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Film Daily, New York, February 7, 1926

The Circus Scenes

& Milt Gross, the author of „Nize Baby,“ which has been purchased

by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is being welcomed to Hollywood

by Joan Crawford. Milt has been engaged by M-G-M as gag man

and he will adapt his „Nize Baby“ to the screen.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture News, Aug. 25, 1928

& Milt Gross and Joan Crawford. Dunt ask!

Gradually wit pictures they are making „Nize Baby.“ Is dis a system?

(...) Chatter from Hollywood By Martin Martin,

Screenland, Sept. 1928

& Milt Gross „Arrives“

      Milt Gross has arrived. The author of the dialect stories

has a tale about himself in the October „Success

Magazine“ entitled „The Comic Creator of Nize Baby.“

„Success Magazine“ only writes of people who

are famous in their particular fields.

(...) Variety, Oct. 6, 1926

& „Mein Gott!“ says Milt Gross. „I gotter go back

to New Yoik some day, ain‘t it? I should say Hoover end

never see Foity-Thoid Street again. Dunt esk.“

(...) President Herbert Hoover, Republican; President Alfred E.

Smith, Democrat – Herb or Al? Prophesying How

Hollywood Will Vote Is A Politicklish Proposition By Dorothy

Donnell, Motion Picture Classic, Nov. 1926

& STAGE AND SCREEN

      Photo. Charlie Chaplin.

      Chaplin‘s next picture will be „The Circus.“ The famous

comedian was assisted in the concoction of the

picture by Milt Gross, creator of „Nize Baby.“ Gross conceived

some of the „gags“ – as cinematic lexicographers term

comic sequences – of „The Circus.“

      One of these scenes, the ballyhoo man reports, depicts

Charlie on a tight rope. It is generally known that as a

retained part of his vaudeville training Chaplin can walk the

taut wire with some degree of success. However,

in „The Circus,“ he is faking it, visibly supported by a thin

strong wire, which the circus audience cannot see.

Sure of himself, the brave fellow teeters up and down the

wire daringly, contemptuous of a band of howling

monkey below.

      Then the wire snaps.

      Unaware that his overhead support has broken, Charlie

keeps on skipping up and down the length of the

wire, a veritable lilt in his step. Suddenly he spies the

dangling wire before his eyes. He looks up. He

looks down at the monkeys. He looks at the wire, and his

face goes white.

      Down from his eminence comes the brave fellow, proud

before his fall.

      According to all information at hand, the circus story

is woven of just ludicrous situations. It is „built for

laughter, a low-brow comedy for high-brows and one that

will satisfy his most exacting critics.“ 

(...) Hartford Courant, Hartford, Conn., May 5, 1926

„Returned from Hollywood“

Editorial content. „Gross Back

      Milt Gross has returned from Hollywood, where

he developed gags for a new Chaplin comedy.“

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