Judge — April 2, 1927 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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tion, but over here one is prompted to ask where, in such a scheme, they would park their limousines. The picture lacks humor, ut- terly. It also toys with the Roman orgies of the idle rich, a la Hollywood, repeating with evident relish the subtitle, “Wealth sweated out of flesh returns to flesh.” But it doesn’t lack excite | ment. This begins when the workers strike and destroy the monster machines that hold them in thrall. Then, indeed, hell breaks loose and what trans- pires has your eyes popping. ‘The dreams of Jules Verne are mere bedtime stories beside it. Jost a Lot of College Boys on a World Cruise, or Life in Uncle Sam’s Navy would be a more descriptive title for such a movie as “Let It Rain.” What a time they do have horsing one an other, our movie gobs and leather necks, and how they do get in dutch with their officers, just like undergraduates playing pranks on the dean—all good clean fun! And then, of course, they fall in love, like as not more than one of them with the same sweet, moth- | erly vamp, and suddenly their ambitions are roused. They de- termine to cut out the fol-de-rol | and really study for their com- missions. The last scene shows them in officers’ uniforms. But I was almost forgetting the interlude in “Let It Rain” that made a hero out of whoever it is that Douglas MacLean imperson- ates. As a marine guarding the mails, he takes along his cuti who is Shirley Mason, captures a couple of train robbers and. ties them up in mail sacks. It’s all very exciting and not unfunny. Te. gentlemen love Tamara, who is Billy Dove. One ved by Lewis Hammersley, pls Stone—a somewhat elderly in- vestment banker of large wealth and patrician habits. The other is Jerry, in the person of Lloyd Hughes, a high-spirited but im- pecunious clerk. Jerry wins in “An Affair of the Follies.” Miss Dove is undeniably a sus made flesh. r plum THE FLAVOR Flavored with the juice of mint leaves... Refreshment be- tween smokes and after every meal... Learn How to BOS system of Jimmy De ,JIMMY DeFOREST BOXING COURSE 337 Madison Ave., Dox 1156, New York City Fr tive GeNTLEMAN—It’s not my fault, constable. I got out to tickle up the engine, and when I got back some blighter had pinched my steering wheel.—Passina Suow comicbooks.com