NEW PRINCESS THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12458, 28 May 1926, Page 4

NEW PRINCESS THEATRE

“THE GOLD RUSH.’* “Tho Gold Rush,” which was such a wonderful success at tho Do Luxe and later at tho King’s Theatres in ths early part of the year, opens again today at the New Princess Theatre. “Tho Gold Rush” is announced as a comedy drama with a story of laughter and tears and of. hope deferred. It is a rugged story, with the spectacle of a valiant weakling in search of gold in the biting blizzards of the north. “The Gold Rush,” a United Artists’ Corporation release, brings Charlie Chaplin to the topmost peak of his dazzling career. His work in this picture will place him secure as tho greatest pantomimist of all recorded time. This comedy-drama-traged.v of the Alaska of bygone days is called Chaplin’s greatest picture for two reasons. It is said to represent his intellectual and artistic growth fresh from his dramatic triumph, “A Woman of Paris,” and, secondly, it runs the entire gamut of human "emotions; the blended panorama of life, tae subtle and vital essence of it, the defeat and the victory and growth of a soul in struggle. And through .-.11 the picture Charlie has not forgotten the children. There is ,a tenderness in tho little comedian for the children of the nations. Thev were his first admirers and well h’e knows it. It, was their response that led him on to fame and fortune. And alwnvs, in the making of comedy, he considers them. There wiiT he shown tho third instalment of the serial, which is so popular, and orchestral items will ho rendered at night.