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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 17

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CHARLIE’S GREATEST In "The Circus,” Charlie is at his i best in a> riotous comedy with an tain to live long and be loved. The story is just a simple episode in the life of an engaging tram p. Charlie accidentally wanders into the ring of an unsuccessful circus, and makes the customers laugh. Scenting better business, the proprietor enCharlie Chaplin gages him as a comic property man. He is the hit of the show. The proprietor’s daughter tells him lie is. Then the girl falls in love with the handsome wirewalker, and Charlie, heart-broken, no longer can be funny. Awaking from liis dream of unhappiness, he helps the girl and her lover to elope. The circus moves on to another stand, and Charlie is left, standing in the middle of the deserted lot, just the pathetic, lovable little tramp he was before his brief career as a circus star. His misadventures, while with the show, are diverting. A pickpocket plants his loot on the unconscious Charlie. The police chase him into the mirror maze in a funny house. He runs into a lion’s cage and the bolt falls. In rehearsing for a William Tell act, he bites into a wormy apple. iSuch terrible accidents happen in rapid succession, each one funnier than the last. Finally, he is ordered to substitute for the wire-walker, and while on the wire he is set upon by a pack of escaped monkeys. Florence Vidor has been signed a new contract with Paramount. This star will soon be seen in "Honeymoon Hate.” shortly to be released in ZsTew Zealand. Miss Vidor has just completed another picture titled "’Doomsd-» v.” ■vi'i-tij. Qa »?v p.«= Leading man.-