Judge — January 21, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE UDGAN G Te \ PARE LCRENIZ The Movie Guide ry you should happen to. pass see ta tea There is the usually the stage door of the New a I little Amsterdam theater any two of anemic wisecracks by afternoon this week you will tind the expatriate dramatic crite, a bedraggled little knot of erépe rtan it Herman) Mankiwic fluttering forlornly in the wind, a pathetic symbol marking not love story, and a score or (a bit) of information which may or may not. start you chuckling), and the decease of an actor, but, The wed in this bev that is all. what is much more terrible, the : sin the good The picture shows Fields as tion of a great comec a bankrupt circus manager, C. Fields. And if: you will stranded on the steppes of Kan- peer closely under the somber sas, bereft. of everything but a how that identifies his exit from : ie 8 eel mow | rd truck full of freaks and the American stage you will find he ‘ ter full) of a_eard inseribed: HE WENT ‘ m TO HOLLYWOOD! True enough, the imaginative a romance The rd goes dead in’ an’ inland hamlet and the showman shelves his troupe and his daughter in financiers of the Golden Coast who used to rollick across the — the local tavern, whieh ix. man gain have cast him in the Pus w Amsterdam he rest) aged) by an ex-burlesque queen. busine s. And they have him of his picture, “Two Flaming = The woman is courted by the juggling boxes and waving his Youths. in which Chester local sheriff (the kind of local ing ti cigar at the open- Conklin also sweats to put over sheriff you may see portrayed by mouthed crowd. But that is all artificial gags, is meaningless traveling stock companies play- they have of the W. C. Fields — and dull. (Continued on page 32) comicbooks.com