre to-day. It is a vastly exciting, lavish, and entertaining play to suit all tastes, a. play that appeals as much to the erudite scholar as to the thrill-seek-ing junior, and bearing as it does that hallmark of perfection, the name of D. W. Griffith, all picture-goers know that it cannot possibly be anything else than it is claimed to bfc—"the greatest show on earth." It is the story of, two characters. as diametrically opposed as are the Poles apart, Sally herself and her engaging guardian. The adventures of these two constitute th« theme of the, picture. There is a wealth of tiie most exhilarating comedy, mainly by_ V". C. Fields, cne, of tho foremost comedians of America, and Carol Dempster, as Sally, runs tho whoio gamut cf "emotions, from unadorned comedy fo that which borders perilously near tragedy. As "Sally of the Circus" is ono of tho most lavish' productions seen in Christehurch fc-r some t:rne, record attendances are anticinatcd, and intending patrons are advised to book their rcafs at The Bristol Piano Co., where the box plans are now on view.