Judge — May 24, 1924 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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SAW a picture in which one of \ V the best actors on the stage takes the screen. He Alfred Lunt. The picture is called “Second Youth” and the about the whole business is best for all concerned— and that’s that. We saw what is called a “filler” other night while waiting for the picture, which is called “Bluff name of the filler we refer to, thank the gods, is forgotten by us. It had to do with a bevy of frogs—we hope we may anything as bad again. On “Leather Pusher,” liked so much wished the least saic never see the same bill we saw a the titles of which we better than the picture we actors knocked one another out and let the type tell the rest of the story. And then came the feature, “Bluff,” entered into by Agnes Ayres and Tony Moreno, both of better material. Speaking of features—as people will « themselves as little whom are deserving of whose features pled as they do their acquaintances—features k louder than they should. Not infrequently does one find in. the reclers of a motion picture or the cinema, as the better reviewers term them, much hetter material than in the big picture. But again what's the use? You pay your money and you get the same break you do anywhere else in the market unless you know what going to two- you're see. swspapers and magazines engage men and women whose business it is to keep you informed of what is gomg on bad or indifferent it is, any attention to what we than the child of your bosom. Men, women and children sk us if they ought to see Bill Hart in nger Jim McKee,” and we tell them to avoid it as they would measles; they go—if only to spite us—and when they next meet us, they've been laying for us since they saw the picture, saying to themsely “T mustn't forget to tell that big boob what a rotten critic he is.” and how good, but do you pay think? Not iy more They meet us in a crowd of people who like us and they shout: “Say, I saw Bill Hart in ‘Singer Jim McKee” and I think It’s one of the best. pie- seen this season.” That's what the great American cinema loving public thinks of the movie critie or any other kind of critic. you're crazy. tures I've Dew Daron and Jack Holt, who have been through countless hazard- ous adventures together in more bobbed- hairbreadth than you could shake a pair of scissors at, are again at it in a picture called “The Wolf.” This is so full of plot and counterplot that at times it becomes as difficult to follow as your wife in a shopping crush. escapes Lone FADING OUT by George Mitchell JUDGE'S NON-EDUCATIONAL FILMS WHERE AND HOW WE GET OUR LACE CURTAINS; AND IF SO Wey 2 N THE HILL CouNTRy oF NORTHERN HYGENIA AHE LACE FRUIT 1S ln) PLUCKED FROM THE over" HANGING BOUGHS OF 9} Ip) THE HOKUM (REE By ANTISEPTIC Natives. [9 O- FRUIT IS y COOKED IN WHITE- HOT OVENS OVER LUKE-WARM FIRE UNTIL IT 1S REAT STEEL. ROLLERS IN THE FouNDRy ROLL IT INTO ENORMOUS WHITE SHEETS, HEY ARE x ACiea= ED OVER TO THE EX- PERT FINISHERS WHO BITE -HE HOLES IN THEM, ONLY “Wwo-TeoTi- ED MEN ARE EMPLOYED |g] For His DELICATE Work <p AE FINISHED CURTAIN, as clear as a who's got. the The continuity is about game of button, button, button, entered into by a dumb and blind players. with the plans of the L group of deaf, It has to do S. Government, band of French —as the titles have it, which are wanted by crooks, or apache a pack of wolve: Jack Holt. gets mixed up in the intrigue until Dorothy his trail, when, at sight of her, he gets a rush of virtue to the fingers and turns straight. One of the most extraordinar working on his own, Crosse: irplane chases that ever was filmed in a studio is shot in this picture—all but the pattern on the During all of which studio rug being seen. Jack-be-nimble hops from plane to plane as easily as you or could, You'll probably enjoy the zle—trying to discov picture puz- who's who and and not till the end will you get and not then. t is an all-star one though the picture is not. W: sav in on Bebe Daniels the other day in her first. starring picture. Bebe has traveled fast since th ly days when she was one of the niftiest pebbles on the beach. Then through a period with Harold Lloyd, then to lead- ing lady with all the best leading men on now the sky is the limit. She's up on a pink-tipped cloud, a new > filmament. ‘The picture is called “Daring Youth.” though there is not a lot of daring in it. The idea is this. matter how much you are in love, don’t expect to be happy ry day in the week if, when you are married, you live together. So, ing to Bebe, slip a blanket clause in the marriage that will couple of days apart. the screen, star in the mov accord- license give you a Shakespeare had ars ago which has “Familiarity breeds Another application of the same idea is “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” Well, Bebe her liberty and Norman Kerry, ries he let her he us to say: Let a‘woman have her way and she'll lose it. Well, that’s what Norman does. He lets her have her way. She loses it and he gets his. It’s a nice little story—but we hope Bebe will do better with the next. this notion some been often quoted as contempt.” insists on who mar- knows enough about women to ve her own way—which prompts invited to the opening of y Pickford’s “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” but couldn't go, thus missing one of the biggest social events in little ol’ New York. If you have never been to a big opening you've got to do it. Everybody in the films under the weight I their jewels is there. ‘The picture will be reviewed later in these columns. comicbooks.com