Judge — August 27, 1927 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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ABSENT-MINDED SCHOOL T Judging the Movies (Continued from page 22) sand of that 6,200 come under this category. That leaves two hundred for strays, including movie critics, and art lovers who read the American Mercury and go to the movies just to sneer and scoff in the interest of unadulterated wsthetics. From observation, the gang of 5,000 think that the movie pro- logue is hot stuff. When the heavyweight macaroni juggler warbles a hackneyed bit from Rigoletto they blister their hands, and when, the orchestra plays Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody, with hand - saw obligato, intimate couples un- tangle themselves and applaud vociferously. (If the Dramatic Department really wants to enjoy a movie prologue, our advice is: Buy a piccolo.) Out-of-towners are impressed with the length and breadth of the program, no matter how stupid, and go home with the feel- ing that they “got a lot for their money.” Out of the second group the thousand perhaps are bored to the verge of apoplexy by the prologue, leaving the third group of 200 critics and art lovers as the other people who really thoroughly enjoy the pro- logue. Certainly the movie pro- logue is terrible—in , almost as banal and stultifying as the usual theatrical revue—but_ in New York, at least, the vast ma- jority of movie audiences loudly people enjoy the movie prologue, applaud the prologue. When 5,200 people out of 6,200 what chance has the minority? you will stand in the lobby of any theater and watch the people flock out you will get that same CHER—Iell, what do you want? —SONDAGSNISSE STRIX impression. Most of them ap- pear highly satisfied, and those who look as though they should know better have a mingled ex- pression of disgust and satiation. For them, at least the evening has been spent. The movie audience, as a mass, will stand anything as long it is as well-fed as it is in 1927. It will stand movie pro- , Chinese opera, trombone or card tricks. (I am sur- prised at the Dramatic Depart- ment.) As a conclusion to his defense of the movie audience, Mr. Nat remarked that if the theaters did not give up the business of movie prologues, “it will not be many years before the big movie palaces will begin to show figures on the wrong side of their ledgers.” And, with the utmost respect for the wisdom of the dramatic de- partment, the movie department wants to know that granting such a horrible catastrophe could oc- cur: “Who cares?” High Hat (Continued from page 11) Mae got half way over a pretty girl passed and he tipped his hat to her! fm Then we tried stuffing our clothes with bottles, but I guess we didn’t look natural, because that didn’t work very well either! . by this time we were down to about twenty bottles and we were sorely beset. . . . “Oh, fiddlesticks!" muttered Mac, snapping his fingers (Mac is the Champion Finger Snapper of Belleville, Kansas). ‘Let's drink the darn stuff! . . . so we set to with great gusto and our merry laughter rang through the foot- hills of the Ozarks. . . . fh And that, Little Readers, is the only way I know of that you can transport alcoholic beverages across the border! Don’t forget! Next week, the great race scene at Saratoga! Bring the children! GHyy An American visitor says that in some ys this country is not so up-to-date as the States. He is thinking, we presume, of the fact that in England alcoholic refreshment can be obtained only at stated hours. —Lonpon Opinion VisttoR—This fellow’s very erratic. How many does he take as a rule? MEMBER—Six quick ones before he starts out and about the same number when he gets back! —Lonpon OPINION Py 8 EDWARD LANGER PRINTING CO., ING., JAMAICA, N. ¥. comicbooks.com