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Charlie Chaplin in "The Circus" needs no introduction or comment. Just as "The Trial of Mary Dugan" emerges successfully from an earlier backwoods melodrama so Charlie Chaplin, in resisting the temptation to throw pies, finds a more sophisticated comic medium. The pies, however, are not too far around the corner. Thursday evening George Arlise as the suave and realistic Disraell is no less worthy of another presentation...
...action takes place on one set that is very good. As for the lines themselves, they suggest the expected epigrams without actually coming up to the standard of the best smart talk. All of the action is amusing if not hilariously comic. As a beginning for the last lap of the college year it is probably the best thing in town at the present moment...
...FROM BLANKLEY'S-John Barrymore's idea of comic inebriation...
Despite a fresh clown act in the never ending comic opera of Polish politics (see below) the Government took an important step last week toward Progress...
...stage as leading lady with E. B. Murphy '31 taking the chief male role, and P. A. Tolman '31 and Sturtevant Burr '31 providing the comedy. These artists will be supported by three mixed choruses, one an assembly of farmers and farmerettes. H. C. Adamson '30 will give a comic specialty...