Judge — March 17, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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“Officer, they must be selling liquor on this block “Well, what do you expect them to do—give it away?” Judging the Movies (Continued from, page 23) scious, but for the better part she appears just too wide-eyed to be tering anything but complete surprise at learning there is no Santa Claus. HAVE no more tiresome, inconsistent, childish picture in weeks than the William Fox fea- ture, “Four Sons.” Yet the daily press was very kind “Quite a graphic conception of the sufferings and tribulations of a German mother during the World War is unfurled in ‘Four Sons,’ a pictorial adaptation of Miss I. A. R. Wylie’s story, ‘Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters Mr. Hall's review in the York Times, and with the e tion of noting that the battl scene was “disquieting” he had nothing meaner to say about it. Mr. John T. Hutchens, of the Evening Post, admitted that there was one scene which was “wretchedly filmed and a prepos- terous coincidence,” but “having accepted as a premise its unfal- tering tear-duct appeal, this re- porter is ready to admit that not many sob stories have been done much better.” Miss Harriette Underhill, of the Herald-Tribune, expressed this opinion of the great ep’ seen This is quoted from New too slowly after the closing o the war, but the picture as a whole is splendid entertainment.” Mr. Gerhard, of the i World, is subdued theme of the picture: “As such that is a treatment of the subject of mother love—'Four Sons’ is a deeply moving picture.” From these rather sketchy quo also tations you may gather that “Four Sons” is a bad job well done. In other words, the re viewers admit it is entertainment with a purpose, but they all feel apologetic because it is about Mother! Personally, if I were seeking entertainment for mother I should spend my hours at Madison Square Garden rather than the Gai Theater. The job of reviewing is to report whether or not a picture was hon estly entertaining, movi lating. Mother Love is no for a cheap job, yet because a gray-haired old lady playing her first big part is the star of this picture, the reviewers (with the exception of John S. Cohen, Jr., of the u my y. stimu pole ning Sun, and of two reporters) figuratively azin stood on one foot and then the other and. stammercd. that, con sidering everythin was a good movie! “our while well photographed indeed, is over- whelmingly tiresome and it is not a convincing production, “The Crowd” and “The Last) Com mand” put it in the class of ens- turd pie comedies. Ir that the members of the daily press write under pres sure and without the benefit: of leisurely contemplation, but I hope the next time they approach a picture dealing with little mothers they ve their knitting at home. The Highbrow Visitor—I must congratulate you on wughter’s brilliant’ paper on The Influence of Science on the Principles of Government.” The Lowbrow Father—Ves, and now that’s off her mind I hope she will begin to study the influence of the on the carpet. your vacuum-cleaner Passing Siow “Sh—fursht time I ever played billiardsh wish sho many ballsh comicbooks.com