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Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., February 12, 1928.

May Our Good Wishes „Rain“ On Sid Grauman, California‘s

Beloved Son and Master Showman

(...) Photo, Hollywood Filmograph, Sept. 17, 1932, detail

& Los Angeles

      AS is customary with all Chaplin openings, Hollywood turned

out en masse Friday evening to pay tribute to the

comedian and to Sid Grauman in whose Chinese Theatre

the long awaited film, The Circus was ushered in.

There has been a constant line to the box office for seats ever

since the opening.

(...) Motion Picture News, Feb. 11, 1928

& CIRCUS COMEDY

      INSPIRES CHEFS

(...) Los Angeles Evening Express, Feb. 13, 1928

& EVEN CHEFS FEEL URGE

      Delicacies with Sawdust Flavoring

      Reveal Cinema Influence

(...) Los Angeles Times, Feb. 13, 1928

„The only thing left to do“

Editorial content. „AND NOW HE WOULD

      HAVE OPERA FAME

      Clown Cites Performance in All but One

      Field of Entertainment

      Should the day ever come when Poodles Hanneford,

ace of clowns and declared the world‘s greatest

rider of the sawdust ring, appears in grand opera, he will

be able to boast that he has taken part in

every entertainment field offered by the show world.

      Appearance in that single field is the only

one not numbered among those in Hanneford‘s career,

which has included all fields from circuses to

prologue presentations, the latter being attained for the first

time when he was brought here to appear in Sid

Grauman‘s presentation prologue to Charlie Chaplin‘s

The Circus, now drawing throngs to Grauman‘s

Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

      When a youth Hanneford appeared in dramatic productions

in England, and later with his string of marvelous

horses and troupe of famous riders, he has shown with all

the big circuses, and has introduced his performers

in vaudeville, motion pictures, light opera, musical comedy,

as well as in all sorts of musical extravaganzas

in and out of doors.

      To complete his entertainment experience, Poodles

states that the only thing left to do is cultivate his

voice and sing the title role of the clown in Il Pagliacci.

      With Hanneford in Grauman‘s prologue,

Ballyhoo, an indoor circus in itself, are presented such famed

performers of the show world as Pallenberg‘s

cycling bears; Ed and Jenny Rooney, famous trapeze

artists; Samaroff and Sonia and their educated

canines; the Three Freehands, equilibrists; and other noted

circus folk.“

      Grauman‘s Chinese Theater, 6925 Hollywood Blvd., L. A.

      The Circus is released by United

      Artists in New York January 6, 1928.

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