Judge — October 28, 1922 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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In “Remembrance the old man (by Gillingwater) gets the double cross with palms Ruth Hale’s Movie Page The Hx-deadly Female RAM ought to try to keep up with the times. The feeblest among us know by now that the lady vamp is not going as she once did. Her companion piece, the he-man, is not far behind her on the way to the limbo of indigestible fictions, but even a he-man has a better > to swing a picture than a vamp. he new Ingram film, “Trifling Women,” has the following promise on the program: “The story of a Sorceress of Paris, with the beauty of Aphrodite, and the cunning of Circe, who feeds on the loves and lives of men.” Of course, all that that means to movie ans is that some woman is going to r close-fitting black satin clothes, a thick blue-black make-up over and under her drooping eyes, and jeweled sandals : that she will through thick draperies, nd register villainy as the cent men fall down in fateful worship before her. The chances are that she will be, if not beautiful, at least pretty. Her figure will be good, too—at the least, it will have the one essential vamp me: urement: extra length from the hip bone to the knee j i i expect the “S of Aphrodite, e * to be any more than that, they ve an even greater ievance against Mr. Ingram than we have. ently uty ARBARA LA MARR, the chief “trifler” is a standard make. As for her cunning, we regret to report that it was nowhere in evidence. This is the burden of our own complaint. We will let Mr. Ingram give us a wild woman who is pictorially if he will make her do things either smart or interesting. ‘The “cunning of Circe” is probably a good deal to ask. As we remember Circe, she was not so much cunning as forthright and businesslike, but we may be mistaken. We had al thought that she offered a simple bargain to Ulysses: to “come on over to the pig-stys and try for a better time than you're likely to have with the domestic Peneloy When he went, he went with his eves open. Nothing half so pleasant and honorable happens when Mr. Ingram’s Circe goes inte Her behavior was red ally desperately dull. She was carefully shown to be no better than she should be. She got her first man on the strength of that. She was willing, but not anxious, and that is good formula. She got her next: mar he was younger—by claiming that she was much better than she should be. The third went down before her striking like- ness to his late wife. Around this tiresome person a. story wilder than a lunar dream is told and told and told. Hers . is a little sample of it again, from the program: “De Maupin, possessed with fury, plots the Marquis’ death. Inviting him and Zareda to a dinner at the Peau de Vin, he arrives there in advance and drops poison into a goblet of wine placed at the seat of the Marquis. ‘The inn- keeper apprehends him, extorts money for rries the news , Whose name he has seen on a place card. With the aid of her servant, Achmed, the hunchback, and Hatim- the ape, she shifts the goblets. baron dies by his own poison.” The program states further that Rex Ingram wrote the story and the scenario. We will have to leave it at that. tion. The IONEL Barrymore is appearing in a film which nobody could call sane or temperate, but which moves with the languor of a summer sea as compared to the Ingram madne: he Face in the Fog,” one of the “BI Dawson” stories by Jack Boyle, is a childlike tale of stolen jewels and Russian spies and terrorists and itinerant grand duchesses, which ought to provide almost anybody with an afternoon of gentle amusement. The best thing in “The Face in the Fog” is a flying fight between Lionel Barrymore 15 and Louis Wolheim, in which both of them display a perfectly beautiful earnest- Lionel and Louis ought to know how to fight by this time, for, back in the days before Louis’ played “The Hairy Ape” and became a regular actor, he was the burly Florentine who subdued Lionel in the famous fight in “The Jest.” 'T) fight used to b and we prepared to swear that there was shirking it. It was a real shindy, and in those days it took not only Louis Wolheim but two or three extra men to hold the raging Neri back until his cue came. It had to be not only art but self-defense with Louis Wolheim to hold on to Lionel. In * » Face in the Dark’ the fight. is long eat this pains to certify ause we know that most movie fights are under a just suspicion. There are no luckless “doubles” in this picture. There are things wrong in it, but the fight is not one of them. ness. sae The Freak by Harry J. Williams OME ON! 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