LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S "THE CIRCUS" (1928).

The storyline in the film exhibits this. Chaplin’s tramp falls in really like with Merna, who returns his affection. Then, a tightrope walker named Rex (played by Henry Bergman) arrives onto the scene and Merna immediately falls in appreciate with him. Why? Simply because his act is daring and perilous when Chaplin’s clown act has fewer Status.