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Windsor Star, Windsor, Canada, February 12, 1926

The Circus Scenes

& MERNA KENNEDY

      Chosen by Charlie Chaplin to play the leading feminine

role in his forthcoming comedy, „The Circus.“

(...) Photo, Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, N. Y., March 7, 1926

& CHARLIE CAN SURE PICK ‘EM

      This is Chaplin‘s new leading lady, Merna Kennedy, who

will appear with the famous comedian in his next picture, „The Circus.“

(...) Photo by International, Atlanta Constitution,

Atlanta, Georgia, March 7, 1926

& NOTHING if not different in type are the leading women

selected by Charlie Chaplin for his least two

pictures, and I rather think from the photographs that I have

seen of her that the comedian has a find of considerable

sparkle in Merna Kennedy, who is playing the lead opposite him

in „The Circus.“

      She has a more positive personality than Georgia Hale,

I believe, although Miss Hale‘s elusiveness as a type

was in a large degree responsible for her charm. Miss Kennedy,

as has been told, was the girl of radiant auburn hair who

appeared in „All For You,“ and even with a small opportunity

rather easily gained one‘s interest.

      She seems more the comedienne type than any player

that Charlie has chosen to appear with him.

(...) CAMERA GAINS ELOQUENCE, By Edwin Schallert,

Los Angeles Times, Feb. 21, 1926

& Chaplin in Air

      Charley Chaplin, his pretty little leading woman, Merna

Kennedy, and Harry Crocker are all learning to walk

a tight rope. This is literal. The whole Chaplin studio is well

built up now with circus tents, interior entrances and

so forth, and every day these three get out and do their

aerial athletic stuff to the delight of the extras and

the technicians.

(...) San Francisco Examiner, Feb. 14, 1926

„As the wandering shabby genteel adventurer“

Editorial content. „Chaplin Adept At

      Tightrope Stuff

      Reports received by Hiram Abrams, President of United

Artists Corporation, from the closely guarded confines

of the Charlie Chaplin studio in Hollywood are that the noted

comedian has been up in the air, actually and not

figuratively for the last two weeks. For this forthcoming

United Artists Corporation release Chaplin has been

practising tightrope walking at a height sufficiently far above

the ground to make any but an expert dizzy. And

an expert Chaplin has become.

      the work is in preparation for the star‘s work in The Circus

and involves much more than straight tightrope walking.

The role requires stunts, such as rope dancing and acrobatic

stuff. Add to this the fact that all the rope business takes

place with the performer wearing the large shoes so characteristic

of his comedy make-up and an idea is obtained of the

difficulties to be met.

      The Circus is to be a riotious comedy without any note

of pathos. A most colorful circus lot background

is promised, with Chaplin, with his well known derby and cane,

performing not in clown garb but as the wandering

shabby genteel adventurer who has identified himself as the

world‘s most convulsing screen entertainer.“

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