Judge — July 17, 1920 — page 27: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

A Mack Sennett atrocity which hes no other excuse than its raw bid for the approval of the prurient-minded. This is from one of Sennett’s so-called comedies. And here is another bit from “Why Change Your Wife?” which is lining ‘em up at the box-office. The picture is more offensive than it looks here, and simply to spare the blushes of our readers we have censored it as well as the others on this page of pruriencies. This is a Samuel Goldwyn bit from ‘The Slim Princess” with Mabel Normand the title role. The screen production is based on George Ade’s famous story, but it is doubtful if Mr. Ade had any hand in this crude perversion of the tale. One of the subtler forms of sex- appeal “lugged into” an otherwise sound screen story. This is from Cecil B. De Mille’s movie transcription of J. M. Barrie's “Admirable Crichton,” screened as “Male and Female.” Another De Mille production where a decent story subserves the producer's desire for “pep” by the introduction of a woman's exaggerated decollete under the libidinous gaze of a man. The title is “Why Change Your Wife?” Indecency as Portraved in the Movies Justa Mip Hatr-Dozen “Stit1s,” Taken at Ranpom, To SHow THE w Menace or Motion Pictures Perhaps the Lasky-Paramount-Artcraft Corporation can excuse this bit of im- modesty on the ground of art, but the picture itself would seem to say all there is to be said against it on the ground of shamelessness,