Judge — September 13, 1924 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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bod ae odhadute qn — Mar—Don’t you think my new dress ix becoming? Sue—It may be coming, but some of it is rather late! Alas! Poor Shakespeare! L* Toxstor maintained that most of Shakespeare’s char- acters were not real. There is something in that. For instance: Hamlet is supposed to be a melancholy Dane. I have seen many Danes and Swedes on the stage, but he never impressed me as being one. The Bard of Avon should have furnished him with lines, like this: Hamlet—Yust let me see. (Takes the skull.) Yumpin’ Yimminy, I tank dis bane dos feller Yorick! I bane knew him, Horatio, and he bane some funny guy, you yust bet, ete. I think you get the idea. R. C. O'Brien Ain't Movies Marvelous? by George Mitchell HE WORLD is so full of a number of movies Lam sure we should all be as nutty as squirrels. By that, Pmean that to a poor benighted reviewer there is little hope to see ’em all, and the only chanee T have to keep faith with my readers is to take a two weeks” vacation and run madly about from picture house to picture house cateh ing up with those missed during the'r primrose days when they enjoyed first runs. I wonder if you, who sit back in your eusy-chair, lemonade and. cigar eltes within reach of either hand, ap preciate the labor t attaches to the seeing of pictures and the keeping of them separate in my mind, One of the great helps to a reviewer is the similarity of plots now in vogue. I might tell you that “The F Secret” is the usual triangy and report to you only that) Norms ‘Talmadge plays the wife, Adolphe Menjou plays the gay philanderer and Carmel Myers the siren. Whereas, in “The Secret’ Family,” the wife d by Irene Rich, the husband by n Turpin and the vamp by Nit: Naldi, and so on to cinematic infinitum, But now and then a picture like “The Iron Horse” trots along and P'v« got to watch the picture and say some- thing about it. “The Iron Horse” is a picture in which the handsome young lover is played by an engine and the girl is im- personated by two parallel rails. Of course there is little difference from the ordinary in this unusual cast of characters. The iron rails lead the engine on just as a young lady would lead on the young man in other pictures. (Continued on page 3.’) LITERARY PASTIMES English mystery story writers at- tempting to determine the difference between Dead" and “Quite Dead.” comicbooks.com