CHARLIE CHAPLIN AS "THE PILGRIM."

Shannon News, 18 November 1924, Page 3

CHARLIE CHAPLIN AS "THE PILGRIM."

The master humorist's latest picture), "The' Pilgrim"- is due in Shannon on Friday (matinee and evening). Briefly its &tary is. as fallows; Having escaped from prison toy appropriating a minister's garb, Chaplin boards a train and descends at a town where the new minister has failed to arrive. Unwilling tq accept the alternafcime oi"returning to. prison by revealing his true identity, and unable to escape from his escort, he fills the vacant place in the pulpit. His impromptu sermon is a vivid illustration of the story of David and Goliath. A young boy in the audience applauds vigorously, but the rest of the congregation is not sQ favourably impressed. After the sermon, Charlie is escorted to the house Where he is going to live, the home of , the girl and her mother. Visitors come, including the deacon and a crook who happens to be in town and recognises the Pilgrim as a former pal. .The crook tries to rob the deacon. Charlie ioife him twice by amazing i'eats oi legerdemain, but eventually after the family has retired, .the crook outwits the pilgrim, hands him the K. 0., and gets away with the mortgage money to the saloon and gambling house. After many more adventures Charlie reaches" the Mexican border, finds only an incipientii-evolution, and straggles away, straddling the border line with both feet, ready to take ine easiest way at the first indication ol danger from either side.