Judge, 1922-11-04 · page 16 of 36
Judge — November 4, 1922 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page promotes a Rex Ingram silent film starring Ramon Navarro and Barbara La Marr. The "satire" here is genteel rather than political—*Judge* is advertising and mocking the film's melodramatic plot simultaneously. The film tells of a Parisian seductress (echoing classical mythology: Aphrodite, Circe) who manipulates multiple men's affections. She faces divine punishment—"the wages of sin"—from a vengeful man. The copy sarcastically describes this as medieval morality theater made "middle class," with director Ingram deploying apocalyptic drama. The humor targets both the film's overwrought moralizing and 1920s silent cinema conventions: the beautiful woman as temptress, seduction as tragedy, retribution as spectacle. Navarro's status as a contemporary "movie star" is gently mocked for audiences reading about his fictional romantic entanglements.
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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 Ramon Navarro, the latest movie star to which my lady fair may hitch the wagonload of her affections “TRIFLING WOMEN” TPHE Middle Ages are made to look middle class by this thrilling photo story of ‘a be- witching and beautiful woman who wantonly trifles with the affections of many men but who is brought to suffer the wages of sin by the avenging hand of one who is as relentless in his revenge as he is inventive i the method of its perform In this, his latest. production, Rex Ingram is riding all four horses of the Apocalypse.