Judge — January 9, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Come on-help! I’ve been writing this Mennen Column for twelve years—with an average of thirty thou- sand miles a year in Pullmans on the side. I’m not quitting, but I’m not too big to call for help. Pretty nearly every man whose mind hadn’t hardened before I could work on him has tried Mennen Shaving Cream. It’s no use to argue with a man who is convinced. It wi]l take a smarter writer than J am to add to the appreciation of a shaver who, after years of suffering, has known the deep, sooth- ing joy of Mennen dermutation. You know i dermutation is the laboratory name for what we regular guys refer to as a licked beard. I can’t, and J doubt if you can, express in words that thrill of victory when, for the first } time, your mean, tough piano-wire bristles quit like a dog —just naturally collapsed so that about al] a razor had to do was to wipe off the wilted stubble. ! fi But here is my proposition: I want the } \ shavers of America to help write my stuff. At the bottom of this column, I ask a ques- tion. The best answer to that question wins | a splendid traveling bag that you couldn’t | buy for $50. Jwant quick action—thiscontest closes February 15. I'mthe judge. Contest open to al No strings or conditions except th Here’s answers are limited to 100 word: ‘Winning answer will be published i as soon as I can pick it. Ifyou don't win this contest watch for another. I may run several of them. The bag's a i beaut. I've never toted i one as good. Hand made—big, classy; will last like the Mennen it. lane (CM ensen Selermen) Here’, the * When did yo ENN | SHAvy N qand se CREA © youa Tegular Now, Contest closes February 1 ‘Write 100 words less. Watch ; | for another question in early issue. Mail your | reply co THE MENNEN COMPANY, Jim Henry | Contest, 383 Central Avenue, Newark, New Jersey. Vechten, will be wise and the original story. woman of fifty. what naughty. HOSE who have read that some- but essentially wise and charming, book, “The Tattooed Countess,” by Carl Van interested, and maybe surprised, to learn that “. Woman of the World,” the movie adapted from it, is also essentially charming. Not at all naughty—heaven and Will Hays for- A been taken with You will remem- ber that the countess in that was a In the picture, to suit the talents of Pola Negri and | Madre de dios! attorney himself. official. the popular taste, she is no more than half that age, and such a siren! And you will re- member that in the book her descent upon the little Iowa town took place in the late nineties; in the picture it takes place to-day. rally, therefore, instead of being warned by the dowager leader of small town society to mend her ways, she is threatened by the district Quite natu- The scenario writer had sense enough to realize that in the intervening generation the taboos of Rotaria had been written into the statutes and made | Well, love conquers all, of course, | and leads to the altar, but the process | has its high spots. The réle of | the district attorney, played by | Holmes Herbert, is psychologically | sound and excellently cast, and the setting as a whole is honest and highly | amusing. for the alluring Pola! And what a background | I THE story invelved in “Time, | the Comedian,” were anything sovomon EONSTEIN but cheap melodrama, the inter- polations of the clownish figure rep- The help you would like to have in malcing out your income-tax return. resenting Time would be infinitely annoying. As it is they serve as an ingenious sauce to veil the poverty of the fare. Time first appears as a pigmy Pierot shinning up and down the swinging pendulum of a giant clock. Like Alice in Wonderland he expands to life size or shrinks to a Lilliputian at will, floats through the air or drops from the sky, serves as scrivener or usher, and unseen, of course, to the characters in the drama, constantly mocks their pas- sions and pains. As I say, if the story were worth a tinker’s dam you would up and kill him. But under the circumstances you call him brother. Curiously enough I can find no mention in the bill of the actor who takes the part, so I'll be jiggered if I name any of the others. ust what the title, “The Golden Cocoon,” has to do with the story is only one of the mysteries about this picture. For instance, the “Eastern University” to which Molly Shannon (Helene Chadwick) is admitted enjoys a setting of Spanish architecture and eucalyptus trees. Where can it be? And the villain of the piece is the professor of economics. He is by turns comedian, lover, jilter, the cheapest kind of political henchman, and finally, and with great suddenness, hero. How does he do it, and with such a subject? Even the hero, Gregory Cochran Hunt y Gordon), falls for Mollie with a thump that is not only inexplicable but nerve shattering. One should be warned about such things. By the way, Gregory, who is rich and handsome, has an ancient negro manservant. Could he be the c-c-co-coon referred to? Lecocg— eucud HUGHES FREUD 18 comicbooks.com