Judge — November 22, 1924 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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

SPEEDING UP CHESS Why not employ, in our match games, time clock pieces guaran leed to explode if not moved crery fire minutes? TWO CELLULOID CLOWNS by George Mitchell HEN a clown makes love to By all odds “He” is the better a woman she thinks he’s offering. Truly a fine picture, making a fool of her. When | a man makes love to a woman he | knows he’s making a fool of himself. splendid such fine in the nam ed by a cast including ers as Lon Chaney » part, the lovely Norma So much has been said about the Shearer as Consuelo, John Gilbert as | wisdom of the man it takes to make Benzano, Tully Marshall as the out | a fool that it scems foolish for me to at the elbow Count Mancini and repeat it. Tet me add only that Mare MeDermott as the woman love is a foolish business if you take cating Baron. it foolishly. Women take it seri- ously. You can’t make faces at the women you're making love to with- out having your face slapped. Of “He Who Gets Slapped” will go down in sereen history as one of the (Continued on page + course the clown has the laugh on her in eis a long run), because he can go on making love to other women and the other fellow can’t without having his face slapped. ‘To sum it up the clown may make fa innume the other fellow who marric the long run (and marri -s at and be slapped by able women but a husband may be slapped by one woman only and that, as you know, would soon become monotonous. By a strange coincidence the two most important motion pictures of | the week in New York have to do with clowns. TI wcha Guitry’s play, “Deburau,” renamed for the s “The Lover of Camille,” turing Monte Blue, and “He Who Slapped,” screened, strangely enough, under the title given it by Andreyev. Wire—My word—what a lot of static! Odd and Interesting Da you know— That centipedes grow confused when they try to put their best. foot forward? 8. B.C. That stove-pipes make excellent collars for giraffes? That tropical animals sometimes run short of b; s, but they never burst into song about it? That the hare lost the race to the tortoise because he was summoned to traffie court for speeding? That elephants accept peanuts from perfect strangers because they believe every little bit helps: That porcupines never hold petting parties? Horace Wood mans sae “Naw!” muttered the fourth-rate pugilist, as he got his 486th consecu- tive wallop in the jaw, “this penny a pound profit ain't what it’s cracked up to be!” Rd Whiz—How did you find out she carried a flask? Bang—Oh, it leaked out. tos Mab jongg pla in Cincinnati. have organized ‘or self defense? 19