Judge — January 7, 1928 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Semaine erase a | } sno new plays are scheduled for the week covered by | this critique and as 1 shall not be able to get my reports on the following Monday and Tues night openings to the printer in schedule, due to important conferences with the Anti-Saloon directly after the pre- as to its recommendation as to how [ shall celebrate the Christmas season, I'll devo! » my- self today to a few observations of a general nature. AIL com plaints may be filed at the office a this publics ation. I [= No. 1 toward a volume of Americana Theatricalia, snitched from that world-famous gazette, the Wichita, Kan Beacon: “How deep should Ophelia’s grave hi This is the question which is worry- ing directors and st whe are bending make “Hamlet.” which is to be pre sented at the hi 1 Wednesday and nights, realisti \ en loaned by: a local undertaking and) Miss Helen who plays — the ‘ is prepared to enough to be lowered inte a cavity der the floor if the decision is that part of the floor be removed to satisfy sticklers for realism ce managers. ‘y effort to II A rew months ago, the mem- bers of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and of the Association of Motion Picture Producers of California, Ine., specified eleven themes which may not be used in the movi together with twenty-six which, in their own age, “shall be handled with me care in order that vul- ity and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste » Hamilton's gin JUDGE novel of the Chinese melatram ‘One god melodrama J ——/ rae SHOW Se cc’ fe STAN oa ** (Belaont)—Ther 7 may be emphasized.” Among the twenty-six listed themes 1 « serve the following: arson, safe- cracking, the dynamiting — of trains, murder, hangings and electrocutions, the branding of people, rape, and deliber: duction of girls, To the first member of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors — of America or of the Asse Motion — Picture Producers — of California, Inc., who will confide to me the esoteric trick of elimi nating vulgarity and suggestive ation of ness and of emphasizing good taste in the © and the d, 1 shall award the Congres: sional Medal and an autograph of one of the Tiller girls’ broth- ers, together with the privile of not attending receptions to Lindbergh. se of arson, murder, other items spe I wave received a letter in’ care of this periodical from a gentleman in Kentucky that runs ts follows: You are a cheesy dramatic critic and [hope you closed with the letter by my correspondent is a self- iddressed, stamped envelop Phe question as te what Tam xpeeted to do with that envelope is giving me some worry, IV Ti apparent decision of Miss Katharine Cornell to con- seerate her life and talents to cheap but prosperous box-office bumpers betrays the weak and shoddy cel of the woman to whom the ¢ in itics have been look- as the most promising of our youn r American actre Last year, Miss Cornell « herself to the — mone tripe-dish called, “The (Continued on page voted maki comicbooks.com