Judge — December 20, 1924 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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AMUSEMENTS OPENING JAN. 1 NEW YEAR’S NUMBER of JUDGE Full of Laughs ONE WEEK ONLY! Best Seats Fifteen Cents BY POPULAR DEMAND! Another CROSSWORD PUZZLE NUMBER of JUDGE OPENS JAN. 10 at the NEWSSTAND COMING JAN. 24 MIDSUMMER NUMBER of JUDGE 20 Degrees Warmer Inside THEATER NUMBER OPENS FEB. 21 With an All-star Cast COMING MARCH 14 INDOOR SPORTS NUMBER EXTRA SPECIAL ATTRACTION! JUDGE'S ANNUAL ADVERTISING NUMBER Will Be Brought Out About the 2d Week in April Watch for It! Hostess Doctor Griffith This Day Our Daily Film (Continued from page 20) I have na love story on the screen as naive as a stalk of celery. never so tenderly handled and, strange as it may seem, it grips more power- fully than all the lip-biting contests that have ever been contended by Arab sheik or U.S. flapper. It’s just that that Griffith has achieved in this remarkable picture. He has reached the height of forcefulness by the simplest methods. His thunder is the silence of night. His terror is that of suspense. The silent in- action of the mob of hunger-driven thugs that lay in wait for the young lovers’ harvest of potatoes drives you up out of your chair. Tf they had waited another ten minutes, I'd have run down the aisle and slashed Aren't you fond of Christmas pudding, Doctor? Not very—but I'm deeply indebted to it! —Passing Show (London) the screen. You may not like “Isn't Life Wonderful.” You may find it sad. But you will find it beautiful. Nothing that I have ever seen equals the truth of Carol Dempster’s and Neil Hamilton’s characterizations. And as for the picture itself, I unqualifiedly put it downas the finest picture I have seen. Yow might say that “Sundown” is a good picture. But you'd be telling an awful whopper. ‘Take the cows out of it and the whole thing evaporates like milk. ‘There isn’t anything else inthe picture but a few indifferent actors who wander about the great open spaces as thoroughly at sea as the cows that watch them. T’d gladly tell you the story.only there isn’t one. Yes, there is, and it’s this, briefly: Fifty-five thousand cows go to Texas. There “Will you come and play bridge, sir? “Sorry. I don't play.” “Great Scott! Then whatever made you join a golf club?” London Mail ae comicbooks.com