Judge — December 31, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE ah Daca latest Hatton-Beery com- edy, “Now We're in the Air,” has little rhyme or humor to it, and is nothing but an old slap- stick two-recler drawn out to tiresome lengths. This gives us a good chance to slip in the name | of our favorite war movie; i | “Shoulder Arms” was a much funnier production. Ne “What is the gentlest way of breaking the news to the chief that the cashier has absconded?” “Let the bookkeeper tell him—he stutters.” Judging the Movies (Continued from page 24) pires and you begin to wonder whether Lon Chaney is really a murderer of a detective or just —Passina Snow little things that enables you to pass the time away while you are waiting for Aunt Margaret to fight her way out of Macy’s. It is the story of a Pittsburg heiress We read that the skirt a Brooklyn woman wore made a policeman blush. There may be such a woman, there may be such a policeman, but in these days there just can't be such a skirt. —Pink ’UN Visitor (distractedly)—Doctor, my husband complains of seeing dots before his fs “I hardly think that is cause for serious alarm.” “But, doctor, he tries to sign his name on them.” —ANSWERS | what the deuce he is up to you'll who ce coon Tahar, lion ce: ‘ Ha forget all about the slow be tamer. She proves to be harder In their hearts women are not hal ginning. meat than just plain old lion, law-abiding,” says a writer. Es- | I imagine Browning sleeps in and they live happily ever alter all comments correspond- ] an old barn, or a/subway exeava wards; or at least until they get — ent, regarding the law of bridge. tion. I never saw a man who ‘© Pittsburg. == EARING»SHOW has more fun when he turns him- |i self loose in-a good, sturdy, de i | serted mansion. Of course he has had a lot of depressing ex- i | Hi periences just from running it around with Lon Chaney; a nor- j mal person would rather take a trained bear to St. Christmas morning than walk down the street with him, but even so that doesn’t explain why Browning should e with ant eaters and gila monsters and | bats and the other pets he intro- duces in his pictures. Anyway, it works in “London Midnight.” He has a slick story, with Lon Chaney acting a dual réle magnificently, Thomas’ on SO a he creates a gruesome, sickening 10g situation, and then turns every- \ thing out all right. You can’t | | f ask more from a director and his | j assistants. “Visiting your wife, old man?” | | “Yes; she asked me down for the week-end to look over a | } “Hoxexsoon Hate” is one of couple of airedales and a future husband.” 4 those harmless, pleasant —Everypopy’s WEEKLY \ | 3 | comicbooks.com