CAPITOL
“THE CIRCUS”
Charlie Chaplin is now at the Capitol Theatre. This time his picture, entitled “The Circus.” shows him in among the clowns, animals and trapeze of a genuine circus. “The Circus” is one of the best and most amusing of all Chaplin’s pictures, largely because of the fact that it is cast in the same old mould in which so many of his earlier triumphs were cast. In form and method it is pleasantly familiar, because in it there are many brushfuls of soapsuds, chases, and animal cages. The same general type of excruciatingly funny situations, with gag on gag, in which Charlie Chaplin dealt in the eld days, and which are now edged and glossed 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. Thomas Meighan is the star in the second feature, “The City Gone Wild.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 371, 4 June 1928, Page 14
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