Judge — May 14, 1927 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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

JUDGE JUDGING, ‘he MOVIES * What Price Glory’’—So:ne hooey, but mostl: onsides" —The old frigate afloat on sent The Ge African adventure. “Tall It to the Marines" —You think it is realism | until Haines beg “The Pire Brigade” “Don Juan" —Fight hundre ki TRIPPED to its essentials, Flesh and the Dest" —Miss Garbo shines lem—it is, most unfortunately, Children of Divorce” may The Music Master" —Old-fashioned mush poppycock. F Be “The Potters’ —Excellent satire. be described as a suicide “The Kid Brother" —Fair Lloyd. entirely surrounded by platitudes. “When a Man Lows" —Barrymore travesty Ture ’s plenty of excitement in The platitudes, of ‘course, are “The General" —Goodl Buster Keaton a prize-fight even when you liquid with tears. eiMlefadden’s Fate”—Ol4 comedy somevtt re | know how it's coming out. From There is really nothing com- The Third Degree’’—Pictorially experimental the beginning, of course, in mendable about the picture except The ed Mill" —Peppered with wisecracks, “Knockout Reilly” you know that the acting of Gary Cooper in the Hoe Gree Misae Blatt Richard Cour de Lion Dix even réle of a young plutocrat of spirit pe Eseettent hil billy realism tually is going to lick the big bum and force, who is tricked into an ""—An interrupted honeymoon. who has framed him and in unwelcome marriage. He seems i ? man y the championship of the world, but amazingly real. On the other cciets og CAnnRreSIa at gots te the suspense is so ruthlessly con hand, Clara Bow, as the society 4n Affair of the Follies —Miss Dove cove trived that when the knockout irl who tricks him and who — | oe! Meuh Riders"—"Therell be a hot time comes you feel like yelling with eventually destroys herself, is «The Show! —N. G. the celluloid spectators. Right miscast. “She has the impetuosity Faieig ce ieee aE co: ego over on his back for the count but hardly the polish for the part. “Bruening Clothe ; would-be dit goes the Killer, as chivalry con Esther Ralston, who takes the “Long Pe Lang vers, quers bestiality, as idealism floors part of the other girl, does well “Wolf's Clo \ materialism, as right k. 0.’s might. enough with a character who is ‘ as knights like Carpentier always too consistently sweet and self- ase ‘alle pakestase- | crash their Dempseys—in the sacrificing to be interesting. l ; ; land of make-believe. As for the moral of the melo- old § e “Knockout Reilly” is a picture drama F arriage for love is appeal like a million others except that the solution of the divorce prob- (Continued on pag Wire—Just like @ man! 1 could sit here all evening and you wouldn't notice my new gown. comicbooks.com