COMEDIANS ENTER VIA THE CIRCUS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

COMEDIANS ENTER VIA THE CIRCUS

TRIO OF CELEBRITIES GOOD TRAINING SCHOOL Wallace Beery, Chester Conklin and Ford Sterling, are Dtree screen comedians xclio broke in by tvay of the circus. There is nothing to equal the circus educating a young entertainer in show life, and the bedrock facts of what an audience wants, « - Beery -ay-^ p h ant*s, **a'f ter * running ‘away from Kansas Broom of the lars in cash. The rest was ntil sure his remaining with the circus umn the end of the season. the e ] e _ Beery did not sta> vitl phants. Jtie became a performer on th

rings and left to enter Henry W. Savage’s musical show, “The Prince o 1

Pilsen.” He is co-starring now with Raymond Hatton in “Now We’re in the Air.” Chester Conklin made a similar start, minus the elephants. He ran away from home in Oskaloosa, lowa, became a clown with the A 1 G. Barnes circus, and then jumped to Sennet comedies. In his latest picture he goes back to the old atmosphere, for “The Side Show” is a story of circus life. w.ioatc. Sterling followed the John Robinson circus out of his home town, La Crosse, AVis. He was featured after a while as Keno. the boy clown. After that he tried “Uncle Tom's Cabin” and “East Lynne” companies, later joining a Show boat troop and playing up and down the Mississippi Valley.