ENTERTAINMENTS.
CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. “THE KID.” Tn “The Kid,” which is to ne screened this evening, Charlie Chaplin, the comedian, has never been so mirth-provoking, in any previous production, and the story which is' unfolded contains more real heart throbs than many a picture that has built up reputations for emptional actresses. Charlie is 'himself, but he has injected himself ipto a story of heart interest that has seldom been equalled. The synopsis of it spunds rather trite, for it starts with the abandonment of her baby by the woman who has been wronged. Charlie finds the baby and raises him to boyhood. The typical Chaplinesque methods of raising the Kid are responsible for a good part of the humour with which the piece abounds, while his pitiable whimsical procedure to gain the child’s love damps many an eye. The dramatic climax of the film comes with Chaplin’s losing fight, and the Kid’s despair when the law separates them, but this is followed soiclostely by a bit pfl comedy which, perhaps', is the best pf the piece,, in which Charlie rescues him after a chase over' roof-tops, that peopie will laugh the lumps right out of their throats.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4491, 13 November 1922, Page 2
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199ENTERTAINMENTS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4491, 13 November 1922, Page 2
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