Judge — September 20, 1924 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Merton Breaks Into the Movies by George Mitchell vRIousLy enough, Merton Gill, the young and aspiring ham actor who walked out of Mr. he wiler’s highly decorated front parlor and journeyed to Hollywood to do bigger and better things in Holly- wood has made good his threat. Successful in book and play it re- mained only for him to reach the screen for which he must have been first intended. Well, he’s done it at last and a much bigger and better picture is the result. If there is a better performance than Glenn Hunter's, I don’t know whose it is. Glenn as Merton takes his place in my mind with Barrymore as Jekyll and Hyde and a few other of those rare characterizations that all too infrequently cheer the heart of a heartless picture critic. He and Merton are one and inseparable. As the poor jealous thespian, he is alter- nately so ridiculously pathetic and comic as to take the hard baked apple in the throat of this hard boiled critic and squeeze it dry. It’s a picture you can’t afford to Iniss In the same breath I ask you to not see “His Hour.” From my view- point, “His Hour” is the kind of thing that drops the standard raised by Merton to the level from which he tried to lift it. “His Hour” is an hour and a half Tur Great Amertcan Mate—I don't know any- thing about art, but I know what I like! ra MENTAL HAZARDS ism. Somehow the story This practical scheme for making your golf club self-supporting also makes the course more sporty. too long. There isn’t anyth’ng in it to offset. the offensive voluptuous appeal. This kind of picture. to my way of thinking, will be patronized by only those whose taste in art runs to the stuff that is stopped by the police. Sabatini a few years ago wrote two novels. One was called “The Sea Hawk” and the other immediately following he called “Captain Blood.” Both quite naturally have come to the screen. Both are good screen material. “The Sea Hawk.” I think, is one of the best pictures of the year “Captain Blood” isn’t. There isn’t half the suspense, not a beauty of photography, love interest,a twentieth the histrion- isn’t as effective. There are several shots of (Continued on page 32) comicbooks.com