CHARLIE CHAPLIN DRAWS BIG CROWDS TO GRAND THEATRE.
In an atmosphere of roaring lions, bullying ring-masters, tight-rope walkers. and the, general bustle and scramble it an up-to-date circus, Charlie Chaplin is in his clement as an anything-but-handy handy man in “ The Circus,” showing at the Grand Theatre this week. Once again the hapjess lover. Charlie, in this storj' written and directed by himself, reaches the zenith of his power to create laughs and keep them going. Whilst one sympathises with him in his misfortunes, one must laugh at his comicalities. In “ The Gold Rush,” Charlie Chaplin showed what he could do in the way ol dramatic acting, but in no other picture in which he has taken the leading role, has he scored such a success as in ‘The Circus.” During the screening the Grand Quality Orchestra plays an appropriate programme of music.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 7
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