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Show Joe E. Brown Will Come to Town With Circus Clown' With all its color, its action, its blare and heraldry, the circus both as seen in the ring and as lived behind the tent drops will be shown on the screen of the Cameo Theatre, where Joe E. Brown will appear in the First National picture "The Circus Clown", on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, August 5, 6 and 7. One of the greatest comedians in the history of filmdom, who has actually ac-tually lived the life he depicts, for Joe E. Brown was a circus acrobat as a boy, Brown has been given a vehicle that allows his marked talents tal-ents full sway, and, supported by an exceptionally capable company, including in-cluding the entire cast of the Al G. Barnes circus, he brings to his audience aud-ience a screamingly funny comedy that is replete with love interest, thrills and action, and which at times has touches of pathos that stop the laughter with a hint of tears. Patricia Ellis plays the leading feminine role opposite Joe and is the aerialist with whom he finally falls in love, although when he first joins the circus he is madly infatuated in-fatuated with a bareback rider who is a female impersonator. This love affair makes him the butt of no end of jokes until he finally discovers dis-covers that his enamorata is a man. The romances are badly tangled, for the bareback rider, a part played by Donald Dillcway, is- in love with Dorothy Burgess, in the role of a lion tamer. To cover up his own treachery he leads the husband, Harry Har-ry Woods, the knife thrower, to believe be-lieve that Joe is his wife's lover, which makes it hot for the star. Joe's own misfortunes make for the hilarity of the comedy. Others in the cast include Gordon Westcott, Ronnie Cosby, John Shee-han, Shee-han, Spencer Charters, Tom Dugan, Earl Hodgins and Bobby Caldwell, in addition to the host of circus performers. |