Circus Day

The circus is coming to town! Matty Roubert want to go, but father is ill and his mother says they have to save their pennies. So Matty puts on his own circus as Our Gang or Mickey Maguire later would. The mean old farmer whose barn they have borrowed, who drinks from a jub labeled "Hard Cider" objects and scare all the kids.

This is the earliest version of the-gang-putting-on-a-circus plot I have seen, so I have to give it snaps for that. It would not surprise me if Roach saw this and said "I can do better". Star Matty Roubert, born in 1907 had started out as a screen actor with the 1910 version of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. He continued onscreen, in supporting roles and stunt work until 1955, the year he got married. He died in 1973.