Judge — February 19, 1927 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE th te tl a —Beautiful and dumb. Lillian Gish at her best R | “The Strong Man” —H ngdon ditto, in “The Campus Flirt"—Bebe, the tomboy. i “Tin Gods" —Renée Adorée dies for love. él “ You'd Be Surprised” —Subtle Griffith. 1 | “Kid Boots"—It won't bore you. ba “The Kid Brother” I seem Ln Ge Tue Film Arts Guild has pre- i I to see the first faint sugges- “London” —Poor Br : ented the “Slums of Berlin,” tion of the twilight that is “The Sorrows of Satan” — it explains, not as a great picture, bound rather sooner than later to Magni cent” but as an example of the average si overtake the clowning career of the Nary No run of German films. Apparently Harold Lloyd. A comedian needs Acting” Amusing I am not the only one to find it i a great deal more than clever Seceer'A flr ate romance distinctly superior to the average i gags to prolong his vogue, and law A wintaw on souderile run of our own films, or it 4 he Eagle of the Seas”—Gentleman pirate. 5) B Harold Lloyd hasn't got a great “Potemkin” tid wouldn't have been held over at i deal more. Compared with the “What Price Cloryr"—Pictorially great. the Cameo weck after week play- ‘i richness of personality that is “The Canadian" —Drab. ing to capacity audiences. fe such a source of strength to “Faust"—A fine picture The theme of the thing is sen- in Charlie Chaplin and to Harry “Old Tronsides”—Excessively patriotic. timental and commonplace, that a Langdon, his personality is a bit ee nee seen of an convict of respectable © meagre. He has to lean too heavily ids Patna tskceeards als family and good intentions who ir on his gags, and good gags, like Winkie tc finds his former avenues of social « fish, grow progressively hard to “The Fire Brigade” ~Exci ting propaganda. intercourse and employment ©: capture the more you pull out of “ Hotel Imperial—Pola deserves better. closed to him with rather melo- the stream. “Valencia”—Mae Murray flees D'Arcy's teeth. dramatic harshness and inhu- tt “The Kid Brother” is very “A Little Journey"—But quite long enough. manity and who sinks, perforce, R funny in spots, notably when he ee ear florid. into slum life. He is saved from a matches his agility of mind first ered oe he DA eon ec Gaia || Mulisidde: bya’ girl of the istreets, f against the superior brawn of his | Garbo : who devotes herself to him, and . two older brothers bent on cap- The Music Master” —Old-fashioned mush. from starvation by a gentle old tl turing and punishing him, and a 7 —Profound and amusing satire, photographer who gives him some a second time against the gorilla- ene ita — Dedicon arse precarious employment. There ‘i like crook who has swiped the are other sentimental figures and ee money for the new dam which the situations and a dénouement of neighbors had entrusted to_ his love and success almost worthy of father, the sheriff. But the pic- to miss in the man that extra our domestic tradition, but sur- ture on the whole falls consider- degree of personal warmth and rounded by a realism of setting ably short of the hilarious comedy magnetism that in the greatest both rich and ghastly, for which | in “The Freshman” and ‘For clowns helps them over the bare — the Germans are famous. / Heaven’s Sake” and causes one places. Bernard Goetzke, who takes | \ i i i } ] { ; j E ] 0 La ; ] The Father of His Country .. . started something 1 | 20 | | comicbooks.com