Judge — December 26, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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“JUDGING. ‘xe MOVIES™ HERE is always a reverse side to every joy. That of seeing “The Big Parade” is no exception. It makes the movies that come after seem unusually thin and pale and - unwholesome. So what I have to say about Cecil DeMille’s “The Road to Yesterday,” among others, should be read in the light of that fact. There is a train wreck in it that is amazingly realistic and must involve some very ingenious photog- raphy, but the cheap story-book re- construction of ye anciente tymes, the almost incessant kissing and the use of the religious motif for melo- dramatic effect still affect my diges- tion. Please pass the soda mints. M# Morray makes an alluring Parisian danseuse in “The Masked Bride.” But if I had been she I wouldn’t have fallen for the sentimental sensuality of the Amer- ican millionaire Marquis (Francis X. Bushman), who leads her to the altar. I’d have stuck by my com- pact with the Apache lover and “The Knockout” —Milton Sills well cast as a gentleman pug. “Go West”—Buster Keaton and about three hearty laughs. “Compromise” —Irene Rich deserves a better picture. “The Vanishing American”—But not the 100 per cent. American. “Little Annie Rooney"—Saccharinely yours, Mary. “A Regular Fellow” —Very funny take off on the prince business, “The Dark Angel’—A sentimental war pic- ture beautifully handled. “Souls for Satan" —So poor it’s funny. “The Midshipman”—Annapolis as it ain't. “Seven Keys to Baldpate”—Douglas Mac- Lean does this famous comedy very well. “Lights of Old Broadway"—Marion Davies in the gay life of yesteryear. “Classified” —Corinne Griffith and the three musketeers—Love, Virtue and Coincidence. __ “The Eagle”—Valentino with Russian dress- ing. “Stage Struck”—Our Gloria in engaging comedy. “Lord Jim”—Not Conrad, but worth seeing. “Stella Dallas"—Well cast drama full of flubdub. “The Big, Parade”"—The almost perfect pic- ture, Don’t miss it. stripped Mr. Marquis of his jewelry and his conceit and his smile. In other words, anything would have seemed preferable to the carnivorous caresses of the soft plutocrat. This isn’t jealousy, either. To Mix may be “The Best Bad Man,” but the best thing in the show is the foaming torrent that the villains let loose when they dynamite the dam. Except for the heroes and heroines afloat in it, it makes a hand- some stream, all white water, such as you have dreamed of fishing some day. F THE four movies herewith re- viewed the best by far is “Clothes Make the Pirate,” with Leon Errol. And that’s not extrav- agant praise. Errol, as the hen- pecked tailor who by a freak of for- tune becomes a pirate chief, is un- doubtedly funny, funny drunk and funny sober. And the climax when he impels his wife through the door- way With the toe of his boot is en- tirely satisfactory. comicbooks.com