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O. C., New Yorker, New York, January 18, 1928.
Mr. Chaplin in „The Circus.“
(...) Drawing, New York Times, Jan. 15, 1928
& 2nd Record Breaking Week !
Charlie Chaplin
in the world‘s greatest record-breaking hit
„The Circus“
acclaimed as his supreme achievement
Mark STRAND (...)
Open Daily 10:30 – SUNDAY AT NOON
(...) New York Times, Jan. 15, 1928
„Mr. Chaplin should not have low points“
Editorial content. „THE CURRENT CINEMA
The Circus A Game of Humor – And an Act
OWING to the exigencies of going to press the latest
batch of movies will have to be reviewed next week
and that leaves space this week for a few thoughts I have
been wanting to express.
Included in a long list of films, The Circus was
dismissed a bit more summarily in these columns than
it deserved. During the moments when Mr. Chaplin
was stealing a loaf from a baby, or imitating a dummy,
or standing in a lion‘s cage, he was highly ludicrous,
and the high points of Mr. Chaplin‘s ludicrousness are very
high. On the other, the low points were exceedingly
low and Mr. Chaplin should not have low points. He is master
of humor and The Circus was to be his masterpiece
and he should not have bogged it down with a lot of second-rate
slapstick comedy such as the scenes when he was
learning to be clown, or was being a clown, or during the
time when he was chased in the maze. Any comedian
of any attainments could have carried on the same antics and
perhaps made them a touch funnier than they were.
Also I object to the pathos. Somehow the feeling has gotten
around that a smile-through-the-tears is happier
than a guffaw. Mr Chaplin rose his position on guffaws and
not on streaming tear ducts.“ (...)
„O. C.“ (...)
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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