Judge — August 21, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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“The Big Parade" —Yes. “Ben-Hur” —Huge biblical melodrama. “Sea Beast"—Moby Dick burlesqued. “Moana of the South Seas”—Almost perfect | photography. | “La Bohéme"—Lillian Gish. ry * k Pirate"—Doug struts his stuff. * A worp of cheer! The famous The Batt Hoot tol the wtp aed | tured version. How many of the | UFA studios in Berlin have at 1¢ Flaming Frontier"—Custer'd. light operas or musical comedies of last sent us a picture that is 7 Heacen's Sake”—Harold Lloyd farce. | ur salad days could stand the cold just as clownish, just as sentimental, Bik’ Bomdlerised with Norme: light of the camera or the embroidery ti dei d ‘ood Brown of Harcard”—College f the subtitle writer? Very few i just as full of hokum asthe Hollywoox “The Wilderness Woma y of the subtitle writer? Very few in- average. There is only this differ- comedy with Chester Conklin. = deed. There is something merciless ence: On this side we invariably Weeaiet pot ies Gray. | about the cinema. The plot or sentimentalize over the prudes of the “Paria —Les apaches, 7 story must have substance or it’s like countryside in their contacts with “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp"—Harry Langdon. canning a charlotte russe. the gay, wicked city. In “The y It savin Pee Bic Dir fans. - 9 : , lla Cinders” —Colleen Moore waeu ; ie W altz Dream all the sy paths and cod and Naughty’’—Clever farce with Pola. ou mey derive a certain sardonic tears are expended on the gay, he Volga Boatman”—Red romance. satisfaction also from the news wicked Viennese in their contacts “The Brown Derby”—Jobnny Hines. that “You Never Know Women,” with the prudes of the countryside. deta Bet Girt” —Gags and romance from the story by Ernest Vajda, is, It is an interesting reversal and 1 | ™iycombioe!. a antage | oT ought to be, a flop. Ernest Vajda sincerely hope it has a good run; it Patch. rs ston & is a presumably superior Continental will help a little to even the score. ore Cae te ey whose “Fata Morgana” was imported It seems that “The Waltz Dream” strains himself. ¥ ‘ and produced a few years ago by the was “adapted from Oscar Straus’ | “Variety"—Splendid importation. Theater Guild itself. But “You famous operetta,” presumably of the “s sorel ol ee ae onde ao as, Never Know Women,” written for same title. I’m sorry I don’t Te- pin Mabel's Room"—Bedroom farce. and around Florence Vidor, gives member the operetta, built around "Sinclair Lewis slings slush. no hint whatsoever of the writer's the strains of “The Blue Danube,” fi rea —Historical romance’ taste- glorious past. Neither does “The but I can well imagine that its tune- “Men of Steel”—Pifle in fine setting. Crown of Lies” with Pola Negri, fulness saved it in some degree from “The Two-Gun Man"—Silver King. whose story he also wrote. the stark sentimentality of the pic- (Continued on page 28) Cave Beau—Oh, bother! How embarrassing! I've proposed to the wrong sister. comicbooks.com