Judge — February 4, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JOUVGING THe ME BW PARE LORENZ Q 4) : read the book, seen the y and witnessed the movie and I'd rather not hear any more about “Gentlemen” Prefer Blondes.” However, it is only air to report that Malcolm St. Clair has made a smooth job of direction and that the author and her husband hi expertly adapted the stage script to the screen. The movie follows the career of the wide-eyed Lorelei without a E tion from the three or four hundred other adaptations of the story with the exception of a prologue showing how the flaxen-curled belle of the Ozarks shot her employer or she explains, when her “seemed to, become a blank “it seemed the revolver had shot him.” There is a very good cast, Ford Sterling being particula excellent Gus Eisman, philanthropic button king. frequency of titles and a lack of plot make mind “Gentlemen Prefer The Movie Guide Performance Daily Shows) invous Shows Only) Rad beet Blondes” tiresome before it) has ground out its full length, but Director St. Clair angles his amera so adroitly it gives the weak fabric an entertaining enough gloss to make it an enjoy- able picture. ne latest’ picture — starring Richard Bartheliness is even worse than “The Patent Leather Kid,” if you can imagine such a thing. It is adapted from Wil lard) Mack's st play “The Noose,” one of those impossible melodramas, and it is just about the poorest thing in every way that I have seen in weeks. In the first place, there are 170 titles, by actual count, and as a title averages about ten words, that gives 1,700 words needed to hang “The her. This is more verbis than an ordi nary Liberty ten second confes sion story contains, so I. shall > the picture for its merits tabloid short I know nothing at all about short stories, too, critici as oa story, as Nickie, acted by square-jawed Mr. Barthelmess, is a rum-runner who wants a home, Mother, and wall mottoes. He (Continued on page 26) young