Judge — June 21, 1924 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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MOVING PICTURES Judge Recommends Harold Lloyd, one of the funni Girt Siy est funniest pictures. Tue Titer or Bacpap hanks and The true. men on the screen, in one of Douglas Fair- frabian Nights come 1 movie masterpiece History centers, introducing Paul Revere, the hundred the in- AMERICN for one per ventor of cross-country moving picture ride, Donorny Vexxox or Havposx Hate Our Mary ina picturesque Elizabethan drama. Beautifully produced and acted. Tur introducing all ten. Tex Commaxpuents—.t big show, First appearance of “The Sea Hawk” I" 1s difficult to speak in moderate t of so glorious a picture as The Sea Hawk.” It gets off to a rathe and some valuable time is wasted around ris. slow start the Cornish countryside, but onee it hits its stride it is quite the most thrilling sea picture [have ever seen, the yethan costume story, In the beginning sis the somewhat conventional E relieved by occasional Hashes of beautiful But after Sir Oliver ghaied at the insti arine photography ilian is shar of his weak and wicked brother Lionel, After that there is ion things begin to hum, action The im realism to the picture of the slaves aplenty. galley scenes are superb. ‘There is chained to their benches, their tanned. leathery, naked straining under the beating sun, that can- hodies sweating and veved by mere w s. Thave bout rs. but not be heen reading galleys and galley ves for ye never. until TP saw “The Sea Hi realization of what it all meant. Milton Sills, as the unfortunate knight who later becomes the notorious Sakr-el Bahr, the Sea Hawk, the Scourge of the Sea, has at last found a part chat: suits him perfectly. He is impressively malev- olent as the Moslem wk. did T have so vivid at physically adequate. [E did not care pi ticularly for Enid Bennett as Rosamund Godolphin, the heroine, but. that. is en- tirely a matter of personal taste. Miss Bennett's many admirers will no doubt disagree with mv Wallace Beery as Jasper Leigh gave a performance that deserves special men- tion, To Mr. Beery was allotted the task of supplying the comedy relief and he did delightfully and entertainingly Other actors who might: be xcellently selected cast are Lloyd Hughes. Frank Currier, and William Collier, Jr T have had occasion before to speak of the vast amount of rese into the making ‘There it’ most named in an rch that enters Ya pieture such as this kinds of | English. Spanish and Moorish ships, correct, [am told, in every detail. are various They are most im- pressive. On several occasions the audi ence was moved to enthusiastic applaus: by the sheer beauty: of the photography. Any boy who ever, in bis imagination, trod the quarter-deck of a ship and scoured the main ins seareh of mish galleons (and Ladmit that Lwas one of them), will find, in this picture, all his dreams come to life. thrilling bat- irls, and above There is everything Juels, beautiful slave glorious epie sweep and bigness lis is the kind of story that affords the tion picture its finest te Sea Hawk" is superbly One film Hi worth a thousand of the Island country club school of cinema drama. opportunity. a superb picture, done, this is mig “Code of the Sea” T KE photography in and superb cloud effects. » some splendid) stretches of “Code of the Sea.” But the story fails to live up to the heights achieved by And Rod La Roque. the young sailor, suffering from an inherited cowardice due to the fact that his father yed the coward at a critical mo- the scenery. once pl ment, does not help the story along very much, NN T SEA HAWK Other Offerings T this trivial and unimportant. rest of week's offerings are Perhaps it is not quite fair to the producers to sub ject the picture stories to too severe atest. In New York City there are four large theaters that change their bills weekly. ‘Phis means that in these theaters approximately two hundred new motion pictures are shown each year, Tt must be quite apparent that it is no easy task for that bright, clever, to find two hundred: stories. or matter, twenty. that are original and dramatic. Consequently, the moving picture scenario has become much a standardized product as the Ford And like the illustrious flivver, art is subordinated to quantity production. “Miami” for standardized product. It depict the high life of onr gilded plutoc- racy at Fh | replete with cocktails, jazz parties and The finds a button from her instance, is just such a attempts to as popular resort. TL is such accessories negleeted wife husband's coat and promptly suspects him of infidelity Tn last week's picture it was the imprint of rouged lips upon the husband's cheek that started the trouble. The week be- fore it was the scent of perfume upon the lapel of his coat. “Pie Maniaace Curar™ is one of those South Sea Island This time the triangle consists of the dissolute pictures millionaire husband, his unhappy wife. who phinges overboard in mid-sea, and the sentimental missionary upon whose island the wife is cast ashore. A young woman whom Edo not remember having Laska Winter ve cellent performance as ani seen befor an eN- girl in love with the missionary *Maytime y eal comedy that owed whatev as a mildly pleasing musi- distine- tion it possessed to a charming score. As a motion picture without the music it is feeble. The deals with three successive generations of family “Women Who Give” is the old story of the girl and the lighthouse of the vint of 1898, There fishermen going out to fish, for those who like pictures of fishermen going out to fish. rather tedious and story ssome good pictures « Newman Levy. comicbooks.com