Judge — March 3, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE rit each season's allot- \ V ment of emotional hash Hollywood always. in- cludes a picture devoted to Mother. ‘This year's lavender and old lace epic was late in ar- riving, but when it d well, the matinée audience [sat amidst just took down its hiro and started to have a good ery before Grandmother had dropped two stitches. You can just imagine Mr. William Fox calling his sce- nario writers and his supervisors and Mr. John Ford (inciden- tally great director) together. “Well, boys.” vou n t imagine Mr. Fox saying, “we've been neglecting Mother Late We've had too many stories about girls nd boys who smoke cigarettes, who stay up late at night. It's not American, We got to make something that will appeal to everybod. Is and 1 Ma offer?” brains shoy plumbers, chorus girls rines. What have we to And you can imagine t of the Fox organi hands and, tears streaming down tion clasping their eyes, respone na sob- JU GANG TEM BY PARE LORENZO 9 | The Movie Guide last ace (Allerton iy howe) “Drums of Love” (Literty)—Armored romance The Last Com to)—Emil Jannines Brooklyn) — vn in this taut. wa | ‘Then the war. ‘Three of the sons ~You must see th OVIES | ¢ and you can’t mix s Mother Lo: 0 And so the brains of the Fox or ganization went forth and made “Four Sons.” May they all sleep in flannel nighties. The picture opens with beauti- ful scenes depicting the beery bliss of what must have been one of the most placid and gentle of countries before the war. We see Mother Bernle as the proud par- ent of four Bavarian huskies. less you are killed. The remaining son had previously emigrated — to 00 ead oom America, so when he enters the 7 trenches with Ame a he is bing chorus that shakes the tapes: branded as a traitor by his native tried walls of the mahogany con- town, However, after the Ar- ference room: “Mother! mistice he returns to America, “All right, then, let's doa good finds business prosperous, so his one for Mother,” you might pic- mother journeys from Bavaria ture Mr. Fox responding. “And — to live with him, remember—no sex appeal—no That is the story, It is well negligée, Love. feel that she is a g Nothing but > going to turn out graphed and considering — the something that will make every fresh angle of the war from the Mother in this hard old world — peasant viewpoint it might have er person (Continued on page 26) Mother directed and beautifully photo. | The dentist. having asked, “How are all the family?”— —the patient— |The wife is in fine health. Oswald is not so good— growing too fast. Elsie is down with mumps, while little Robert—” Saee —insists on telling him. comicbooks.com