Judge — November 12, 1927 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE HE usual offering of the | little motion picture thea- ters as they exist today bears as much relationship to masculine entertainment as an Alice Foote MacDougall shop re- sembles an old-time beer tavern. I have only a faint, nostalgic idea as to what such a tavern really would be like, but I know it would not be filled with three hundred-pound Aunt Hannahs whiling aw the hours eating waffles and irs until time to waddle off to the matinée. It is this atmosphere of tea and lemonade that permeates the little motion picture theaters of New York. Some mechanical genius suddenly discovers the Cosmic Reaction caused by throwing cream puffs into the The Movie Guide | (Shows continuous unless otherwise noted) ‘Big Parade” (Inwood)—Still marching in the front rank of the better pictures. ‘Chang” (Melrose)—Lions, tigers, and that's not all. ‘See it by all means. “College” (Plaza, Loew's Cameo)—Buster Kea ton in the only funny picture that has been made in mont “Garden of Allak” (Embassy, Twice Daily)— If you like to look at pretty pictures and stupid faces, very well. “King of Kinga” (Gaiety, Twice Daily) —Made at a sacrifice for the benefit of humanit; “Lea Miserables” (Central, Twice Bayete: like most illustrated lectures. ‘Metropolis (New 14th Street)—Novel enough to make you sit and take notice. A German con- ception of life after the new Ford comes out. | “The Patent Leather Kid" (Globe, Twice Daily) —When I could salute my country’s fing, wouldn't, ete. Terrible war hooey. “Stark Lowe” (Eagle)—There’s no mistake about the realism in this one. See it, | “Sunrise” (Times Square, Twice Daily)—The ong real motion picture showing in ity. ‘erenth Heaven” (Lafayette, Stone, Times)— t Gaynor makes Sood i tis one, 25 well en rise. The Student Prince” (Astor, Twice pas Like listening to an old gad tell about his Coe Perfectly terrib Underworld” (79th St. Theater)—Machine gun section in one of our gang infested communities. Thrilling melodrama well done. Price Glory” (Loew's Coney Island, Loew's New Rochelle, Loew's Warwick)—But, of course, you've seen it. “Wings” (Criterion, Twice Daily)—An accurate, if sentimental, picture of the air service. One of the better ones. “The Way of AU Flesh” (Rosedale)—Emil Jan- nings bidding fair to become the most popular actor on the screen. Hudson River and he forthwith scurries out on a tug to take futuristic pictures of “Cream Puff Ripples on the Hudson,” the amazing result being cast on the screen of the little theater in due season. Add to “Cream Puff Ripples ow the Hudson” one Pathé News Reel, three weeks out of date, 2 Chaplin comedy so old you can- not see the eters, mix with a few Greenwich Village sopo- rific paragraphs and you have the usual banal program that s the little theater intelli- I only recall three excellent adult motion pictures that first saw the light of day in the little theater: “Old Bill,” “The Last (Continued on page 26) Dav—Is it true—what they say—you accept money for playing on the college team? “It’s a lie, Father, I’m a burglar.” comicbooks.com