Judge — August 28, 1926 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE | [ you have joined the growing I revolt against Auntie Everything —and what business have you reading Jupce if you haven’t—you will enjoy ‘“Padlocked,” ridiculous asitis. “Padlocked” is propaganda, laid on with a trowel, against the tyranny and hypocrisy of the uplift, and to those who still need it, it is probably just obvious enough to get across. Father so objects to the gaieties of life that he causes his wife’s death and his daughter's exile. Then he ups and marries his blue-stocking secretary with whom he has been flirting clandestinely. She turns out to be a spendthrift harpy with a vul- gar family whom she saddles upon him. His house becomes astir with petting parties; it echoes to jazz, and rocks with the Charleston. His remonstrances earn him only derision. The vision of his first sweet family, wrecked on the rocks of his harsh Puritanism, comes to him. He breaks down, and in meek repentance he buys off wife No, 2 and the im- “Ben-Hur” —Ewwiting spectacle “Moana of the South Seas” Perfect viearions sit to an earthly paradise “La Bohéme”— Lillian Gish “The Black Pirate” —Douglas Fairbanks. “The Bat"—Mystery cocktail “For Heaven's Sake—Harold Lloyd. “Kiki”—Bowdlerized with Norma. “Brown of Harvard" —College life as it a The Wilderness Woma ly with Chester Conklin. {loma of the South Seas"—Gilda Gray Plenty of “Wet Paint"—Poor gag farce. | “Paris"—Apache melodrama, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp"—Harry Langdon “Say It Again"—For Richard Dix fans. “Ella Cinders”—Colleen Cinderella Moore. “Good and Naughty" —Clever farce with Pola The Volga Boatman" —Well, not exa “The Brown Derby'—Badly dented. “The Palm Beach Girl"—The wild Bebe . | “Lorey Mary" “Puppets” —Milton Sills | “The Road to Mandalay"—Lon Chaney strains himself. Best picture in this list Enough said. “Ite the Old Army Game"—W. C. Fields “Up in Mabel’s Room"—Bedroom farce. Mantrap"—Sinclir Lewis off guard. “Nell Gwyn"—Historical romance — tact fully done. | “Men of Steel"—Piffle in fine setting. | | “The Two-Gun Man"—Silver King. | “The Waltz Dream"- “You Never Know Wor lush out of German; possible in-laws and seeks out his daughter. In the meantime daughter has been having her vicissitudes, too. Start- ing as a cabaret dancer, she has been committed, through the intervention of father and stepmother, to a house of correction and — subsequently paroled in the custody of an elderly satyr. The latter is on the point of having his wicked way with her when a former vietim, suddenly turned noble, enlightens her. She faints just as the handsome young hero loves and her broken father stage a simultaneous rescue. The curtain goes down, as curtains will, on an idyllic scene of reconcilia- tion and benediction and—well, love. Noah Beery, who takes the part of the father, does an excellent job, it seems to me, within the limitations of the script. He combines a mealy- mouthed piety with a smirk of apology that is utterly sickening, appropriately so. Lois Moran, the daughter, is not as happily cast. (Continued on page 3.2) Manacer—Lissen, Pete, I made him promise to give you a return match! Ain’t that grand? comicbooks.com