Judge — September 22, 1923 — page 24: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Drawn by HERMAN PALMER, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Martin and son at their summer cottage, Hollywood. CUPID SCREENS A MILLION DOLLARS T LEAST once in every man’s life kissing occupies too much of his thoughts. We are not going to tell you all we know about kissing. You might get an idea that we weren’t devot- ing enough time to our work. Be that as it may, as we are getting on in years and wisdom is cluttering up the great open spaces in our brain cells, we are sure that kissing should be confined to the immediate family. Away from the fire- and by fireside we mean of course own fireside—kisses are expensive. Take the kiss in “The Cheat,” for instance, the latest Pola Negri piece at the Rivoli last week. Miss Negri is a personable young woman. One of her kisses undoubtedly is worth $10,000 if you're gaited that way, but without raking our brain we can think of almost 10,000 better w of killing $10,000, and our mind isn’t entirely centered on our thirst. You mustn't get the idea that we don’t like Miss Negri. We do. But as a s out of our class. egri has found in “The Cheat” her most sympathetic réle and, gen- erally, the play is well cast’ and well acted. Charles De Roche is picturesque, Jack Holt manly. We can’t see why anybody can complain. ‘There is plenty of acti Don’t be frightened, we are not going to tell you the story. We've forgotten it. The kiss scene did that to us. It put us in a reminiscent mood that took us back over the years. Heigh, ho! There we go again! We remember. But to snap out of it, you'll like “The Cheat” and you'll agree with us, we hope, in finding the Negri fast Ameri- canizing herself. And, if you're one of the more kissed against than kissing sex, you'll adore her gowns. As a matter of fact, we know very little about women’s wear. Practically “nothing more than we know what we like, but Negri loses no opportunity to doll herself up in things yor er seen before. ‘Then ag The Cheat” should be seen by all women. There’s a moral in it for them. We love to point out morals for women. We have a comfort- able feeling that we're helping them and thus doing our bit by Life. “Let's try to-day,” we say to ourself every morning, “to make one of the sexes better.” by George Mitchell And the moral is? Oh yes— In married life two is company: Three is a mess. “To THE Last M: at the Rialto, is one of those Romeo and Juliet com- ple ‘The kind of love story that brings to the surface all the cupidity of C upid. The little ra: undoubtedly has a sense of humor that is highly exasperating to the parties of the first and second parts and, frequently, the party of the third part. One of the lowest down of his tricks is to shoot an arrow through the hearts of two young people whose families are shooting bullets at one another. In such a case there seems to be but one solution and that is to clean ‘em all out— all but the two youngsters. We can’t quite understand why Cupid —a really decent little chap when he’s in good humor—will have the whole State of Kentucky shot up just because Richard Dix falls in love with Lois Wilson and hates the rest of her family. Feuds, of course, have always been. Probably Cain and Abel started them. We don’t know. We're not ing they did. But feuds are not ne We re- member our own case. Our courtship ranks with the greatest battles of history. The only friend we had in her family was one of the most bloodthirsty brindle bull pups that ever tore the seat of ‘a man’s trousers. And at that his friend- ship cost us half our salary for sweets. something about courtship c it a dangerous sport. It is only a man of great daring and unlimited courage who believes in divorce. “I'll try anything once,” should apply to courtship, for it’s much more difficult to get on with her people than it is even with your own. “To the Last Man” is full of moun- tains and feuds and gun play and heroism and thrills and puts Richard Dix in the unkillable class. If you like good hokum and all that sort of garbage, see “To the Last Man.” We liked it. It took our mind from our work. Any picture that can do that is a man’s best friend. I Savomy Jane” ‘lil Dan Cupid again takes a hand and does his best to stack the cards. Another feud is 22 staged and a lot more shooting irons are introduced. The little beggar just can’t resist the smell of powder, whether it be the perfumed variety that is used for my lady's face or the kind that is blown face to face between gentlemen in It pleases Cupid to curl a satiric lip in this story of the Sierras in “49. He doesn’t show his till the hero is on his way to the gallows tree. At_ that moment he unslings his bow, fits an arrow to the string and bingo! Maurice Flynn and Jacqueline Logan are hit clean through. Maurice has been suspected of killing a man and stealing a horse. Evidently gentlemen who lived in the great open spaces in “49 would have let Maurice off on the first count; but for stealing a horse? Never! The Westerner thought more of horses than men. Well, why not? They had few good horses in those d. and a great many bad men, if you believe all you see on the screen. It seems to us that the West was inhabited by men whose sole occupation, when they weren't. playing kyards and drinking rum, was shooting off all the men and saving the women and horses. We got a kick out of the scenery. Giant redwoods, gorgeous gorges, great long vistas and always gun play. And y time a man grew tired shooting down his fellow-man, ‘lil Cupid got them all up on their fe gain and filled their guns and egged them on to more shooting. You can't tell us he isn’t: influenced by reason of his being born with a bow and arrow in his hands and a quiver of arrows slung over his shoulder. The little devil loves a fight and is never happier than when he has stirred up two men over a girl. The girl, to our way of thinking, is well worth the fight. Jacqueline Logan may call on us any time she is in distress. We are bum with a gun, but we'll do our best. Maurice Flynn, we are afraid, is going to take a lot of our admirers from us. He's better looking and he’s got us on the smile. We reluctantly admit it, but he’s good. If you like Westerns 5 “Salomy Jane.” It’s well m ful, and Cupid is there, quiver. ou'll enjoy Je, picture- bow, arrow and comicbooks.com Yo An An Th Yo An Yo Do Sor WI Bu Of fisl get you