Judge — August 6, 1927 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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age odd : of pet ring the She haw ving Dr. ieve, s on Is as > has the com- their tions. IsT Judging the Movies (Continued from page 19) Theater actors, and the picture was directed by Robert Weine, who directed “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.” I always get a headache after reading Dostoi- evsky for an hour, and the movie had the same effect on me, so that probably proves something or other. The sets were reminiscent of “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari,” but after the breath-taking per- spectives of “Metropolis” they seemed a bit amateurish. That is, the Germans have developed their own technic in backgrounds and angles along the rules of dynamic symmetry, but since “Crime and Punishment” other directors have gone much further than did Weine. “Crime and Punishment” is not a good movie, however, simply because it is slow and awkward. It does not build up effectively to the murder, as did “Variet: nor does it move, as did “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari.” It is a faithful adaptation of the novel, and no doubt the task not easy, but the result is not especially good entertainment. However, Weine and his cast made a sincere and commendable effort, and if it was a flop, it was a flop in the right direction. Movies,” writes our and correspondent, “are popular in Ohio, I find. Audiences sing and like it whenever they have one of these music-and-word films.” For fear that some such yodeling fad will strike New York, I have already sent a requi- ition to the editor for one piccolo, size 1114. Singing mov grandmother. your I WANDERED into the Universal projecting room by mistake the other morning and sat for about thirty minutes of a dramatization of Curwood’s “Back to God’s Countr It was running over with French-Canadian subtitles, and even with Renée Adorée I thought ze movie was one ver’, ver’ dam bad job, M’sieur. FUNNYBOMES) We can be thankful nature's laws do not call for Federal enforcement. ———~_ Uudge pays $5 for each one printed “ACE HIGH” WITH THE YOUNGER CROWD! RDINARILY, this modern generation scorns precedent. History is nevertheless re- -peating—in a way which we find interesting and gratify- ing. Something about Fatima —its greater delicacy, its more skillful blending of flavors—has made it, as in other days, an outstanding favorite with the younger set. QUALITY that makes friends everywhere! Pate news showed a newsreel achiev this week with a very funny by that popular comedian, ( some very comic effects by walking around in these, and Pathé missed a great opportunity Coolidge. Mr. Coolidge was pic- i the sequence tured out in the West somewhere through and showing him without wearing alpaca pantaloons and any pantaloons, which I think surrounded by cowboys. Later he would have been a knockout scene. ing chaps, with his ettered on the sides. He by not. carry In Belgium recently, a man who was about to be married was ar- rested. The police, of course, do not always arrive in the nick of time. —Homonisr Here lies an Editor of Avvee, mt fom ts room | LVREIE (CC IABELS | Sent by the one who all her life Was not a lady—but a wife. Spirit of St. Vitus. pnb haba eta, ails oe pays 35 for each ong Pri 4 29 comicbooks.com