Judge — November 15, 1924 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Commotion Pictures hy George Mitchell O Norma Talmadge is the Only Woman O ) ¢ b in “The Only Woman” \ ey (3 onma TALMADGE is perhaps SHUESNG, | the only woman who could . | get away with the impossible task set_on the sha shoulders of “The Only Woman.” rma is the only child of a man defaulted with larg who » finan- cial interests. The man who holds him in the hollow of his hand is Eugene O'Brien's father. Et ne is mnial souse. And his father Norma to marry Eugene to a pe force: make a man of him and Norma, as | have above suggested, is the only woman who could do it Most of the women of my sereen acquaintance would in these days of open-hearted drinking join I drink for drink, but Norma settles down to her work like the loyal little woman she is. It isn’t y to head a drinking- talented man off these days. Before Prohibition was in vo; 1e there were fewer temptations. ‘There doesn’t - sm to be ys to nything nowai ‘upy a man’s mind or hand but a ass of something. Ther in the stuff we used to drink would take a man more time than the day afforded to get lit up in. So you see Gene’s job is: easy and being easy UNCLE TOM’S CABIN | Norma’s is correspondingly difficult, As Cecil de Mille would produce a Saturday night in the But she does it and has the satisfac. bathroom of Uncle Tom's hovel. | tion of spending the rest of her life riding about town with Gene cated wagons ever built to take the high- Cultivating a Little Dirt in “The upon one of the gilt-edgest water way of virtue. Garden of Weeds” Tr who sow their wild) oats should pull up the weeds I know this is a pretty bum meta- phor but it isn’t any more obvious than the story of “The Garden of | | Weeds” in which Betty Compson | plays the réle of a young lady who | plays with fire. She doesn’t get her | fingers burned because | Well, it’s like this | She’s a pretty good little chorus girl; has an understudy part and all's swell. But Rockliffe Fellowes owns the show and taking a liking to Betty's physical equipment, asks her to split a plate of split-pew soup with him. Betty, of course, being Mortorist—I'll have to get some new glasses. I tool: that statue for a well brought up chorus girl, refuses. a pedestrian. (Continued on page 30)