Judge — May 12, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE IN aba iru the aid of the best movie director in has done nothing, suddenly tucks her hair behind her ears and tics into her Hollywood sisters with all the vicious ease of a Chaplin gone amuck. Believe it or not, Marion Davies is the young lady I refer to, and in her latest picture, “The Patsy,” she gives imitations of Lillian Gish and Pola Negri that should throw you into the aisles in the proverbial King Vidor directed this picture, and a very charming young man named Lawrence Gray with several other capable people help Miss Davies to make this the most riotous and surprisingly funny picture since “The Smart § Naturally, the darn thing isn’t perfect, and there are some Scenes that go plain movie, but this man Vidor is a master of | his craft and he and Miss Davies evidently entered into a conspiracy to make everybody from Sinclair Lewis to Lillian Gish feel pretty foolish by just kicking up their heels and showing that genuine bur- lesque can come out of Hollywood. And the titles— well, you will not believe me anyway, so just go and see it. stitches, | Gums never gave his opinion of peace, else there might be some phrase you could tack on to the horrors of post-war wranglin; ou remember hearing about Edith Cavell. It one of the many hideous atrocities tossed at a hysterical public so it would put down its golf clubs for service muskets. Briefly, this is as authorit: unt of the | affair as I can find in the r books: an English lady by the name of Edith Cavell helped maintain a converted hospital in Belgium, Whil doing so she harbored escaped prisoners and sent them back to the English and French, often with in- formation regarding the rmans. She was warned many times by the German authorities to cease and desist, but continued and after many warnings she was shot for harboring the enemy, She ive an saner w (Tee-performaner daily shove “Abe's Trish Row Nest work, I'm afras (Ath Street) = “Four Sena” (Gaiety)—Three in the war, the other one runs a del still going strong. sen | Note: Please o | “Glorious Betry" (Warver’s)—To be and ef reviewed next week. ad Ee } By é PARE LORENTZ admitted her JUDGING MOVIES and was shot, so the story goes, with great ance by the German officers. The t that the affair was obviously gross stupidity on the part of the Germans does not alter the militar the case and it could be labeled as an atrocity. Yet during the war many an orator shouted this gruesome story to an audience bravely facing the devastating heat of a Chautauqua tent and you may be sure more than one citizen heroically threw his entire estate into Liberty Bonds feeling that he was doing it in the defence of Womanhood. A picture has been made by Herbert Wilcox in England based on this story. It is led “T and opens in New York May 15th, ording to Arch Selwyn, who has bought the American. rights, After much controversy, the censors allowed the pic- ture to be shown in London, and it has also been shown in Brussels. So far, Berlin has made no bid for it. As a movie, “Dawn” is harmless éntertainment. It is sympathetic in its treatment of the Germans, showing how they hated to do their duty, and it could in no way offend a reasonably intelligent Ger- man, unless he deprecated its lack of entertainment. It is dull. It has no excuse, other than the nifieance of the legend upon which it is based. our country bein justice of in no way awn” sig- But. what it is, before the picture has even been shown it has aroused «storm of comment. German societies in this country are ainst it—without having seen it. Ex-Ambassador Gerard has entered a protest. He might have seen it in London, but he did not mention the fact in his protest. According to the press, “Anne Morgan, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. S. M rkins and other prominent women urged that the picture be released on the ground it is a powerful sermon a This is interesting. In the first pl pay its money to see protesting ainst war.” why should an affable public an amateur movie just because (Continue on page 2 Mecea)—Marquise cong very well 0)—Mild Harokt Lloyd Charhe Chaplin's ta “The comicbooks.com