Judge — July 31, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE is so much the matter with Silence” that one is tempted to take the hint and say nothing. But it has this virtue that it recap- tures for a fleeting scene or two the curiously drab, sad atmosphere, the ugliness and the appalling hypoe Tisy ain of eens started which H. B. Warner, to and within the shadow of the gallows. Jim is a crook. The girl he loves is going to have a baby. i certificate becomes more imperative And looking at those hideous gas fixtures and the marble- topped furniture, and at the rat- stuffed pompadours of the girls, their lines and _ trailing understand it. woman was either one thing or the other in those leaden ¢ Chinese Wall that di from the damned was built of mar- riage certificates. But Jim is prevented from pro- than life itself. armored waist ded the good ‘he Big Parade” Va ni First crowds and excitement ack Barrymore and blubber. 4° —Good Lon Chaney film “Moana of the South Sras"—Genuine travelogue and beautiful photography “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter” lenjou. puch Tbanez makes her bow. t wardrobe. s his stuff “The Bat—Exciting capetery: deama he Untamed Lady" —Gloria Swanson s how unpleasint she can be. rhe Barrier” —Ice and Lionel Barrymore “The New Klondike”’—Florida boom farce “The Crown of Lict*—Pola Negri in a fimsy Balkan romance. “The Flaming Frontier—Custer’s Last Stand melodramatized. ‘or Hearen's Sake"—Harold Lloyd farce. Social Celebrity” Adolphe Menjou 24 he Runaway" —Hill-billy romance. “Brown of Hareard”—Yale wan fecit “Hell Bewt fer Ueacen”—Melodraua with flood “The Greater Glory’ —One lo comes into his own, loma of the South Seas"—Gilda Ge: he Rainmaker”—Much ado about a jockey with a game arm. aint”—Don't touch it! Apache melodr: Tramp" a6 For Richard Dix fans. Colleen Moore. Melodramatic western. ever farve with Pola. ‘he Volga Boatman” —Florid de Mille. "he Brown Derby” hnny Hines. he Palm Beach Girl” —Roughing it with be. “Lovey Mary"—Genteel classic jazzed “Puppes” “Little Hualy and Milton “ills he Road to Mandalay"—Lon Chaney Sees “Variety”"—In which Emil Jannings lives up to his reputation JUDGING, the MOVIILS”* in a bowdlerized | The Wildernces Voman*—Chester Conklin | viding one for reasons which are too involved and far-fetched to relate here. His rival steps in instead and gives Jim's prospective daughter “aname.” And Jim spends the rest of his life, between burglaries, dream- ing of his lost but “saved” sweet- heart and his daughter. Finally, he has the opportunity to pay with his life for a murder committed by his daughter. Warner is good in these last scenes. He makes quite poign- ant the inner conflict. And if only he were allowed to go through with his sacrifice there might be some dignity to the film. But trust the movies! At the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute the rescue comes and we have just another DeMille melodrama. HENEVER I see W. C. Fiel a picture I suffer disappoint- ment. He looks as if he were going to be so much funnier than in the end he turns out to be. This is probably (Continued on page 26) NO. 1 AND THERE MEETS........ RECEIVES A. HAS CONFESSED ALL. UPON WHICH NEW MOVIE CONTEST! THICKEN THE PLOT YOURSELF! Below is printed the basis of a typical movie plot with great open spaces. piece of paper and fill in the spaces, or use the form below if you wish. Judge will pay $. By best, we mean the cleverest and funniest. $25 given each week for the best one. ning plot each will receive the prize. August 14, and the winning plot will be published in the Sept MOVIE PLOT EDITOR OF JUDGE, 627 West 43d Street OU G is cwscssepenctesenesecstensasases ONE DAY A SHORTAGE OF SUSPICION FALLS ON..............-.--.-4 AND TO MARRY HIM nber 4 issue New York. .-IS EMPLOYED IN FIVE YEARS LATER |): (0), Sn SAYING THAT THE REAL AND THEY Copy ais. plot on a separate 25 for the best filled One of these plots will be run each week, and a In case two or more Contestants each submit the same win- You may submit as many plots as you wish. Contes! No. I closes Send your plots to the --AND IS DISCOVERED. FLEES TO --HOME AFTER comicbooks.com