PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 350, 10 May 1928, Page 14

PRINCE EDWARD

“THE CIRCUS” Charlie Chaplin’s great comedy, “The Circus,” will be shown to-night at the Prince Edward Theatre. In this production Chaplin displays all his characteristics of old—the worn battered bowler hat, the twirling cane’ the huge shoes in which he is forced to shuffle along, and the expressive moustache. In this circus story, Chaplin plays the part of an unfortunate who is out of work and unknowingly becomes the accomplice of a pickpocket He escapes arrest by his ingenuity and obtains work as handy man in a circus where he falls in love with the owner's daughter. A new performer in the person of a handsome young man joins the company. The girl falls in love with him, not knowing of Charlie’s deep affection for her. Charlie’s ability to do almost anything in the troupe results in his being pressed into service when the wire-walker fails to appear for a performance. He is the sensation of the show, although he does not know it. The girl makes this fact known to him and h» demand for big wages is gratified.

Beryl Mercer has decided to accept the role of the mother in “We Americans," which Universal is about to produce at Universal City. This means that she must leave her featured role m “Brass Buttons,” in which she has just opened in New York. It has always been this stage star’s ambition to play a Jewish mother. Others already cast by Edward Sloman are George Sidney, John Boles, Albert Gran Kathlyn Williams, Daisy Belmore, Eddie Phillips, Rosita Maristina. George Lewis and Michael Visaroff.