Judge — May 14, 1927 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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ONE HORSE POWER SIXTY HORSE POWER Li Judging the Movies (Continued from page 21) the final fight, to one only moder- ately familiar with such things, seems unusually realistic. But the movies are almost always good at realistic detail. It is part of the technique with which they entice you to the brink just before precipitating you into their sea of sentimentality. I'll say this for Dix that he makes the mush a little more palatable than most. T ability of false gossip by sheer pressure of suggestion to create the condition it pre- supposes—or, in the language of gossips, to make a couple lovers, who hadn’t thought of it, and a husband jealous, who didn’t be- lieve it—such is the reasonably intelligent and sophist st theme of “Lovers?” But in spite of excellent performances by Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry and Edward Martindel, and a duel with swords that for once is neither grotesque nor protracted, the picture is jerky and weari- some. For this the plethora of Little Injustices. —Hemonrisr subtitles is chiefly to blame. So frequently do these interrupt the pictorial flow that one feels he is reading a novel with illustrations, and that cither the one or the other is superfluous. The moving picture industry should be warned against this tendency to multiply subtitles, The number of readers in a movie audience is limited. AAS Mother —Did you give your penny to the Sunday-school ’col- lection? Tommy—No; 1 lost it. “But this is the third week running you've lost it.” “T know, but that other kid’s luck can’t last fore fre Brrs AZZLIe eee whey z n so nelined. Judge pays $5 for each one printed. ““Confessions’”’ PINEHURST (tasting potion mixed with Martini & Rossi): 1 love this sort. Not sweet—tart. dnd it keeps a perpetual Spring- time in one. AIKEN: Yes, indeed. I spring every time I get a chance at one. Like the fern that bent the iron, here is a mildness that is power! Ix Martini & Rossi non-alcoholic Vermouth is the very essence of the successful appetizer—always. Two kinds—the regular Italian and the Extra Dry. It is not a question of ‘“‘which’’ but of “when.” Let Tad Crane intro- duce you to all the wiles of the ways and the ways of the wiles —in “The Confessions ofa Good Mixer” No cover charge. “NCIS ROSS Send for your bbb eae copy, as the élite of the continent are doing, and— ask for the Mar- tini & Rossi non- alcoholic Ver- mouth. No other genuine. W. A. ‘Taylor & Co., 9+ Pine Street, New York City. MARTINI & ROSSI (non alcoholic) VERMOUTH Sold by the Better Grocery and Delicatessen Stores everywhere comicbooks.com