Judge — July 24, 1920 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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IN THE CAMERA’S Drown by Heawax Paton “Male and Female ” or Nearly Nude By Lexso . that: oF £0; EARING in mind, Friends, Romans and Countryn Gold is the gasoline that makes the motion Gold is often to be got by showing lots of lovely Many children The motion picture Myrmido g¢ the thi too many, or too ated by the > to movies—pe many movi first two facts, while fool: wed too m legs; they went too f. There fi ts; what the big f exposed p with profitably, the little fellows will of the “big fellows”. pably tops the list. from Griffith, Tourneur, His films go to miilion hundreds of other picture Bearing in mind, Fries let's have a look at Cecil de Mille’s photoplay enticingly entitled Male and Fe title: “TI ¢ Crichte Sir J. M. Barrie.) Remem- ssect this pi thing: ete., all the: Well then, we start with a Bible quotati Wen hal of the play in bed—rawthaw clevaw, g through the key-holes as ct the chief pe know—with a small boy peepi places the boots before the respective doors. His delight proaches ecstasy whi nter squirms about a bit he earl’s lovely daue! We specialize daughter of them all. We see her get out of bed and into a dre: this lovelie: if gown as caref as though she knew f audiences all over the wo: that millions of people, in thousands were watching her etery move not t We follow t busily pouring The rc very moment, and she must be careful how too much or too long. into the bathrc where two maids have been wer and bath crystals into the yulders as she descends into the t back. It by the two maids, who hold it e-water into the plun; e slips from her s| water, showing ly the upper portion of a not-too-p is carefully kept from slipping too fa 2s up as a sc (For comment see last hall cr, the y the same ke: the bed, all follow in precis the admirable Crichton, evidently created mal and the lady takes offe le too close yetis goes on. We have the stirring wreck of a small yacht when the put his arm around the li as. The moral of t y of earls’ daughters wear mong uninhabited islands. ‘The wreck catches the lady cs all unprepared for disaster thataway, and stvashes them ingly, so that we are at last pall-gowns most convi: ¢ the suspense—that even these blue-blood darlings really the plot of the pi pabited island we of course revert to the to-be- gely innocuous makeshift coverings for male and our friend the butler, now come into his own, has nanded one of the faire to use as a fish net the grass-skirts and elaborate woven-works begin to get ctor de Mille g na bit of Babylonian onceives it, with the admirable Crichton, King of Baby- iece. lady’s few remaining garments- erously. toss Well. ‘The point of all this is here: This stuff is all dragged into the pict It’s not necessary to the story. It’s used, apparently, merely to give a touch of salaciousness to what might otherwise have been a perfectly clean film—simply to bri tional dollars into the box office. not sincere art. And it’s pointing the way to more of the h De Mille, this sort of thing is done with wonderful skill; s just where to draw the line. But the fellows that will be copying De Mille next month and next year donot. The thing ought not to be encouraged; it ought to be stopped. To paraphrase the famous mixed metaphor; “I smell a rat; I sce him floating in the air; but mark my words— we'd better nip him in the bud! EYE ac comicbooks.com