Judge — November 27, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE ARE CorELLt was one of those transparent persons who hide an abnormal interest in sex behind a camouflage of moral indig- nation. What with the activity of the Sumners and Chases, and a smattering of Freud, we recognize such people more readily now than in her day and find them not a little ridiculous. If and when you go to see “The Sorrows of Satan” you will agree with me. “The Sorrows of Satan,” Marie Corelli’s best-known book, was pie for the movie industry. Such mag- nificence, such luxury, such orgies! And all to point a moral! How could they have waited all these years to film it? As it is the effect on the audience is dulled by a diet of similar, if slightly less extravagant, tripe in the interim. I don’t know whether it is true of the movie theaters of the hinterland, but the New York theaters almost invariably include in their vaudeville programs — some sort of acrobatic pageant disguised as an aesthetic dance. — Shapely ladies, imperson- ating nymphs, ap- pear near marble fountains — under trees in splendid imitations of the nude, to be tossed about by a strong man suggesting the satyr or faun, ob- ject matrimon: Every day they have so appeared for years and years, or so it seem When, therefore, the devil in “The Sorrows of Satan” puts on his “pagan rout” to seduce and corrupt our hero, one wonders “The Big Parade” A year old. “Ben Hur” —Spectarvlar. “Moana of the South S vacation. “The Black Pirate “For Heaten's Sak “Aloma of the South Seas” “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" «sg, Say It Again “Ella Cinders” —Ce “The Palm Beach G as"—Vicarious winter Attaboy, Doug! Harold Lloyd Gilda Gray. Harry Langdon. —Dix is funny | slleen Cinderella Moore “The Volga Boatman" —Rvs ala De Mille. irl’ —Bebe Danicls. “The Road to Mandalay"—Lon Chaney plus. “Mantrap Hist “The Walt: Dream’ "—100 per cent. Commonplace. 1 British 6lm. ppy German. “The Amateur Gentleman”—Tiresome. “Battling Butler” ‘Good Buster Keaton. “Beau Geste—Exciting and florid. “So Thie Is Pari “The Scarlet Lette “The Strong Man” “Sparrows —Mary “One Minute to Pla; “The Campus Flirt™ Naughty and neat. —Lillian Gish at ber best Harry Langdon ditto. Pickford —Red Grange. —Bebe, the athlete. “Tin Gods" —Melodramatic tragedy. “The Treasure” —W “You'd Be Surpris “The Temptress” ‘ell made in Germany. "—Raymond Griffith. Greta Garbo. “Kid Boots" —Eddie Cantor. “The Ace of Cads “The Better ‘Ol “The Magician “London” —Echo of “ The suave Menjou —Gorgeous farce. Much ado about nothing. Nell Gwyn.” OB ER “Necessity is the stepmother of everything,” said Bobby who sprained his wrist on a cocktail shaker. mildly how the director happened to get all these vaudeville teams to- gether in one act and just why they should be considered seductive. The splendor of the “interiors,” its impressiveness after so many, many reels in other pictures depicting cocktail parties in the rotunda of the Grand Central Terminal. In other words, “The Sorrows of Satan,” as a picture, is the quin- tessence of cinema slush served up to patrons who, if they aren't, ought to be surfeited and gagged with it. Mind you, it is competently done. The continuity is good; the photog- raphy in parts really lov and Adolphe Menjou makes a devilishly good devil. Among the players only Lya de Putti overacts and belies her reputation. But the thing as a whole is an insult, and not too sly a one, to the adult intelligence. too, loses oun Gitpert is in the way of becoming an ellent acrobat. In “Bardelys the Magnificent,” a swashbuckling melodrama of — the Douglas Fairbanks type, though not so well constructed, he performs a lot of feats on the Douglas Fairbanks order—toboggans down the shafts of a group of leveled spears, swings perilously from balcony to balcony on flimsy draper- ies, uses a silken banner as a para- chute, climbs like a monkey and fen- ces like a master. He lacks a little of the dexterity of Douglas and more of his originality, but he does sur- prisingly well. Mr. Fairbanks should look to his monop- oly. But “Bardelys the Magnificent” as a whole is a (Con. on page 29) 18 comicbooks.com