OPERA HOUSE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10711, 8 October 1928, Page 6

OPERA HOUSE

“THE CIRCUS.”,

One of tho greatest comedies. the screen has seen opens to-night at the Opera House.’ This picture, is “The Circus,” about which has' b€en written: “Chaplin is at his best in a riotous comedy with an undercurrent of pathos. It is certain to live long and be loved.” The story is just a simple episode in tho life of an engaging tramp. Charlie accidentally wanders into the ring of an unsuccessful circus, and makes the. patrons laugh. Scenting better business, the proprietor engages him as a comic propel ty man. He is the “hit” of the show; then the girl falls in love with the wire-walker, and Charlie, heartbroken, no longer can be funny. Awaking from his dream of unhappiness, he helps the girl and her lover to elope. The circus moves on to another stand, and Charlie is left, standing in the middle of the deserted lot, just the pathetic little tramp he was before his brief career as a circus star. His misadventures while with the show are diverting. A jiickpoeket plants lii-s loot on the unconscious Charlie. The police chase him into the mirror maze in a funny house. He runs into a lion’s cage and the bolt falls. Such accidents happen in rapid succession,' each one funnier than the last. Finally, he is ordered to substitute for the wire-walker, and while on the wire he is set upon by a pack of escaped monkeys. Merna Kennedy plays the girl.