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Film Daily, New York, January 11, 1928.
Critics‘ Award. Robert Sherwood presented
to Mrs. M. H. Aylesworth, for RKO Radio, the New York
Critics‘ Award to ,The Informer‘ as the best of 1936.
Seated (l. to r.): Bland Johaneson, Mirror; Rose Pelswick,
Journal; Mrs. Aylesworth; Regina Carewe, American;
Kate Cameron, News. Standing: Seymour Roman, Brooklyn
Standard Union; William Boehnel, World-Telegram;
Thornton Delehanty, Post; Richard Watts, Jr., Herald-Tribune;
Leo Mishkin, Telegraph; Mr. Sherwood; F. S. Nugent,
Times; Martin Dickstein, Brooklyn Eagle.
(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, March 7, 1936
& Doors Open Daily at 10:30 A. M.
Charlie Chaplin in „The Circus“
The Greatest Show of Mirth
Mark Strand (...)
Extra Midnight Showing Daily at 11:30
MARK STRAND SYMPHONY ORCH.
(...) Variety, Jan. 18, 1928
& Mark Strand (...) Doors Open At Noon
Charlie Chaplin
In the Greatest Show of Mirth
The Circus
Regular Mark Strand Prices
Extra Midnight Show Nightly at 11:30
(...) Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, Jan. 22, 1928
„To me The Circus is one of the best“
Editorial content. „Newspaper Opinions
,The Circus‘
United Artists
Strand
American –* * * Chaplin has proved his ability
as a director, and though the story is but a series
of situations generously interpolated with,gags,‘ who are
we to complain when there is a laugh a minute
to more than cover a slight deficit in plot or big dramatic
moment? * * *
Daily Mirror–* * * is a great picture. Chaplin is at his
best in a riotous comedy with an undercurrent of pathos.
It‘s certain to live long and be loved. The hardest-boiled crowd
in town went to the midnight opening on Friday and
laughed off all its mascara. * * *
Daily News–* * * a screaming delight from fadein
to fadeout. It is a howling, hearty, happy, slightly
slap-stick cinema production, wherein the inimitable Charlie
gets you more often by a laugh than by the tear. * * *
Evening Journal–* * * It took Charles Chaplin two
years to film The Circus, * * * and it was worth waiting
for. In my opinion it is far better comedy than his last one,
The Gold Rush. * * *
Evening World–* * * ranks among his (Chaplin‘s)
best, and in two or three spots it is as funny as
anything ever put upon the screen. To be sure, there are
a few places in it which seem to drag, but these
doubtless are the result of the extremely high standard
set by the highlights. * * *
Graphic–* * * a strange conglomeration, made
up of inspired moments and hoary movie stuff.
At times there is evident the touch of genius that is Chaplin‘s,
and still this film story is thick with aged picture
hokum. Chaplin has never done better work than in three
or four episodes of The Circus. * * *
Herald Tribune–* * * There are certain ones who
declare that Shoulder Arms was a better picture
than The Circus, but we find this newest picture at least
as funny as anything Chaplin ever has done. * * *
Post–* * * in the entire course of it there is no moment
when its unity of mood and its fine economy of direction
are threatened, or when Mr. Chaplin is anything but himself
– a fellow of infinite jest and (what is just about
unique in his profession) most excellent fancy. * * *
Sun–* * * A more proficient work than The Gold Rush,
it is, but wholly lacking in that film‘s great flashes;
and compared to The Kid and The Pilgrim, it is negligible.
But even so, Mr. Chaplin‘s ingenious, his cleverness,
being what they are, and his ability to pile one stunt on another
being what it is, The Circus is bound to be classed
as a success. * * *
Telegram–* * * either because of or in spite of ignoring
over-salty tears in favor of a Coney Island madhouse,
impresses us as the funniest theatrical offering since The
Gold Rush. * * *
Telegraph–* * * while this latest Chaplin ,epic‘ is an
undoubted success, it is inspired only in flashes, and
somehow fails to add greatly to the Chaplin tradition. * * *
Times–* * * is likely to please intensely those who found
something slightly wanting in The Gold Rush, but
at the same time it will prove a little disappointing to those
who revelled in the poetry, the pathos and fine
humor of his previous adventure. * * *
World–* * * To me The Circus is one of the best and most
amusing of all Mr. Chaplin‘s pictures, and it is one of the
best and most amusing largely because of the fact that it is cast
in that same old mould out of which so many of his
earlier triumphs rolled. * * *“
Strand Theatre, 1579 B‘way (at 47th St.), New York.
The Circus is released by United
Artists in New York January 6, 1928.
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