The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -31 Eddie Polo and his new lending lady, Cornne Porter, in "King of the Circus." Here Comes Eddie, B igger and Better Tkan Ever! "j^ING of the Circus"— that's the name of it. It is SOME serial, and it gives Eddie Polo SOME part. He was just GREAT in "The Vanishing Dagger," but he is just MARVELOUS in "King of the Circus." The story of the "King of the Circus" is in a great degree the true story of Eddie's youth and early days in the circus. No expense has been spared to make it as realistic as possible, and actual circus tents and performances throughout the country were filmed for the background. Naturally, then, the story fits the star like a glove; he is perfectly at home in "the big tent," and he performs enough stunts to thrill to the fullest the hearts of all his admirers. Eddie Polo has had any number of charming girls assist him in the thrilling episodes of his serials, but never has he had one who could outclass in any way Corrine Porter, his new leading lady. Corrine is a beauty, as the picture above gives full evidence of; Corrine has a dandy figure; Corrine can act, and, last and most important of all, Corrine is SOME acrobat, so that she fits right into the serial in first-rate style. Indeed, Corrine's stunts in the picture are in many instances as thrilling and as daring as those of the dauntless Eddie himself. Bom in the South, and accustomed to NEXT WEEK Next week's issue of The Moving Picture Weekly, that of October 30th, 1920, will be a "King of the Circus" number, and will be devoted almost exclusively to Eddie Polo and his big new serial, "King of the Circus," on which he and his company are now busy at work and which gives promise of being one of the serial sensations of the year. strenuous athletics all her life, Corrine practically stepped from the schoolroom into pictures, and, judging from her performance in "King of the Circus," she is going to stay in pictures. She can ride; she can swim; she does the dizziest of dives with the calmest ease, and she can in addition look as winsome and adorable as the prettiest of girls can look. Then there is Kittoria Beveridge, who plays the circus queen, one of the prettiest ingenues imaginable, whom movegoers will be sure to like, and Charles Fortune, who plays the part of the circus clown, and is really a circus performer himself and a member of the famous Fortune family, performers under the "big tent" for several generations. More than a dozen years ago Eddie Polo and the Fortune brothers played together with the Ringling Brothers' Circus, Eddie being the star acrobatic performer, while the Fortunes were wearing motley and amusing the crowds with their merry antics. Not only is Polo the principal actor in the serial; he has in addition taken a prominent part in the directing of its thrilling episodes. J. P. McGowan shares the directorial honors with him, and between them they are making a serial which will be sure to cause a sensation when it is released. Eddie Polo is known all over the face of the globe. And he is popular in the most remote regions where movies have managed to penetrate. Each new serial brings him back bigger and better. He has to his credit "The Broken Coin," "Liberty," "The Bull's Eye," "The Lure of the Circus," and his most recent success, "The Vanishing Dagger," a considerable portion of which was filmed abroad, and now he is coming with his biggest and most serious undertaking, "Kiny of the Circus." 1