Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 11, 1928

Laugh, Clown, Laugh. The time has now definitely arrived when only a very small and insensitive urchin will be so mean as to laugh at one of Ringling's Pierrots capering in the centre ring. Everyone else is aware that the spangled comedian has an unhappy love life, a severe case of pyorrhea, and an insatiable appetite for the flesh of the Australian wombat. Only the most agonized and pathetic courage enables him to smile and dance in the performance of his duties. This picture concerns a Grimaldi whose unhappy habit is to moan and...

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