Judge — September 10, 1927 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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you want to appear as a sw EmpLoyer—Y es Judging the Movies (Continued from page 20) handed, and the building falls and mortally wounds him. Back to the base line hospital. His sweetheart, now a nurse, sees him on the operating table. The doctor says his case is hopele gotta operate,” she sa my man.” Whereupon the opera- tion is performed without ether— the girl making love to her sweet- heart while he is being put to- gether, thereby capably keeping mind from the two or three r operations going on on ious sections of his anatomy, and the ex-prize fighter is saved. Then comes the miracle. The fighter is seated in a wheel chair, a hopeless cripple. “When I could have saluted my flag, I wouldn’t—now that I wanna, I can’t,” he says. Just then the company marches by, the band plays, Old Glory run up and the ent Leather Kid staggers feet and salutes his coun- flag! The hospital scene in “The Patent Leather Kid” is the most sickening exhibition of bad taste I have ever witnessed. However, it’s all a part of the process of stimulating the public. The or- chestra alternates playing “The ars and Stripes Forever” with fy Buddy.” That is, your movie audience, breathless from bad ventilation and paying a dollar and a half for standing —"‘you ord- my doctor has prescribed iron! —Passinc Snow infallible Yankee artillery, and then it is given a chance to re- lieve itself by a erying jag when the hero is carried bleeding and ttle. bleating from the field of ba With their usual perspica ten years after the war the movie producers have discovered what a gold mine it is. Stallings and King Vidor started the deluge with the best war picture that ver been made: “The Big However, even Stall- ing’s excellent story was spoiled by a saccharine ending stuck on the picture against his protests. The new war pictures, using tanks and planes and hundreds of extras demonstrating how our boys chased the Boche out of France in order to make room for the Cook’s tour parties, and accompanied by an_ orchestra equipped with kettle drums, port- able saw mills and time bombs give a jaded public a bigger shot in the arm than any other subject the producers could use. With the pictures the films made in Hollywood reached the epitome of cheap sentiment and rank vulgarity. iven the exceptions are not per- fect, but they are powerful and restrained enough to live down the d moments. “The Big Parad “Wings,” “What Pric Glory” and “Shoulder Arms” are the four ptions, and at the present time there are over twenty war pictures now showing or on the way, including ‘The Patent Leather Kid,” that come under the other category. of four war exception anche of i: ainst Adolph u by this department retracted, because his ervice for Ladies” is exceed- ingly good. The picture is deft, pleasing, and consistently amus- ing, and Menjou, Parisian h ter in love with an American heiress, is superb. It is the best directed and acted light comedy picture I have seen in months. is hereby a famous Into this cistern Grandpa Gooch Feil heading, full 0° hops and hooch. Pause, quaff —and passing goof! Poor Grandpa's bier's a hun- dred proof! weep, ye AWhrubabteutirabecans, alirase pays 35 for each one situ, Print gt Ane a room, gets a psychological kick bi in the pants when a row of prop- erty houses is blown up by the second pair of girls I’ve caught smiling at you! I think you'd better come in front here and pull! —Hvenorist Wire (full of suspicion, to exhausted husband)—That’s the | i EDWARD L. GER PRINTING €O., INC., JAMAICA, N.Y comicbooks.com