Judge — June 11, 1927 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE marches off with the army to somewhere or other. On the v to the front he stops at home and takes advantage of the innocence of his boyhood love, Katusha, the servant girl. The dissolute Dmitri goes on to the front, where the “best is no better than the worst,” which is certainly bad enough, and Ka- tusha gets thrown out of the house by Dmitri’s hard-boiled aunt. Seven years later Katusha, fallen to harlotry, is brought be- fore a jury which includes Prince Dmitri and is accused of murder. She is sentenced to a life of hard labor in Siberia and Dmitri is so repentant at discovering — the ruined Katusha he gives his estates to the peasants and de- cides to hike along to Siberia with the prisoners. With the exception of some neat work during the in-fighting, La Roque seemed at a total loss in his réle so, possibly to cover his confusion, he changed beards no less than seven times in the picture. At the start he has just a sophomore’s wisp but by the time he gets all poisoned in the army, he rounds out a suspicious looking Burnside job which trou- bles him more and more as he goes on, and off. Miss Dolores Del Rio tries hard as Tolstoy's squint-eyed heroine, but an exhausting dis- play of f muscles is rather ineffectual. The final scene of the film shows Katusha giving up a pardon and = marriage and arching on to the salt’ mines singing courageously while the Prince waits for her in vain, but considering the fact that he has by this time cultivated a beard that practically hides his coon- skin coat it really seemed the most intelligent thing for her to do. Tey have the most Tusurious divans in New York in. the balcony lobby of the Capitol Theater, and I was sitting there in peaceful comfort when an usher came over and tried to usher me inside. “JT just want to see the main picture,” TI answered loftily. “But you can’t miss the news reel, sir,” he insisted. I then ¢ (Continued on page 26) You can fool all the people some of the time Nope, no reason at all why we men shouldn't be as undressed | as the women—here is the latest one-piece silk dinner suit. \ > and some of the people all of the time Flivver and bacon. but you can’t fool all the people all the time. comicbooks.com