Judge — January 29, 1921 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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NEW MOVES IN THE MOVIES ROSY Truth and By Myron Mos NCE upon a time, according to the authorities and Mr. H. G. Wells, when the world was still hot and troubled and uneasy with earthquakes, primitive li came crawling up out of the shallow seas and sat in the sun. A little while later-——mebbe only a few million years the carth cooled off a bit more, and let moss grow on it, and trees. Then of course came monkeys. And after that (only 1 An ort step) came man, the human animal ier step, and presto: The Movies! Introducing a new atly accelerated creature, much more active and excitir the Front Office), which we ean call the than man (accordi Movie Animyle In appearance. the Movie Animyle res srovement is noted in the hair ables the humar are or less closely. An it ich can be removed and replaced at will be seen ata glance. The ages differ fron ind whiskers, w This may sometim those of the common garden human, the females being for the most part your Nutiy headec that they cause no strain whatever upon the eves except when ing. The males also are largely young and Apollo-like ind usually bent only on mating. Indeed, the chief occupa ourtship, with and so casy to look at ies may be set down tion of this advanced marriage and domestic infelicity on the side. Just as, in by gone ages, man’s unhappy progenitors may be imagined swinging idly by their tails from the stronger branches. the Movie Animy'le is usually last seen clinging closely to its rightful mate, just as earlier the Fillum THAKNS (“LeNSo’’) tional convention arese and became accepted as almost fact My darlir cried Reginald, and folded her to his busom.”” ‘That was almost at the end of the chapter—almost, but not quite There was the concluding sentence: And from the darkening vault of Heaven above them, a single star shone out Think of all those single stars! Night after night—book iter book! And all those Reginalds, folding her so. many ler to me she could stand if, without breaking being folded so much times! It’s a won it the creases fror Ah, them was happy days! And now — it’s movies. Only There's the rub. ‘That “more so." It begins to look as be too much. Dec though it migh ledly too much. Time to backstep. Got to travel back a bit, toward the monkeys, and mere mer The begi cranked ata speed of around sixteen exposures a second, or foot of film; sixty feet a minute--nearly seventeen minutes of crank- x for a full reel of film. But when that film is run for people to look at, it's speeded up a bit, so you won't get too tired. Marching troops have to march a little faster ting Was insensible. A motion-picture camera is automobiles are driven a bit more recklessly. Instead of being run at the “real life’ speed of over sixteen minutes to a reel, thirtcen minutes and a half is usually re garded as ample. ‘That is now “regula as caught clinging to the other fe ss ve ro iL was fc vutes. it w ight clinging to the other fel Pictures Worth Watching: \ f ago it was fourteen minute low"s _ | rueoto swimminc-noLe | Phe rest followed. Real life being « bit But these are minor matters. The real Charles Ray in a film withe too slow, oo tame, we improved on it fo advance lies in the emotional realm. For words | tillum purposes, making two villains grow BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS 5 when the plain human merely walked Harmtess Scotch vitinge comed where only one grew before, and stepping athed, loved its home and children with, the whole, a fairly constant affection, and © evening reading or sewing or playing games or going to some mild enter i PASSION* foreig THE GREAT A ‘Arnold Benn! MAN, WOMAN spends t tip-tocs or cavesdrops evilly, is furiously | M/OSUMMER EDGAR COME Fairly good tw OVER THE HI. The children mectings with old friends as clandestine love affairs. The older males of the species in- | variably compel their daughters to. marry icir money, and. the il it is crooked partners fe and abet them, ui Average Ray older fem. 19 AND PHYLLIS hard on the loud pedal for love-—the-only fit thing-in-lifeshingling further and further DVENTURE | uk ett's’ Buried Alive AL onto the fog. ne other day [saw a “big” picture, with AND MARRIAGE otion pitcher i big’ theme. Alan, Woman and Mar AON ESS riage.” it’s called, and it rakes the ages for fuel But the men and women in it are not DIES real men and women, they're merely ‘o-reel humor LL neglect m1 motion-picture men and women — Movie Animyles. So the picture ar really big only in motion pictures. In real life they're not big at all, because they are 1 theme are too late, or at least, late enough. | Breathing LESS MEN ss ccereeable | not a part of it, have nothing to do with it. regarded as a physical exercise, | story ‘of the sea The film will please millions of people, be- Iway's being heaved tempestuously throt THE MISLEADING LADY cause it is a “hig movie"; but it won't grip ; Long but « out the frequent stresses of emotion drama To be sure, there is precedent for this movie phenomenon. In the quict days of re literature, a certs realm of fi Exceptionally WAY DOWN EAST Melodrama de luxe. people deeply—it will for the most part 1 forgotten quickly because it) lacks that fundamentally essential thing, (ruth, fidel ity to real life hood comicbooks