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Motion Picture News, Dec. 12, 1925.

The Circus Scenes

& Chaplin Again in Spotlight With His Circus –

      And There‘s Another Reason

      By ROSALIND SHAFFER

      Hollywood, Cal., Dec. 12. – Charlie Chaplin is again

focusing Hollywood‘s interest for several separate

reasons, all of them enlivening to those who admire the

floppy-footed one.

      Reason 1 is that he is making a new picture dealing

with circus life. The circus tents on Charlie‘s lot

loom high above the studio walls, to the intense absorption

of youngsters in the neighborhood of Sunset and

Labrea, where the studio is located. The youngsters can‘t

understand why their mothers won‘t take them to the

circus, for certainly to the onlooker all the appurtenance

of the sawdust ring are there.

      Charlie himself may be discovered inside the studio

in gymnasium shoes and track suit hard at work

practicing tightrope walking. The rope is twenty feet up,

and if he is feeling jovial Charlie will show you

a number of steps and balances. An occasional loss

of balance will bring the comedian down twenty

feet, but his good humor stands it these days, for enter

reason No. 2 – Charlie is again looking forward

to being a parent.

      $5,000 Wager.

      Joseph M. Schenck, who holds the managerial strings

of United Artists and accordingly is Charlie‘s partner,

was dining with Charlie in a boulevard cafe, and Charlie, as is

his wont, became enthusiastic and gesticulatory

over his plans for this new picture. Charlie promised

Schenck, „I‘ll finish it in two months.“

      Schenck, with his business instinct, answered, „But you‘ve

outlined a good year‘s work.“

      Charlie insisted that he‘d be done in six months,

whereupon the pair laid a wager of $5,000 to that

effects. Now if Charlie wins the wager Schenck is much money

ahead, for he will have economized many times

that $5,000.

(...) Daily News, New York, Dec. 13, 1925

„Georgia Hale will be the girl“

Editorial content. „Charles Chaplin Making Ready to Start

      Production of The Circus“ (...)

      Charlie Chaplin in The Circus is the latest announcement

coming from the Chaplin studio. The comedian is getting

ready to start production on this picture and hopes to have it

ready for release next Spring or Summer. The interior

stage at the studio has been transformed into a circus gymnasium

and Chaplin and his assistants are going through a daily

routine of trick stunts. The story was conceived by Chaplin and

the action will center around the ,big-tops.‘ Charlie will

not appear in the usual garb of the circus, but in his usual

habiliments of old, the baggy pants, trick hat and cane,

the mammoth shoes and minute moustache.

      Georgia Hale will be the girl in The Circus in the role

of dancer and equestrienne.“ (...)

      Merna Kennedy will be the girl in The Circus, in the role

      of a dancer and equestrienne.

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