BATTLE OF JUTLAND “THE KID.”

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1921, Page 3

BATTLE OF JUTLAND

“THE KID.”

7-YKARS-OLD IMP IN A CHAPLIN FILM. NEW YORK, Afarch 1. After a year’s absence Charlie Chaplin has returned to the screen. He is a new Chaplin, a greater artist than ever with a new gift of genuine pathos crafted on to his old laughter-making

genius. llis new picture is called “flic Ka So many people want to see it that the Strand Theatre, which is showing it, is opening its doors at hall-past ton lithe morning and starts the last showing of the film at lmlf-past eleven at night. The storv of “The Kid” opens with a girl leaving a hospital with her baby. Too poor to support it, she -leaves it in a, luxurious motor-car standing empty outside a large mansion. But the car is stolen by a pair of hooligans, who discovering the infant, deposit it by a dustbin in a mean street T 'ere Charlie Clmplin finds it, and after a dozen unsuccessful "'"1 hldi( ' roUS nt " tempts to dispose of it, be adopts it and takes it to his garret. Five years pass and the small boy a,ul bis guardian are hunting their daily bread together. Their adventure's, comic and pathetic, comprise the remainder of 'tlio film, until c nin« loads the waif’s mother, now a famous prima donna, to her child, and a happy reunion ends the story. Chaplin has retained his old trousers the hat, the cane, and the rest of his traditional get-up. He has a ties . asset, of value in the person of a small boy, Jack Coogan, who plays the “Kid.” This extraordinary boy is the very personification of an imp of mis chief, is devoid of self-consciousness, and enters thoroughly into the spirit ol his famous partner’s fun. Though “The Kid” has been released here. I am informed that English kin emu goers will have to wait seveinl months to see it.