AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

r , . sf ’. >• *;• *\S:. \ , V C V tiF THE CIRCUS.” ... ' > ’ *> .••• * “Acrobatic cameras’' and trapeze microphone .booms were devised by DL m&dr Alfred Santell fur aerial gymshot® in “Polly of the Circus,” Marian Davies’ new starring vehicle, will opens to-night at the Princess Theatre. ’/ ; 1 To photograph and record?, the spec- . tacular action and dialogue, taking place ninety feet above . the ground oil flying trapezes, ' Santell mounted cameras on is winging, platforms i than acrobatic equipment, ,itred. .by the, daredevil'; performers, jviicrophones were attached to the' trapeze bars!’’ ’ ■' A 'complete circus'* l was '.erected at 1 the Studio grounds for the exciting, scenes, the largest expanse of canvas on the Pacific Coast being obtained by A 1 Copeland, veteran circus man,* for ; the “big top.” A troupe of a hundred, veteran , circus clowns, jugglers, tumblers other performers were engaged for the show. The Condona Brothers, world-famous aerialists, executed- their sensational triple-loop acrobatics in mid-air. It wa s with this act that Miss Davies appear.l ed m the opening andfclosing sequences of the picture, Quinni' (Big Boy), Williams and Clhrk Marshall impersonating thov-ndted gymnasts in the actifig sequences; -.Clarke "jGabje" plays opposite Missi Davies' as the modern* minister who falls in' love with "the hoydenish circus performer when she is .brought to hjs . Jhome . following ,a trapeze! accident. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton, David Larfdau, .Ruth Selwyn, Maude Eburne, Little BilV; . Ray Milled. and Eilliaa Elliot. Also; showing; ajyHarry Lauder singing, snort.,r*. •' d''