Judge — January 5, 1924 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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a 7 wantin tures. ‘Millions for big sets but not one damned cent for real- ism,’ they shout. We have only put ‘A Woman of Paris’ and “Anna Christie’ up against ‘Ashes’ of Vengeance’ and ‘Under the Red Robe, | to show you what we mean. C'est ga! “Let's have a lot of outdoors. Nature’s grand; much more beautiful than all the canvas and paint that was made and infinitely more expansive and less expen- where you can work tumes. Something histori stitute history for hysteria. ered Wagon’ was such a picture—outs doors, costumes, drama, history, big and sweeping and educational as well. ‘Then why not something from Young America? The pre-revolutionary period or the Revolutionary. Why hasn’t some one filmed ‘Hugh Wynne’? And why not the Lewis and Clark period? As picturesque, historic, dramatic, and colorful as the French Revolution and peculiarly our own. C'est cal “Let’s have another ‘Down to the Sea in Ships.” Here we are with we don’t know how many oceans lying idle about us. No rent to pay on them. Waving away in fair weather and foul, literally sitting up and begging to be pic romantic as anything in the world and infinitely more beautiful than any fake lake that ever sprinkled the floor of a studio interior. Give us another big sea picture, C'est cal “Let’s do away with the close up. Few s have more educational pictures. | actresses can stand them, And we can’t | stand those who can’t. C’est ca! “Let’s have some good thrillers, with trick camera stuff. ‘The camera most anything in double exposure and cutting. Then why not make use of a medium that so perfectly fits the movi Something like ‘Puritan Passions.’ Why hasn’t anyone done Howard Pyle’s ‘A Modern Aladdin’? “Let's have some good short comedies. ‘The kind of thing Sidney Drew and his wife used to do. w the ‘Hall Room Boys’ the other evening and haven’t been able to raise our head since. No wonder our insane asylums have long waiting lists. “Let's legitimately employ the slow motion in pictures where the action war- rants, as in ‘Hollywood.’ Let’s cut down the length of fist fights to sane propor- tions. We often wonder what Dempsey must think of our screen pugilists who are knocked down and out often enough in one fight to cover a whole ring cart and then are able to get up and carry the | heroine clear across the whole State of Texas. “Then let’s have a lot more intelli- gence. You'd be surprised to know how many people would go to the mov they (the movies, of course) improved. Let’s get more realism in direction. Let's put old Hoakum on the shelf for a year and see what happens.” We had grown quite excited. Miss Nineteen-twenty-four slid down from her perch, climbed up our front fagade and whispered in our long ear. “You don’t look so good yourself, dearie,” said she, and walked out on us! Priceless Service Despite fire or storm or flood, a telephone operator sticks to her switchboard. A lineman risks life and limb that his wires may continue to vibrate with messages of business or social life. Other telephone employees forego comfort and even sacrifice health that the job may not be slighted. True, the opportunity for these extremes of service has come to comparatively few; but they indicate the devotion to duty that prevails among the quarter-million telephone workers. The mass of people called the public has come to take this type of service for granted and use the telephone in its daily business and in emergencies, seldom realizing what it receives in human devotion to duty, and what vast re- sources are drawn upon to restore service. It is right that the public should receive this type of tele- phone service, that it should expect the employment of every practical improvement in the art, and should insist upon progress that keeps ahead of demand. Telephone users realize that dollars can never measure the value of many of their telephone calls. The public wants the service and, if it stops to think, cheerfully pays the moderate cost. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES BELL SYSTEM One Policy, One System, Universal Service Latest 1924 model—The rubberoid roadster. 23 comicbooks.com