Judge — April 23, 1927 — page 24: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ITS FINE INGIN’ VERY good Indianknows there’s nothing better for growing children tk Orange Juice. But every good Indian should know how good Mission Orange Juice is, (Ala Shaker) be- cause it mixes with the Best. Grapefruit and Lemon, too. CALIF, CRUSHED FRUIT CORP., Los Angeles JUDGING... “he ee liom HERE is nothing in Harry Langdon’s latest _ picture, ong Pants.” quite as hilariously funny as some of the business in “The Strong Man.” It is, however, more even and with just a hint of something a little cerebral in its appeal. That is to say, it asks an appre- ion of the mental proce of adolescence. Harry, his hea romance and w d crammed with ng his first pair of long pants, has the luck, good or bad, to run across a very lus- cious young person of more than doubtful antecedents. She _ is seated in her car in his village street waiting for her chauffeur to change a tire, and Harry woos her silently with bicyele ‘tricks. Knowing Harry, you will be dum- founded, not to say convulsed, at his dexterity. The girl, bored with the delay and faintly amused with her new admirer, maliciously invites him into her car and folds him in her arms. Crang! Or, if you prefer, Pow! Or Woof! Harry just topples over back- ward into the street, a completely changed young man. At this moment his mother calls him. And while he is gone the chauffeur finishes changing the tire. The latter apologizes. “I’m ris Houchion vout the flat tire, madam.” he Says, and she replies: “Oh, yes, hurry up and drive off befor he comes back. Well, this is the beginning of Harry's life of crime, and as such beginnings go, it isn’t altogether implausible. The lady doesn’t go out of his life; quite the contrary. But in the end he comes back to the sweet little girl he has de- serted on their wedding eve, after vainly attempting to assassinate her, and is received like a prodi- gal. To be explicit, he walks into his father’s house to find his bride and his parents at table ring grace. He sits down silently and joins them. And when they look up and see him they're so eager to get to him that they tip the dinner table and all its contents over on top of him. Curtain. Of course, you have got to like Harry to enjoy such simple fare, but if you do like him you'll get a lot of entertainment out of “Long Pants.” Tx simplicity of “Long Pants” will appeal to you with double force after swallowing such an overdose of farce-melodrama as “Wolf's Clothing,” with Monte (Continued on page 26) Why not make a demonstration in approved style some fine Sunday afternoon? 22 pa ainin RRNNNNRSRNNKNSEETE comicbooks.com