Judge — March 27, 1926 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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William Morris ha: JUDGING the MOVIES* | F the three farce-comedies that make up the reviewer's grist this week I liked best “Let’s Get Married.” It can’t com- pare for subtlety of portrayal or ripe humor with “The Grand Duch- ess and the Waiter,” but Richard Dix manages to make it distinctly amusing in spots. He is that rare phenomenon, a handsome come- dian, whose easy, natural sense of comedy is unmarred by his very obvious sightliness. The part he takes in “Let’: t Married” is that of a former college football hero and good-natured hell raiser whose animal spirits, when augmented sufficiently with the other kind, have been known to wreck a night club. In fact he demonstrates his genius in this direction to your entire satisfaction. But he falls in love, and all is changed within. Un- fortunately this spiritual transfor- mation is unknown to those who “The Big Parade—Nothing better yet. “A Woman of the W Pola Negri gives Main street a thrill. Very good. “Siegfried” —Quite worthy of its subject. “Tumbleweeds"—Standard Bill Hart fare. “Lady Windermere’s Fan”—Wilde with a touch of Dubuque. iss for Cinderella” —Sentimentality at its charmingest. “Bluebeard’s Seren Wiees”—The movie sheik | burlesqued. “Womanhandled”—A new version of the Soul Mates’ inor Glyn piffle. That Royle Girl” —Crook drama solved by cyclone. “The Splendid Road” —Deep in slush. “The chariot race is worth the | sion. Pretty terrible, notwithstand- | Jobn Barrymore. “The Black Bird”—Lon Chaney in a good Limehouse drama, “The Reckless Lady"—Sir Philip Gibbs | wouldn't know his child. | “Memory Lane” —Mush. “Moana of the South Seas"—Personally. | | conducted tour to Paradise, | “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter”—First | rate comedy. “Partners Again"—Potash and Perlmutter murdered. i Mare Nostrum”—Florid war tragedy from banez. “Dancing Mother “Torrent” ‘A feeble sermon. reta Garbo and sophistication, “La Bohem old story, beautifully acted and film Hurst's 850,000 prize | have had to deal with him before, and while he is on the premises, an innocent bystander, another riot occurs in his favorite night club. I say riot, but that is a feeble and hackneyed term for the most gor- geously realistic free-for-all it has heen my privilege to see on the screen, In any case they light on our hero as the ring-leader and per- petrator and he goes to jail for thirty days. How he keeps his predicament from his girl, even unto and beyond the altar, forms the plot of the drama. A burlesque of the wedding ceremony is the only serious lapse in taste. N T in order of beguilement comes “Irene,” with Colleen Moore. Miss Moore is the feminine counterpart of Richard Dix in that she can be both charmingly pretty and funny. “Irene” as a picture, “H-Henry, we've a l-lot to be g-grateful for—tl-lookit Joneses; they have no car at all.” “That d-don’t do us no good—we're not the Jo-Joneses!” comicbooks.com