Judge — June 16, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE R. JANNINGS is on the loose again, this time ina picture called “The Street of Sin.” Of course you have probably heard that) Mr. Jannings is clear off the German war debt with his yearly salary, that he thinks settlement, and that he Germany ere long. Hollywood is a scurvy intends to return to Even so, this picture must gripe It suffers from that usual Holly lack of story. 1 the x did it, but of course him exevedingly. wood malady This is « more ntable in that) Director Von Sternbe what Mr. Stern berg had in mind and what the producers let him do probably two different things. Mr. Jannin, plays the rile of Bill the Basher, a limey bully. A Salvation Army lassie enters the community and Bill gets religion for the lewd purpose of depleting ti ranks of the Salvation Army. He enters the bedre | of the starry-eyed heroine, and when she leans are ward in seventeen or eighteen yards of flannel nig gown to pray for his soul, he t ts religion in earnest and realizes that a good wom. erful than a g Iycerine. And there you are. He gets shot later on, while protecting the women and children from a police raid, but there W'S prayer is more pow- rd safe-cracker’s nitre is your story Mauritz Stiller did a good job of direction, and of | course the big | seem very real | that. had the 1 fellow makes even this putrid. story times, and there is little doubt but Is been so kind as to mount. offic: give the boys just a teeny piece of a story to work with, “The Street of Sin” might have n worth your time. But that’s the way with these big officials just as absent-minded as. lovesick school boys, that’s what they are. There is one other slick feature to this picture—a magnificent new actress who s din and stole the glory of “The Man Who Lau "Her name is “The Tempest” (Embawy)—Mr. Bare “Te the be kane 8H (Astor “wings” (Cr papers, Lindbergh etsy" (Warner song writer ally ch (Continuous show “The Crews” “The Man Whe Lavghs™ (Central This oor is not woeth & tee f the Bug Para 220, bat ite an By : PARE LORENTZ (2) The Movie Guide Olga Baklanova, and her work in there two pictures has been most unusually superior to the efforts of the highest paid inhale-exhale ladies in the West. ALTOGETHER, it was just a terrible week, and then Herbert Brenon took Lon Chaney and went on a movie spree and turned out the lousiest piece of infantile entertainment To have gazed upon for many It was taken from Bishop Belasco’s master picee, “Laugh, Clown, Laugh.” and it is. the awful lot of tripe dished out of the sunkist lots since “Unele Tom's Cabin.’ months. most Psychiatry, according to this story, is a game comparable to ping-pon unconnected incidents (incluc 1 bedroom scene in the first thirty seconds of play), we find a profligate ||| count and a clown meeting in the office of irlor ind, after a maze of aoneu gist. The clown is addicted to crying, the count to laughing. They decide to get together to laugh and cry off their respective maladies. You can. imagine i the fun they have. I don’t want to go on with this. Chaney, as usual, | plays the part of a clown with a breaking heart, and in order to cure himself of a suppressed desire for his ward he falls from a tightrope on his neck, and after sitting up to make a few appropriate remarks such as “Ah, the comedy is ended” and “where do we go from here?” takes his suppressed desire and passes into the Great Beyond. There was another jewel of a title which declared: | “Swell guys like him don't mean marriage when they give pearls to tightrope walkers.” I hope that will i convince you, “H's Tiger Lady” is not half bad entertainment, and Menjou and Evelyn Brent, (Continued on page 29) Lost Command.” 1 worth Peautifull f Hollywe “Steamboat Bill, Je.” We “The Street of Sin.” Review! in th “His Tiger Lady.” Heviewo! in this fen ugh, Clown, Laugh.” It ciewnt in oSkyserapers™ (8 Patsy” (Hanoy s of Hollywood comicbooks.com