Judge — January 2, 1926 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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GING, ‘he, MOVIES* | i} | | i] | ; | | “The Knockout” —Milton Sills well cast as | a gentleman pug. | | “Go West"—Buster Keaton and about three L 1 hearty laughs. ‘ “Compromise” —Irene Rich deserves a bette ti ‘ a4 HE two things you are apt to picture F a ‘ EVEN SINNERS” is one of the remember after seeing Rudolph most infuriating of all the Schildkraut in “His People” is “The Vanishing American"—If it were only movie dramas let (1) that Mr. Schildkraut is well cast the hundred percenter! and hasn't forgotten to act, and (2 that forgiveness, whatever the Bible has to say on the subject.can be much loose since Will Hays wore a bib. Up to a certain point it maintains a splendid level of comedy surprise, with characters and setting of decided interest and. in- “Little Annie Rooney—Saccharinely yours, Ma too easy and cheap. And, oh yes! “A Regular Fellow —Very funny take off on genuity. Then it flops, as only there is a prize fight in the picture the prince business movies can flop, in a rush of tears and such as there never was on land or repentance that wouldn’t fool Eddie “The Dark Angel”—A sentimental war pic- G A sea. a oo. ture beautifully handled. suest himself. The scene is laid in the New York The Seven Sinners are crooks, all ghetto. Schildkraut takes the part “Souls for Satan” —So poor it's funny. bent on rifling a temporarily empty of an elderly Jewish immigrant who Long Island mansion of a cache of is ambitious that his two boys should “The Midshipman—Annapolis as it ain't. jewelry. Their efforts to double shine in the learned professions. cross one another and the complica- “The Eagle” alentino with Russian dress Morris fulfills this ambition by be- ing tions that ensue, including some art- coming a rising young lawyer. But ful love-making, promise one of the Sammy flouts it by becoming a box “Stage Struck” —Our Gloria as a humble but most diverting stories ever screened. fighter, and some kid, too! So the comical hasheslinger. But then, for no reason whatever, father drives Sammy from home and unless it is that movies must be centers his affections on Morris. Ge hee ete th Reales mush, the upper lips of these hard- But Morris leaves anyway, and to ened burglars begin to quiver and marry a wealthy girl and advance his “sulla Dallas""—A story of sentimentalized virtue gets ‘em. That in itself is a fortunes, he repudiates his parents. snobbery well acted greater crime than any they planned — | It is the warm-hearted Sammy who, to commit. despite rough treatment, comes to “The Big Parade” —Too good to miss, if you can get a seat | | their rescue. Final! | A cconpinc to the program “We i Morris in the midst of his high life Phe Road to Yesterday”—Melodramatic Moderns” is “adapted from associations and throws him bodily hokum with a bit of theosophy and a lot of Israel Zangwill’s novel.” I wonder at his father’s feet. There follows love. if Mr. Zangwill would recognize it. forgiveness all "round at a nickel a “The Mashed Bride I haven’t read his novel, but of all irow. Murray picks the — sei sational and extravagant | efforts to point a moral the picture, Best Bad Man"”—Tom Mix rescues the it seems to me, takes the brown iain, but never mind, derby. You mi I forgot to say that Sammy is sweet on an Irish lass whose mother “7 (Dja heroine lives across the areaway have read in your ever see “Abie’s Irish Rose?”) Also tice SV he: the Fest Yeon i t°G youth one of those books of etiquette that there are lots of worse movies s'Lmake bis lege behave uaa antaaiies farce in which children are warmed against | than “His People”; I wish there such bizarre behavior as picking the (Continued on page 26) LANDLORD Groce BYTEHAR aaccr ~* FEE comicbooks.com