Judge — July 19, 1924 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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- 0 1 Judge Recommends Girt Sny—Harold Lloyd in the funniest picture of the season. Tue Titer ov Bacpap batic Doug as an aero frabian Knight Amerios Tistory of our country in many reels Tue Sea awn .f thriller, beautifully done. Dorormy Viewsox or Hanpos Hat The World's Sweetheart in an entertain- ing costume play. “The Enemy Sex” Fier now aid then some serions in- 4 dividual breaks out in some equally periodical into. a ned and on about the movies, and the mais rotten right and his ved with us dise avors to show why and wh much maligned cinema « Usually he is. entirely remarks are re well-bred approval by the serious groups of little Uvnkers that derive their opinions from Unfortunately the future of the motion picture the highbrow periodicals lies not with the lofty browed individ who dowt know Gloria Swanson from Baby Peggy, but with the millions of Democrats, Republicans, Rotarians, Elks those whom my erudite neighbor, Mr. Nathan, class In other sally describes as hoi polloi. words, the cinema dr: attempts to be tl { strange contradic in terms—a popular art. ‘The result is a commodity assembled after the fashion made famous by the Detroit. The motion picture ri beloved Henry of and lowlic meanest ents an expenditure of a considerable fortune, and the | feature films run well over a million dol- Jars. A pieture that is not witnessed hy a million people is a Hop. Under these circumstances it is hardly strange that the adventurous spirit: that rt of the essence of the artist is lacking in the motion picture industry. afford to take There are no little theaters. is pi The producers cannot chances. ho small experimental groups wherein 1 play around. Each week acertain number of film flivvers must roll out of the plants, the tanks filled with gas, guaranteed to hit on all four. the pioneer With these remarks I may now: pro- ceed with a discussion of the current output. Phe Enemy Sex” is taken from Owen Johnson's novel, he Salamander.” As L remember the book itwas rather poor stuff and quite unworthy of Mr. Johnson. Since thal time ther a numberof books and pictur the same sed upon theme the virtuous flapper Who leads men on to a certain point, and then disereetly refuses to pass the ven point. Consequently. Phe Enemy Sex” has been anticipated in many respects, and has Jost what hiek it may have had. “Those Who Dance” TT" is a melodrama dealing with boot- tribute ut industry lo another. On the whole it legging - a from one is good entertainment, and is worth There that was quite distressing. Tt was ex- tremely painful to witness the manufac- ture of my favorite beverages under lamentably conditions. If the author had any propaganda in mind Unsanitary ectively. write he put it over most e Upton Some Sinclair should another “Jungle revealing conditions in the hard liquor trade. Our national thirsts should not be contaminated. “The Recoil” Tits picture is saved from bring a total loss by the excellence of its photog- Deauville and tually taken in those “te should opularity of the raphy. ‘The seenes in Monte Carlo were which f much to the places, contribute picture. As a travelog © Recoil” is a success. Asa film drama it is mildly Phe story tells of the rough diamond Interesting experience of a named Kent who had in South Afric he wreaks upon his unfaith ful wife The plot ba by Rex Beach. 1 Ingenious. amassed a fortune and the revenge doupen a novel rather entertaming ane “The Code of the Wilderness” Wwe V first heard that this preture Was taken from a book called The Range Boss.” Llooked forward with antic bout the life manufacturer ipation to secir picture and adventy Nnd after Howhy not The stove manu fucturers as a class have heen sadl neglected by our film anthors. 1 ean hardly reeall a picture in the years during whieh E have been attending the silent drama in whieh a stove manufac turer received his duc “The Code of the Wilderness out to be one of turned those old-fashioned the hind old Ed Booth and Larry Barrett used to play in, during vet T shouldi’t be surprised if the picture is an western pictures the early days of the movies. In old one that the Vitagraph people stum- Iled across in their arret “Fight and Win” me OC ann WIN? thought: Why producers put the Horatio A T remember those suggested — this dot the movic hs of upon the screen? As Immortal ow re dr., masterpieces of my carly youth they possessed all the ele- Phere ments of a successful film drama. was always the poor but honest youth who stops the runaway at the risk of his life, and saves the beautiful daughter of the inevitable » theft of the pocketbook and suspicion thrown upon the virtuous hero rich squire. ‘There was the mortgage, L and, in the end. virtue triumphant . Win” differs from the r formula in detail. but it belong the same school of literature. ‘Phe hero, played by that accomplished actor, Mr cht and Jack Dempsey. is an ex-pugilist who has settled down to blacksmithing to. p! Mother, apparentls of Mr. Dempsey’s half a There are some his aged mother. had never he: million dol r purses good fight scenes in the picture Concerning Mr. Dempsey’s acting it is only fair lo say that he tried awfully hard. Newaan Levy.