Judge — October 2, 1926 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE dosed at any ge with sentimental chivalry will probably thrill in spite of ourselves to “Beau Geste.” We can’t help it very well if the Little Lord Fauntleroy stuff gets us. But at least we don't have to give such extravagant mush the approval of our heads, too. While we snuffle over the inhuman nobility of the three Geste brothers, let us reserve a few round curses for the proprietors of such a fraud on our sensibilities. In “Beau Geste™ price is stolen from a titled English a jewel of great lady in the presence of her three stalwart and devoted nephews, the So great is the love these r one another that cach pronounces himself the thief to shield the other two, and all three seek a voluntary exile in the French ion. As the thing is sup- Geste boys. Foreign Le posed to be a mystery drama, I won't tell you any more of the plot than to say that there are bloody and desper- ate and heroic doings against the background of Sahara sands and that in the course of them one salient character is developed, that of Ser- geant Lejaune, hell-blistering drill- master, inhuman martinet, all-round crook and splendid soldier. Much might have been made of this bird ina. less preposterous narrativ Even as it is, Noah Beery does the handsome thing by him, but his realism and gusto. only emphasize the unreality of the rest of the show. Palely loitering in the background is the hint of a tender attachment serve to between the youngest of the Geste doll-like cousin. It and constitutes tlie brothers and is the merest h only “love interest” in the romance. This and the fact that only one of the noble brothers survives the affair involving Fort Zinderneuf mark a de- parture for the movies that shouldn't pass unnoticed. ‘The more movie can kill off before they start kissing, the merrier. heroes we *y William Morsis Houghton | “The Biy Parade “Ben Hur*—Ben a long t “Moana of the La Bohime™ Superlative Hur. South Seas" AY “The Black Pirate” “For Heaven's Sake" Douglas Pair! Harold Lloy “Aloma of the South Seas"—G Richard Dix farce Ila Moore. Pola as comedienne, “Say It Ayain™ “Ella Cinders” Colleen Cindere “Good and Naughty” “The Volga Boatman” —Red melodrama, “The Palm Beach Girl" —The wild Bebe. “Lovey Mary” —Sugary. “The Roa to Mandalay” “Variety —Big stutf Lon Chaney. Bedroom farce, “Mantrap"”—By Sinclair Lewis. “Nell Gwyn" —Good British film, The Walt: Dream’*—Slush out of Germany. “The Amateur Gentleman —Barthelu “The Loves of Ricardo"—Blah, “Battling Butler" —Buster “Potemkin” 16 it appen miss it SIGN. ON THE DOTTED LINE: DO IT.NOW TIME 1S MONEY: THE DARK GENTLEMAN IN THE WOOD PIL! The best people nowadays have taken to smoking cubebs, as my little readers will see shortly from this side-splitting laugh producer. All. aboard! “I think people are getting more religious every day,” commented one churchman to another as they stood at the bar. “Now you're talking, bo!” came back the other, who happened to be chaplain at Sing Sing. “My congregation is increasing every Sunday!” They went off into a gale of laughter and had to be thrown out. | ING. ‘he MOVIES” Trost who say that the drama of personal relationships in rela- tively intimate settings can never be done so well on the screen as on the stage should see the Lubitsch picture. “So This is Paris.” T won't say that it disproves their contention, but it will give them pause. ‘There is at least one scene in it, that of the which transcends the possibilities of the speaking stage both in the matter of display and of ss the ball first eidoscopic whirl of jazz-mad masque ball, interpretation. One se as a ki coup! s all hopping the Charleston Then out of the chaos of the carnival are picked close-up flashes of in dividual couples and individual legs. Finally, the general scene, the madly g; figures take on multiple outlit as close-ups alternate with yrating the floor sways and the whole thing as- sumes the aspect of a mild delirium: that is to say, one sees it through the eyes of one of the celebrants himself. From the blurb of the Film Arts Guild, which is chaperoning this celluloid debutante, [am given to understand that this scene “has been called the best record of the present a % mania in any medium.” Maybe you will ure with it, The story itself is typically Gallic It treats of extra-marital flirtations, and the situ- in subject and humor. ations and deceptions into which they lead, with the lightness of thistledown and with a gayety that evidently disarmed even the ¢ Lubitseh has preserved this Gallic flavor in the nsors. picture with much better success than he had in capturing the tone of smart English society in “Lady Winder- In this and in other re- spects he has been ably seconded by mere’s Fan.” the discriminating performances. of his players—Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman and Andre At the end of the piece comes a flash worthy of Maupassant the momentary masher Beranger. glimpse of one whom circumstances have (Continued on page 24) comicbooks.com