Judge, 1920-08-14 · page 29 of 36
Judge — August 14, 1920 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page celebrates actress **Hope Hampton** and her film career in early Hollywood. The text praises her success in the movie industry ("Filmdom"), noting she's earned popularity and money ("long green"). The two photographs showcase her in the film **"Tiger Lily,"** described as a melodrama. The text backhands the film industry generally—sarcastically praising director **Maurice Tourneur** for making an "intelligent effort" *without* "vulgarities," implying most films rely on lowbrow content like "one-piece bathing suits and lingerie" rather than artistic merit. The satire targets Hollywood's reputation for shallow entertainment and exploitation, while crediting Tourneur as an exception who maintains artistic standards. This reflects Judge magazine's upper-class editorial perspective skeptical of mass entertainment and female objectification in early cinema.
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OPE HAMPTON finds a pleasant pasturage for her talent and beauty in the land of Filmdom and has recently plucked some pretty posies of popularity thickly gar- nished with the long green. Here are twe camera studies of Miss Hampton in “Tiger Lily,” an honest to (Sidney) Toler mellerdrammah of the screen. Whatever merits or demerits the picture may possess, you can be sure it will be an intelligent effort, minus the usual vulgarities, for it has been made under the direction of Maurice Tourneur, one of the few motion-picture builders with a sense of proportion, the eye of an artist, and a mind above one-piece bathing suits and lingerie. = comichooks.