Judge — April 16, 1927 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JU DGE JUDGING, “he MOVIES’: per the title, “Slide Kelly I Slide,” appears this ex- planation, “A Motion Pic- ture of the Great National Pas- time.” But whether this refers to baseball or the great national stime of weeping with William Haines is not made clear. Wil- m Haines, you may remember, is the young gentleman who al- s marches on the scene as fresh as wet paint below zero; who proceeds to woo the heroine with strong arm methods, to get in wrong with his superiors, to go off on a bat at a crucial moment and then, having had a good ery, to come ck like a house afire and win the race or the fight or the game—and the girl. This is the formula he faithfully carries out in “Brown of Harvard’ and in “Tell It to the Marines.” As “The Scarlet Letter”: by William Morris Houghton —A fine tragedy The Strong Man"—Harry Langdon’s best The Better 'Ole”: he Sorrows of Sai re in the Naty he Gorilla Hunt stranded in Paris" ‘he Fire Brigade “Don Juan"— “The Lady in Erm “The Music Master" ‘he Potters” —Pro! “The Rough Riders" “The Show" —N. G. ‘pstage"—Authentic peep at vaude' “What Price Glory” “Faust”—Jannings “Old Ironsides"—A “Michael Strogof” ‘ell It to the Marines" Blonde or Brunette’ Pollies"” —Miss Dove is pretty Teddy to the life A side-splitter. tan’ Now"—Good slapst le '—Pictorially great. is divappointing beautiful boat. xciting melodrama. The real thing. "—A bedroom and Bebe. oft hard-boil '—Exciting propaganda, ine” —Old- und and amusing satire. Bedroom farce. hioned mush. The General —Good Buster Keaton. cjMeFadde's Flate"—Chester Conklin in the nd applesauce. xcellent hill billy realism. rman picture. in the L Jim Kelly, the rookie pitcher, he applies it again in “Slide, Kelly, ide.” And to judge from the sound as of a mild influenza epi- demic sweeping the hardboiled audience of fans, it still gets ’em. The baseball played in the pic- ture is made realistic and ex- citing, with the help of the New York Yanks. Karl Dane, as a slow -witted Swede player, is funny, and so is Junior Coghlan, as the little ragamuffin mascot, until they set him to praying. But, oh, the wholesale hooey _ | ne Denr- Brine,” as you might guess, v ges on the naughty — just verges. It just verges, also. on being a very de- lightful little comedy of the so- phisticated Gallic order. (Continued on page 29) Some- What is so rare as a day in June? A WOMAN WITH AN OLD-TIME FIGURE” "Here ore your shivers, Dad, oR Hen ety | with Yo (ae 8 A DUTIFUL CHILD. “and so they were married and. lived happily ver after’ Impossible! ” A CHEERFUL NOVEL “Am 1 to undestand this 05 0 proposal of 4 marriage 7” A OOP WITHIN CALL WHEN HES NEEDED "ABSOLUTELY 1” ‘A050 Ji AN \MPOVERISHED BOOTLEGGER AND— A PRETTY BATHING -GIRL ar el | | | comicbooks.com