Judge — July 7, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE UD GIN G THe’ = IN —_— By PARE LORENTZ | vr will probs rt As a great surprise to the makes one wonder how he can tind di arner Broth but To feel it my such stupid work while there is a st duty to inform them that Free Silver is ne lon; a political question; that there was a World War to make the universe safe for Democracy that laid off y pleasure in left: in the country, | | stors yates of the Movictone newsreels are great. ‘The about ten years ind that t rplane has come te noise of big spectacles is particularly etfeetive stay. These facts may not am you, nay, even Bat this doesn’t mean that hackn 1 dialogue pro- | | interest you, but since the last masterpiece unleashed vides a stronger medium than pantomime. Besides, by the brothers Warner is a talking replica e that ay has been pointed out bearded old stag “The Lion and the story is so flimsy it can’t stand Mouse,” it is permissible te assume that they have been so oceupied in their res fecting the Vitaple | to review the politic: If you do not remember the play, possibly your Pardon, grandmother will tell you about it. Of cour: the I supplied with sic | Vitaphone is supposed shieve- ment, it is possible its manufacturers felt that so long and if this suggestion is ever carried out it might even happen these military ushers would find their » the ordinary movie orite nversation ent in this column Tast week that Raymond Grithth had joined the United — | f the moving world. Artists company. Tt was Caddo Productions instead. arch laboratories pers Pisin: way an announe they have had ne opportunity I changes 7 be such aimarvelous us thing has pe so far it has been sug; that movie reviewers b as the characters were audible it made little ditte | what they said. | One thing is sure: the talking pictures spell ob- uniforms not entirely a masquerade. After all, under | livion for many of Hollywood's fairest. In this pics such circumstances you wouldn't mind giving an | ture the gentle-faced Miss McAvoy is called upon te usher a military funeral. | | | turn savagely upon Lionel Barrymore and hiss: All this is called forth by the viewing of the latest | “Money can't: buy everything, John Ryder,” and crook picture: “Ladies of the Mob.” | when she enunciates this with the quaint nasal accent Until the last reel, it is beautifully directed with of a Cotton Belt railroad brakeman calling off an ingenious suspense crowded into each sequence. Then | Arkansas station, 4 ya ing that all is not it becor monotonous beeause of lack of story. right. Not by Clara Bow is the featured heroine of this: story. | Again, the marvelous ease with which Barrymore She is supposed to be the rip-roaring “it girl of i handles his lines as against the amateur delivery of — Hollywood, but, while that may be perfectly true, as | his compatriots easily proves that, since the movies an actress ‘she exhibits all the poise of a fat lady | must return to the technique of the stage, the stage cranking a Ford. She never leaves you in doubt as to vill reward its old-timers by showing they know just what emotion has gripped her little mind. When their work. Barrymore saves this picture from being — Miss Bow st: vthing, a total loss, and when one hears him polishing off t control, counts. ten, forward mid-Victorian lines of this cheap movie, it again (Continued on page 28) | —_— = — 3 The Movie Guide (Ts “The Man Whe Laughs’? (Central) tecont, Dull story and mearvelow flying “Mew to Handle Women.” [eviews t ' ‘The best movie yet turned out by ther pretures. in thas issue, company. Realistically done, and inter- “Dawn” (Times Sjuare Theatre)—Un- — exting. (Continuo wes only. Programe uae “Ladies ef the Mob” Reviews! in ally good acting in English tally change oa Saturday) thin imwue, with a dall story, apart from ita “Trail of “34% (Astor) —Goeel camera mignifica eflects and excellent pocture that grows vo Gis a iC eatremely dell before fta conclusion. —Vindor'a brillant dire “The End of St. Petersburg” (Ham HTemely sll befor Se ian merstein)—Probably the greatest w “The Tempest?” (Embassy) —Ge | Picture ever fied, dente ita aby photography and Joba 1 tora of Soviet propmganda, that i sufieient, well and “The Patsy”? story welll dire Rules wn and ap I movie, St. Mark’a)— An wovie with Willeans “Chicken 3 la King W's And St.) —Aavasing pies (asp eee ee wise avoud it ™ ay heather sheik “The Gauche" (Stati : “Lien and the Mouse (Warner's). “Wings”? (Criterion) The in all hus elewy, with "4 | In this tasue ying prctare that is ertting a theme comicbooks.com