Judge — October 22, 1921 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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was a father. And that, you must admit, is different.” r x amie: tater bea) hero, foo! [AN UNPARALLELED OPPORTUNITY She ignored that question as beneath her dignity. I had to try again. “If Ray and the rest are all fine and dandy, why not George Arliss? Isn’t he a better actor than any of them ?” “But he’s at least fifty.” I began to see a light. “Too old, eh? Too old to be a hero. That’s it, is it? Only young men need apply for medals.” Victoria tossed her head. “It’s not just being heroes. It’s having the main part in a picture. Who ever heard of a photoplay being built around an old man, or an old woman? Old actors can be as good as anybody, but they play character parts—not leads. That’s why Theodore Roberts is so good; he doesn’t try to be anything different. See what I mean? For a principal part, everybody wants a young, strong hero—or a beautiful actress if she’s a heroine.” “I see. And this Arliss party has committed the offense of being the principal, as well as the best, actor in the piece, in spite of his age.” “That’s it, just about. The whole story is only built around an old man and his wife in love with each other. Of course they’d be in love with each other at that age— if they ever would. And a Suez Canal or a ditch or something that Russia wants to get before the old man can buy it for England. Why, that’s not a story at all! Not a photoplay story.” “No young folks around, eh? No strong and manly heroes and beautiful young actresses wearing dresses —fifty-fifty. No chickens, eh? “The young couple in ‘Disraeli, returned Vic o” gravely, “are just incidental. They don’t have the center of the screen at all. So you see—” THE CARONIA ONDER CRUISE TO THE DITERRANEAN Limited to 35O Guests Jan. 28 to March ,30, 1922. Never before has there been offered an opportunity of visiting the strange lands and stranger peoples of the great Sea of History and Literature in such luxurious comfort of appointments and service as will be enjoyed in the com- ing Cruise of the Cunarder Caronia. Theltinerary includes visits to MADEIRA, SPAIN (Cadiz- Seville- Granada) GIBRALTAR, (Tangier) ALGIERS, MONACO (Nice and Monte Carlo) NAPLES (and envi- rons. ALEXANDRIA, (Cairo and Nile) PALESTINE, (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, etc.) CONSTANTINOPLE, ATHENS, ITALY (Naples and Rome). Stop-over privileges in Europe —with return passage by Aquitania, Mauretania, Berengaria and other Cunarders, Full information and literature on request THOS. COOK & SON New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston San Francisco Los Angeles Montreal Toronto Vancouver 150 Offices throughout the World “So, on the whole, you feel that as a photoplay, ‘Disraeli’ is a flivver.” She considered. “No, it’s well done. That ball-room scene, where he came in with his hands behind his back, all alone—that was splendid, somehow. And people cried, several times. I noticed lots of handker- chiefs, when he and his wife were just loving each other. But you wouldn’t exactly call it good. It was —well—a little tiresome. Don’t you think so?” “Victoria,” I said, “it wasn’t at all pretentious; but to me it seemed one of the finest things that’s yet been screened.” Supermen The Man of the Hour is the man who is asked to wait for a woman a minute. An Appetight Squeeze It will soon be necessary for a woman to reduce in order to enter the kitchen of a modern apartment. Adamant There has always been excitement over big rents since Eve tore her fig- leaf on a thorn. 33 Following in his father’s footsteps. comicbooks.com