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Exhibitors Herald and Motion Picture World, N. Y., April 28, 1928.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

      IN „THE CIRCUS“ – CHINESE

(...) Cartoon, Los Angeles Evening Express, March 31, 1928

„Dressed as an old lady of the mid-Victorian period“

Editorial content. „Rambling Round Hollywood

      By J. M. Loughborough

      SID GRAUMAN is always doing something new. He sits

up nights thinking of new stunts and jokes, and those

who surround the Maestro of motion picture prologues will tell

you ,That don‘t mean maybe.‘ Sid‘s closest friend

is Charles Chaplin. One night Charlie went to the Egyptian

dressed as an old lady of the mid-Victorian period and

excitedly asked for the manager. Mr. Grauman

greeted ,her.‘

      ,YOU‘VE swindled me!‘ exclaimed the supposed female

patron. ,I bought a seat and it‘s not what your ads said

it was.‘ Sid was the essence of politeness. He always is polite,

but this time he played the part of Chesterfield so

earnestly that tears filled his eyes. Even Chaplin couldn‘t

go any farther when he saw Sid‘s grief. He revealed

himself, whereupon Grauman said: ,Never mind. I‘ll even

things up. Just wait.‘

      And he‘ll do it.

      A GRAUMAN THEATRE FOR BEVERLY HILLS

      Grauman now is planning a new theatre for

Beverly Hills. Chaplin in The Circus goes out of the Chinese

in May and M-G-M‘s The Trail of ’98 comes in. There

is an imposing array of stars in this Klondike picture – also

Fritz Tidden, former newspaperman. Fritz knows his

Hoyle, also how to stack the cards. In The Trail of ’98 he is seen

as a Klondike gambler. Sid thinks a lot of this Klondike

picture because, as a lad, he went up that way seeking gold.

He froze two toes, almost starved to death and then

came back to California to get his gold.“

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