Judge — July 10, 1926 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE joop AND NauGuty” bears the deft touch of the master director of polite farce- comedy. Malcolm St. Clair, who fashioned “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter” for the gentlemanly shoulders of Adolphe Menjou, has Jevised in this picture something just as light and almost as_be- coming for the allurements of Pola Negri. He has even tamed for his purposes Ford Sterling and made of him a vehicle of restrained fun. You wouldn’t know your old Ford. Pola comes on the scene a drudge in a soiled smock, seated on a stool in the drafting-room of an architect's office. It is amazing how unattrac- tive a woman of her beauty and charm can make herse’f when she tries. Even more to the point, she is scorned and snubbed by the man she loves, and still she loves him. Imagine the proud Pola consenting to such abasement. But when the time comes she has her reward, of course. She blooms forth all the more refulgent for the temporary eclipse. And not only wins her man “T can't git dawg offen my pants, no how!” “The Big Parade" —The doughboy epic “Ben-Hur —Vast crowds and excitement. Sea Beast”—Jack Barrymore, love and ber. The Black Bird—Good Lon Chaney film “Moana of the South Seas"—The best photography in motion pictures. “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter"— The waiter is Adolphe Menjou, and what a ler! Mare Nostrum’—War tragedy from Ibanez Torrent" —( arbo makes her bow La Bokéme" Lillian Gish and John Gil- bert enact the old story. “Irene” —Colleen Moore and a wardrobe. Pirate” —Doug struts his stuff “First. Year"—Slapstick version of Frank Exciting mystery drama. “The Untamed Lady"—Gloria Swanson shows how unpleasant she ca the Barrier” la boom fare “The Devil's Circus’—Wartime melodrama “The Crown of Lies"—Poli Negri as Balkan queen. “Bride of the Storm—Dolores Costello is rescued from a lighthouse. “The Flaming. Fronticr"—Custer's Last Stand melodrai “For Hearen's Sake”—Harold Lloyd farce. Social Celetwity"—Adolphe » Menjo worth seeing. Norma Talmadge in a bowdler The Runaway”—Hill-billy romance. oro of Harvard" —Conceived by a Yale Pe i ifell Bent fer Hearen"—Melodrama with “The Greater Glory —One Jong yawn. “The Wilderness Woman"—Aileen Pringle and Chester Conklin in excellent comedy Aloma of the South Seas” —Gilda G applesauce. “The Rainmaker"—Disjointed melodrama. We ‘et Paint” "—Don't touch it! Paris” —. che melodrama. “Tramp, Tramp, “Tramp reels of Harry Langdon. “Money Talks" —Terrible. “Say It Again"—For Richard Dix fans. “Ella Cinders"—Cinderella as Colleen ore. “Ranson's Folly’’—Melodramatic Western. | “Have ye tried gasoline and a blotter?” but all the other men in sight into the bargain. It is a simple theme, reminiscent of Cinderella, but dressed up in sophisticated clothing. There is involved a married lady of ardent proclivities and her polite husband, indifferent to her but keen on the scent of co-respondents. There is even the hint of a gay bachelorhood in Bunny West's (Ford Sterling's) address book. Add, for smartness, a yacht trip to Florida and the com- plications of a house party, not to mention some snappy subtitles, as, for instance, when Bunny comes run- ning up with the intelligence that ‘she (I forget who) has broken her leg in three places, New York, New Haven and Hartford.” HE NATION has remarked about “The Volga Boatman” that it indicates a distinct alteration of public sentiment toward the Russ’ Revolution. Instead of attributing all manner of license and atrocities to the Reds, it is inclined to roman- ticize their cause and to smear with (Continued on page 28) comicbooks.com