sunday june 5 and 6 represent30pm neptune theater saturday june 11 and 11 represent00am egyptian theater swing little girl . swing high in the sky and and do not ever look at the ground . if youre look for rainbow look up to the sky . you will never find rainbow if youre look down . the point at which the world of cinema catch up to and pass charles chaplin be the circus and his final film of the silent era . a disastrous production schedule and chaplin personal turmoil at the time have much to do with the diminished stature of this film . likely an episode in his life he choose to forget and exclude from his autobiography and the film be forget until it re release in 1969 with an original soundtrack compose and title song perform by the then eighty year old chaplin . the circus and despite all this and be no less a work of genius than his other film of the era and include many of chaplin best and most memorable comic moment . in a spectacular opening shot we see merna and a circus rider and burst through a paper ring to reveal all the vitality of the big top and a degas dancer amid the sawdust and light . while lack the chemistry chaplin have with edna purvaince and merna kennedy bring a sweetness and charm to her character . her joy be short live when she be brutalize by the ringmaster for her lack of perfection . enter the little tramp and broke and starving and yet always manage to get by and this time and secretly feed by a babe in arm . a victim of misunderstanding and happenstance and he find himself pursue by police and across the boardwalk and into the fun house maze of mirror in a complex and magical scene . after charlie be force to masquerade a an automaton to avoid capture the chase end up under the big top and where he wreck the show but win the audience over with his misadventure . the mayhem subsides and the performance resume and we be leave with the dissatisfaction of the crowd and where the funny man . bring on the funny man . oblivious and he lie fast asleep in a nearby horse cart . chaplin brilliance be never so clear a when he portray every day life in all it mundane little detail . the starve little dancer steal his breakfast . he rebuke her and pity her and and in the end give her his meal . later and a she hurry off and the tramp be smite and and the die be cast . our little fellow manages to stumble his way to success and hire and fire and finally re hire a a circus prop man . he be in fact and and unknowing and the star of the show . a though to illustrate why his love for the girl can never be realize and the tramp toss food to merna from her lofty perch in the empty tent and they be from different world . in the end and he guide the girl to the safety of a good life and the promise of prosperity a the little tramp wanders off into the setting sun . in a picture fill with an excess of wonderful vignette and chase by a mad donkey while hold an enormous stack of dish and charlie surprise when he open a trunk to find it full of wild monkey and his boastfulness at survive a moment trap in the lion cage only to be frighten by a kitten and and william tell with a banana and chaplin leave still more on the cutting room floor . in the highlight of the film we see charlie hilarious trip across the highwire a he stand in for the absent star and be attack by the marauding monkey for his effort . while the circus may be thinner in character development and plot than chaplin other feature film and it remain a thoroughly enjoyable comic masterpiece . easily forget by modern moviegoer and no one have ever achieve the ability to express tenderness and joy and sadness and irrepressible humor and pathos to a great degree than chaplin . the broad appeal of his film make him the beloved everyman to a world wide audience . the circus be yet another gem from the great comic filmmaker of the silent era and a subtle hint of the masterpiece to follow . the opportunity to see this film on a big screen in a theater from the silent era be rare and should not be miss .