Judge — February 2, 1924 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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The Old Hokum Bucket (Continued from page 17) Jove-and-duty theme, was done rather dumsily. Not infrequently a fire laddie, eager to show his mettle, brushed aside the lady of his heart to plunge into the roaring hell-fire never to return. Or he was a soldier and marched away from his sweetheart to make character for himself the while his rival stayed at home to make hay. Not so, however, with the subtler Atherton. Her heroine, after a successful X-ray operation in ‘Austria, returns to youth and America, cops the prize columnist and then, stand- ing between love and duty, accepts duty | and returns to restore Austria. Well, | from what we've seen of columnists and Austria we'll say it was a difficult decision | tomake. Seriously, you must see this | picture. Miss Griffith is radiant, Tearle is forceful, Kate Lester is at her middle- | aged best and Clara Bow is delightful as the flapper. It’s one of the best | pictures of the year. 'E HAVE always believed that the underworld has it all over that strata lived in by those of us who would | have you believe that ours are the mouths in which butter was meant to melt. As a} matter of criminal record, there is so faint aline drawn between the upper-crust and | the under-bred that it closely resembles the equator for invisibility. However that | may be, and, having been a member— | though in arrears—of the upper-crust, we are willing to go on record as saying that however much these two institutions re- semble each other in the fundamentals of criminology, the underworld is infinitely more picturesque. Hence it is that when we sit in on a film of thuggery, we are thrilled to the bone in anticipation of a merry hour and a half. Such a picture is “Through the Dark” and it is also such a picture as keeps you eye-riveted to the screen. We don’t know whether you have shaking acquaintance with Boston You needn’t shrug your eye- brows, Blackie is a 100 per cent. American He’s never had the advantages of higher criminology. His father didn’t believe in college education. In consequence, he wasn't fitted for a business career. Blackie’s character was developed before the “Ten Commandments” was produced. Poor lad, he could make a living only in the broader and more direct paths of monkey business. Be that all as it may, Blackie is a real crook and is saved by the gentle hand and tender care of Colleen Moore. The pic- ture is full of life and action and played by a competent band of shadowgraphers including the humorous George Cooper, the judicial Hobart Bosworth, the suave Eddie Phillips and so forth. If you’ve had your nails manicured recently stay away or you'll eat off fifty cents’ worth of the upper-crust. In the simple act of lifting the telephone receiver from its hook every subscriber becomes the marshal of an army. At his service, as he needs them, a quarter of a million men and women are organized in the Bell System. One skilled corps of the telephone army moves to place him in talking connection with his neighbor in the next block, in the next state or across the continent. Another highly trained corps is on duty to keep the wires in condition to vibrate with his words. Still others are developing better apparatus and methods, manufacturing and adding new equipment, and installing new telephones to increase the subscriber’s realm of command. The terrain of the telephone army is the whole United States, dotted with 14,000,000 instruments, all within range of the subscriber’s telephone voice. Even in the remote places this army provides equipment and supplies. Its methods of opera- tion are constantly being improved, that each user may talk to his friends with increased efficiency. Millions of money are spent in its permanent works. Yet its costs of operation are studiously held to the minimum, that the subscriber may con- tinue to receive the cheapest as well as the best telephone service in the world. The permanent objective of the Bell System army is to meet the telephone needs of the nation—a hopeless task were not its command unified, its equipment adequately maintained and its personnel trained in the latest developments of telephone art. ‘Marshaling the Telephone Forces AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES BELL SYSTEM One Policy, One System, Universal Service They all say “DONT SHOUT’ GLOVER’S does the Business Wherever you go you hear men and women say “* There's nothing like Glover's for Dan- druff and falling hair. It surely does the business.”” For 36 years Glover's has been friends by the thousands, eethe world, If you are a dandruff su! falling out, ask for Glover's Imperial Mange Medicine at any good drug store and use exactly as directed. 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