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Poodles Hannaford came from a family that spent centuries as acrobats in the circus. He developed a collection of tricks that would have seemed to make him a natural for the screen, but his variety of clowning was often so bizarre that it never seemed to work. In this, his simplest film appearance, he is at his best: he plays a character who goes through basic circus clown routines, but he does it without clown makeup and so seems simply human: a fellow down to his last quarter, looking desperately for a job. What could be more human than that?

Unhappily, the time and place mitigated against him: it was 1928, silents were on their way out and he was working for the Weiss Brothers, so this very amusing comedy would lead no place. But for those interested in th history of clowning, you get to see Poodles do some of his famous bareback riding clowning. Still, worthwhile if you get a chance to see it.