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SUCCESS OF “THE CIRCUS” Charlie Chaplin’s “The Circus” is proving so popular that it is being shown at the Grand Theatre for an extended season.
“The Circus” is one of the best and
most amusing of all Chaplin’s pictures, largely because of the fact +hat it is cast in [ he same old mould in which so many of his earlier triumphs were cast. In form and method it is Dlpasantlv fa-
it is pleasantly familiar, because in
it there are many brushfuls of soapsuds, chases, and animal cages. The same general type of excruciatinglv 555?? i^.t' aa V with sag on gag, in Charlie Chaplin dealt in the old days, and which are now edged .and giossed with all the fine sharp shadings, the value of which he knows so well, and in the execution of which he has always been so genuinely the master. The second feature on the programme is West Point, starring Joan Crawford and William Haines,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 352, 12 May 1928, Page 16
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