Judge — August 18, 1928 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE IN. eT as” starts redom from con- bs HITE Suapows iN THE ventional movie routine. True, there is the conventional South Sea but he is a derelict strictly from choice and not because the little girl back home ran away with the local half-back, and the brilliant shots of the native pearl divers and their hazardous profession take you completely out of the feeling that you are watching a Hollywood movie. For the first few hundred feet the story moves along at a great pace but it gradually falters and finally sits down under the tropical sun and goes com- pletely to sleep. This may have been 5 design on the part of the dire nguid tropical atmosphere, but unfortunately this atmos- phere is hardly unusual in our cathedrals of the tically moving pictures, However, while the story does falter it has char- acter and I do know that I was so in sympathy with the motivation I found myself leaving the theatre with the set idea of slipping down to the Hudson, tak- ing off my clothes and plunging into the river until I located an island where the people lived “like flowers—like the birds.” I remembered just in time that the State of New Jersey happens to lie on the other side of the river. The major premise of “White Shadows in the South Seas,” which has nothing to do with the story by Frederick O'Brien outside of the purchased title, deals with the degrading influence of the white trader on an atavistic but beautiful existence. The derelict doctor, sympathizing with the natives, battles against the commercial proselytism of the Polynesians and is exiled for his pains. Rescued by a friendly tribe, he lives with the natives until the white sails of a trad- ing ship again descend like a first mortgage on this island derelic + By EY PARE LORENTZ unsullied paradise. matic ¢| curate picture is most sequences, car and for the most part added to the pictu Director Van Dyke and his cameramen are to be congratulated for the beautiful photography. its audiences with all the property-man couple of brick- o fer, the much hers JOGGING TeMOVIES Oo The story, after flo it falls short o or as d rtainly worth. s sing native music, were d sound seq movies have burst upon the tender eardrums of tricks of the original movie ed with a fly swatter, a who, fort ats, a drum full of s ni of tobacco, used to sit behind the piano the pantomime of th ture such as there is a logical pl music nd voices were carly flickers. T the » for sound sequ very effective. Vhit Shadows in ordinary movie offers little opportunit - could not be rendered by the eagle-c} mer, Raps at the door, automobile horns, hande ping have labored in their laboratoric the boys from a mischievous inventing of automatic bombs and poison gas, but it certainly hasn't done is it for this our great cleetrical companies much for the celluloid mirror of life. door- Negri ious we oves of an Actress’ a summer mystery p yping addict it ing arms but a comes monotonous and you the rapping for enter is as full of have to f pment. 1 woul it if I were you. The Movie Guide “Beau Breadway.”—Reviewe! in thie “The Gaweho” (Regent, Brooklyn) — inure § Douglas Fairbanks picture with a new and dimonant religious note “Hot Mews” (Loew's Le net too young Bete lesley with difbeulty gton)—The going Wel- ory “The Cirews” (Daly Theatre)—Charite Chaplin's latest mo Silly “Ladies of the Mob” (Loe —Clara Bow doing the same th Ave.) “Farit” (Roxy’s)—Which proves that e tricks. & harem is po place fora burdred percent flapper. Whatever it prover, it inn't worth it “Loves of am Actress.” Reviewed in thi iseue, St.)—Gay and Vider. “The Patsy” (Park Place, Recommended, (Continued on page 28) “The Smart Set Haines, witty, Hilariously funny with Ma Daview doing the only real work she bas shown in tre)—The scene year. Koster Keaton worth the price of “The Racket” (Loew's Vouleville Houses)—The best melodrama of the year with Louis Wolheim “white (Astor) Re ing. ed trap-drum- but unless you are an old sn't worth your time. P ppears from time to time to swoon into var ter the tenth swoon this be all back rpetual undergraduate ai f polo story undering near f being as ac- “Chang” the The sound very effective uences of the id, and a chew nd interpret Prue, in a pic iences; native However, the for sound that Aup- ably kept door-rappi upon dn't go to see yf (4th St.) —Williars | comicbooks.com