Judge — August 4, 1923 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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WLLL EZ, THOSE MOVIE WIGS. Lady Bird: “Come on, George! Here’s one already made!” PICTURES ARE BUT SCREEN DEEP © MANY pictures have settled down to long runs at the theaters in New York that one must. either fillum for the second time or be ted to the ignominy of going to the What with “The Covered Wagon” rumbling along into. its th showing at the Criterion; “Enemies of Women” in its third or fourth month at the Cameo after ving done Broadway; “Human Wreckage” a drug on the market at the Lyric; “Rupert of Hen holding on at the Strand for a second week and Merry-Go-Round” carcening joyously at the Rialto—we say—what with all these hold overs, one finds it’ difficult not to repeat. We've discovered that one of the troubles with the movies is: they're cither too good or too bad—mostly the latter, every “Covered Wagon” a thou- sand and ‘one raving nights must be h brings us to the Capitol Theater where Anita Stewart is disporting in Frank R. Adams’ film, “The Love Piker.” This picture is the kind that leaves you a little uncertain as to whether you ought to go on with life seriously. Like the leopard it’s good in spots. Or better still, if one were seeking the perfect simile, it) resembles the little girl with the curl, which, as nearly as we can remember, goes like this: a movie star wuty stood at par ‘Though she was rather shy in matters cerebral. In distant Hollywood They rated her as good But otherwheres at times They thought her terrible. There w Whose h Anita, in this story, is the daughter of an awfully up-stage mother. The kind of woman who holds her nose so high she needs to powder it only once a day and orders everybody about after the manner of a young society matron with one servant, by George Mitchell Anita gads about quite a little and frequently drops into. the police court she can’t make her roadster mile in less than sixty. Here she meets Robert) Frazer born of poor but married parentage. You probably think that she falls in love with Robert. Well, she | does. That's one of the things about this picture that fools you. Every time you think you're going to be fooled: you're not. It never wavers from the old beaten path. Everything flows as serenely as a mountain brooklet and never once does the plot show a tendency to rush up hill. Yet, offends. 1 its somnolence, it never um Norris docs very. well with a corncob smoking father of whom Anita is much ashamed, but whose Kindliness wins her in the final fade-out It’s a picture that will not cause a riot anywhere and if you're warm and sleepy will soothe you into a peaceful frame of mind, 6© A GENTLEMAN oF Leisure,” starring Jack Holt at the Rivoli, is almost a good picture. Holt is an actor who has given much of his waking moments to his personal appearance. He always arranges with his scenarist to incorporate somewhere in the story 1 opportunity to be shot in his dinner cket. he lounge robe also becomes him. The kind of silken thing in which a wealthy bachelor spends his late morn- ings in converse with his man. Holt looks as if he had been born in the lounge room of a man’s club— fully dressed for dinner. In consequence of all this conjectural biography, you will understand that Mr. Holt is well fitted with “A Gentle- n of Leisure” and plays the réle of a wealthy young American with a graceful savoir faire that should please his large and ever growing gallery of adorable and adoring femininity. As Robert: Pitt one him fall: in love with the charming id Holmquist and through a series of amusing though artificial situations, come to the reward ot the usual light comedy hero. You will see him get himself invited house party on Long Island, where from and to which er pearls are taken that the all too thin plot may thicken. Here you will sce him implicated: in the robbing of the pearls, doubted by all but the trusting little girl who loves him and who knows when all is said and done that her Jack is Jake. And finally, ladies and gents, you will see him come forth immaculately clean in apparel as in soul, this side up with care, use no hooks. You mustn't take the story seriously. It's not a realistic film—not by a long- shot or a close-up, but it’s frothy and entertaining and very well done. Of id Holmquist) much y be said of credit. She has looks: without too much beauty to weigh her down and she plays with a nice under- standing of the technique of the sercen, and at all to envy Mr. Holt. Casson Ferguson, Adele Frank Nelson and Alex plete a cast that leaves little to be desired and the story is full of comedy situations that will keep you in good humor, “Nonenr’s Daruinc” is a misnomer. It’s a short reeler starring Baby Peggy and if she isn’t everybody's darling then nobody is anybody's darling. We've never been satisfied with any of the stories supplied Peggy. She's always more interesting than her material. We'd like to see her wrapped up in a real plot. She's an interesti as well as the most adorable little bit of humanity (Continued on page 21) good times moves one Farrington, Francis com- comicbooks.com