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

The storyline within the film displays this. Chaplin’s tramp falls in really like with Merna, who returns his affection. Then, a tightrope walker named Rex (played by Henry Bergman) comes onto the scene and Merna instantly falls in like with him. Why? Since his act is daring and hazardous while Chaplin’s clown act has considerably less Status.