Judge — September 19, 1925 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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le eel Stuf By Carroll Carroll Foresee’n Sally of the Sawdust—Worth two visits to anyone. The Unholy Three—Shallow but thrilling crook stuff with Lon Chaney and Harry Earles. Kiss Me Again—A Lubitisch film below his usual standard. Beggar on Horseback—Fan- tastically funny stuff. Don Q, Son of Zorro—Doug- las Fairbanks in fine fettle. The Street of Forgotten Men— Good drama about Bowery beggars. The Merry Widow—One of the old favorites. (For review soon.) The Wanderer—Concerning our wandering boy’s activities. (For review soon.) The Phantom of the Opera— Lon Chaney’s latest horrors. (For review soon.) The Practically Golden Egg HE above title refers to the acting of Miss Marie Dresser in the picturiza- tion of Rex Beach’s “The Goose Woman,” a grewsome yarn of murder and frustration, squalor and the usual ultimate triumph of all that is noble and righteous. But in it Miss Dresser gives a characterization of a beaten woman, a former celebrity whom the world has forgotten, that glows with sincerity and a knowledge of what everything is all about. She is “The Goose Woman,” who once was the shining star of the Euro- pean opera world, Marie de Nardi, beautiful, talented and applauded. Somehow she has become mysteriously reduced to the meanness of the goose farm, which meanness has made it- self felt in her own nature by a series of those practically un- explained. circumstances that abound in the movies. As far as I could make out she had a baby and lost her voice. The subtitle said: “I traded mother- hood for my God-sent gift.” °o oO c=) o o o o o oO o o oO o o o °o oO o o o o o o o o oO o oO o Oo o fo) o oO co) o o o Oo o o oO o oO o o o c=) oO o o o oO o o oO oO o 00000000000000000000000 CD0D000000N0DIDDDDDDDIDDDDVDDDDDDDNDNDNNN0000 Discovered and Explorea by rok Eggnoode Mba, The ag hing Chasgdawes, 2 ei picture sgue bird “that- nests among the Senatorial Lrees_mn the Federal mountains near Wilehouse bay. Its claws are conslant}y cheiiched and wry IS a piping Screech oF Wellandimaria’ Smoke pours i- cessantly From its nostrils. Seuearshe sp which Swims in the Ger waters of Socrval Lake mm Ebve valley. pee are only four fi Vondree! Lhese Fish on the (es _ The wandering. Manuscript- @ maeulous leoking while~ coated animal covered with the Uny letters oF the Cuckoo alphabet. It poams chscorso- lately over the Edilorial pla- teau at the foot of Magazne mountain seeking the loothsome ratat Lp. The ceadly blue-nosed Gat- that jes in the low-lards oF the Stickup jungle, Ite subsists or Pumedum bul- lets and Jun powder Its bile 7S more can, pees thar cts, bark, cuit? e) How she found her way to the goose farm and where the deuce the farm is supposed to be may be revealed by Mr, Beach, but it will ever be a secret to those Sich as myself who only saw the film and don’t intend to read the book. Needless to say the former Marie de Nardi feels bitter to- ward her son, Jack Pickford, who not only will not live her dirty life, but was the cause of it. She is apparently devoid of mother love until, by a cock and bull story, which she makes up concerning a murder in her neighborhood, to get herself in the limelight again, she nearly convicts her son of killing a man. Then the goose woman turns out to be pure gold at heart and decides to have an- other try at decent living. Constance Bennett, as a young actress who loves and is loved by the juvenile Mr. Pick- ford, does better work than she’s -ever done before, es- pecially at the point where she decides to marry Jack in spite of the fact that as his mother told him, “You have no name! Your father and I were nev—” That’s a sample of the cagey titling this picture is the proud possessor of. In case you're interested to know who really committed the murder it was the doorman at the Colony Theater, or some equally ir- relevant, to the story, person. When I first saw Betty Bron- son, together with everyone else who first saw Betty Bron- son, in “Peter Pan,” I said to the Chinaman who happened to be sitting next to me: “There’s a little girl they can make an actress of if they want to.” He didn’t answer me. He was either figuring out a game to succeed mah jongg or thinking to himself, “Ah, they'll just put her in pictures. That’s all.” In either case, three cheers for the heathen Chinee. The latter is just all they’re doing. An example of this is “Not So Long Ago.” The story is of New York life in the 1860’s. My memory isn’t what it used to be so I can’t say how authentic things were, but when I want to see real specimens of American antiquity, I’ll go to the Amer- ican wing of the Metropolitan Art Gallery. When I want to be bored by a slow, uninterest- (Continued on page 26) SOOT STOUT OSES SOUT OSE TOUUNDOTINTIDOT CDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD0000000000D0D0D00000000 comicbooks.com