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Motion Picture News, New York, November 4, 1927.

The Circus Set

& CHAPLIN HELD UP BY STUDENTS

      Comedian and Company Idle Away Hours Before

      Officers, Scouting for Missing Circus Wagons, Find Them

      Awaiting Campus Bonfire

      Charlie Chaplin and a company of about fifty people were

held up yesterday in Glendale but not by bandits.

      Work on the comedian‘s new picture, „The Circus,“ was

stopped because of the absence of two circus wagons,

which were needed for the scenes and which had disappeared

mysteriously during the previous night.

      The actors sat around patiently waiting at Charlie‘s expense

while deputy sheriffs and police searched for the missing

props. These finally were located on the campus of the University

of California at Los Angeles, where students apparently

had taken them for fuel for their annual bonfire, as they were

alongside of a huge pile of kindling wood gathered

in preparation for last night‘s Occidental game pajamarino.

Chaplin was satisfied to get his property back, he said.“

(...) Los Angeles Times, Oct. 15, 1927

& Joseph Schenck Lauds Chaplin‘s „The Circus“

      at Sales Conferences (...)

      NEW YORK, Nov. 29. – At a luncheon conference held

here by United Artists sales executives, Joseph M.

Schenck, president; Al Lichtman, vice president and sales

head; Carroll Trowbridge, and Arthur Hornblow, Jr.,

were speakers.

      In his address Schenck discussed the forthcoming

product and declared that „Charlie Chaplin‘s ,The Circus‘ is the

greatest I ever saw.“

(...) Exhibitors Herald, Dec. 3, 1927

„Completes The Circus“

Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin Completes

      The Circus for U. A.

      The Circus, the new Charlie Chaplin production for

United Artists which has been in the making for two

years, is now being cut and titled by Chaplin, who wrote,

directed and produced it, besides acting the chief

role. There are 588,000 feet of film which have to be cut down

by Mr. Chaplin to eight reels, a slightly longer footage

than any of the other Chaplin films.

      Merna Kennedy, who makes her screen debut as the

comedian‘s leading lady in The Circus, has been

placed under contract to play opposite him in his next

production. In Chaplin‘s support are Harry Crocker,

Betty Morrissey, Allan Garcia, Henry Bergman, Stanley J.

Sandford, John Rand, George Davis, Steve Murphy

and Doc Stone.

      Roland H. Totheroh was chief cameraman

on the new Chaplin production; his assistants were Jack

Wilson and Mark Marlatt.“

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