Judge — May 19, 1928 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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The Skull (Continued from page 20 thus far boasts is Mr. David Belasco’ American dramatists of _partie- "and who picked ou ularly great promise Marion | Richard Walton Tully and urd Locke. what “The Golden Ag about is pretty hard to make out. Proceeding from the ancient dramatic device of drop- ping into a strange miliew an alien character and exhibiting then the reactions of one to the other, t uthors so garble their materials that one can't make head or tail of them. In their chowder of characters one finds n an old Indian medicine man aviator, a devout New Englander, a war vete a cutie who runs around in ¢ er Pan costume, a woman who periodically, for no disc imitation of Ibsen’s Lady from the Sea, and a small boy who takes off his shirt, kneels and says his prayers. The language put into the mouths of these curios is a cross between Charles Rann Kennedy and J son, The big dramatic moments nible reason, gives an nes Glea- show the cutie encountering ina New York tabloid something that makes her suddenly stop. short and yell out that she is now a | woman, and the war veteran an. nouncing that he can not m the daughter of his host bee: a bomb thrown at him by the late Huns has rendered him a ry logical bachelor for life. his is the kind of trash that our theatre owners are installing in their houses in the hope of bringing back the deserters to the movies. Although I do not wish to give away secrets, my confidential port to me that the owners have fallen into a movie trap set out by the movie people themselves by way of keeping movie customers out of the dramatic theatre for years to come. The authors of the plays called “Kidding Kidders,” “‘T Skull” and “The Golden Age are, I am informed, the Messrs. Adolph Zukor, Jesse Lasky, Louis B. Mayer, Joseph Schenck and Carl Laemmle, who, in order to deceive the Messrs. Shubert, et al., have adopted the pseudonyms Champlin, McOwen, Humphrey, Lonergan and An- drews. any professional nts re- theatre igantic | chee VENTYNE ..and smile/ You can’t help liking the man who has a winning smile. And somehow he gets things done! Teeth count a Jot in a real smile — white with delicious Keep them sparkli Dentyne. It’s a quality gum. Chew Dentyne ... and smile! Extuvstastic As Srrancen (apologetically)—It’s quite cll right. I'm sorry to have to spoil the size of your fish! —Passixe Snow