Judge — February 6, 1926 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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“stella Dallas” acting wasted on se Excellent directing and wental tripe. “The Big Parade”—Haven't you seen it yet? Go at once! “The Road to Yesterday"—-Eluborate piffie. | “The Masked Bride”—The { ai Murray in an apache drama, il I wonpber if the ravishmentof inn She Rest Rad Mon” Tom Mix: does Mis ng Mac cent females is quite as prevalent worl as the movies would have us be- “Clothes Make the Pirate"—Leon Errol lets “We Moderna’ —Colleen Moore, a Zeppelin crash and a moral. mirror to life. Ask Will Hays. | ° e pictures viewed In the last three picture Woman of the World ¢ seductive | I counted six such attempts, two Negri visits Main street. Very good. a} apiece; and the honors see med fairly “Time, the Comedian” —Time symbolized as | evenly divided as between shaggy, a clown. Thumbs down, brutish men of the hairy ape variety “The Golden Cocoon—Commonplace melo- drama. and smooth, polished and cunning scoundrels, or men-about-town. Ap- parently the propensity y lurk under almost any masculine shirt bosom, red flannel or full dress. All A tee tee “Lady Windermere’s Fan"—Osear Wilde that is needed to excite it is a blond ala Hollywood. b af Better than the opera of the Bill Hart at bis best. Ri 1 with a baby face. . . “A for Cinderella” —Betty Bronson in “Mannequii Fanny Hurst's a picture that retains all of Barrie's cbarm. story, for which Liberty awarded her “Blucheard’s Seven Wires"—Amusing bur- a $50,000 prize, is one of the three lesqque of the sheik business. pictures referred to and possibly the “Womanhandled"—Good-natured dig at the wide-open space best of the three, though that isn’t meant for praise. It has all the in- gredients that are supposed to make “Soul Mates’ deodorized. or Glyn only partly 41 lieve. > perhaps I should say | his legs go. | | attempts at ravishment. For the “His People” —Rudolph Schildkraut well | villain is always foiled, of course. At cast in a sentimental drama of the Ghetto. least he is in the movies, and as we innera"—Good until the sinners | all know the movies hold up the and then terrible! “You lazy good-fer-nothin ! | Wait till I catch you!” a sure-fire movie — mother love, the Cinderella motif, the attempts aforesaid, murder, and romantic passion triumphant. The only thing it lacks which both the other two pictures contain is a cataclysm of nature to coincide with the climax of the drama and whip the excitement of the beholder to a frenzy. But the substitution of a murder trial in which a father is judge and_ his daughter defendant, all unbeknownst to themselves, does pretty well. In other words, if a movie can be measured quantitatively by the num- ber of primitive emotions it plays on, “Mannequin” may be worth $50,000, Qualitatively, however, it isn’t worth $50. This isn’t the fault of the cast. Dolores Costello, as the kidnaped daughter turned mannequin, is de- cidedly appealing. And special men- tion should be made of Zasu Pitts, who takes the part of the half-cracked nursemaid kidnaper. (Continued on page 23) comicbooks.com