Judge — September 1, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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| IW. ter the movie was over most of the criti the city met by accident in front of the the: and stalled for a few minutes over ac rd and worn; All seemed a bit h assy-eyed. —N had vy movie. need to say anythin below: the yout We had seen its father, its mother, its une and its cousin dozens of tit ‘JUDGING T=MO rette. a bit tired and ay about the much to s before; there was no it. It was so terrible, so ssual cut and dricd product from the Hol lywood grist mills that there was not even a note of rebellion in the group. As it happe under no oblig neially. s, this mag fin Naturally, if tions to the There was simply nothing to zine and this column arc movies cither socially or there is a purpose to a movie column it should deal with the movies, but I refuse to work at a typewriter on a hot n tin an attempt to criticize material so flimsy, so cheap and disgusting tl one brief ps However, I can at Searlet dy,” pictures. p: with “Lik soiled.” grew inte Lya de Putti weed in an alley: passion flower prince, to “work—or do anything, long as the boy with sideburns place she would g or even take a fourth hand at bridge. If you have ever seen a picture th the Russian Revolution you ha “raround t stir up ac: Lady.” nding t it could and would be dismissed in graph by the dumbest imu to pass his Ellis Island exams. least rehash of 4 grant trying name it. It was “The all the Russian Revolution duced during the last year. It appearing began under the caption: wild, untouched but un- From a weed in an alley Lya very quickly » for her indicating that so as willing to have to the kitchen and who was willir dealt with The Scarlet seen I can take only a melancholy pleasure in 1 that the Russians themselves did the only dramatic presentation of the revolution that has By oz JUDGE VIS? é © ure called “The If you have an opportunity, stay away from “The Scarlet . bw to think my three hours of sheer agony had been wasted. Tr there is the question of Greta Garbo. I have heard reputable actresses claim she was a good actress. All the boys in the back room grow cestatic you mention her name. Personally, I ha always felt that her natural environment: was sup porting a tray in one of Mr. Childs’ restaurants, but I went to see her last picture with the grim resolu tion of forgetting all prejudice and searching assidu- ously for the secret of her universal charm, when She appeared in The Mysterious Lady” and, from her yawning and stretching in the first scene I as sumed that the director had called her to the lot before she had had time to finish her morning coffee. However, as the picture unwound she shuffled from scene to scene with the same melancholy tread and I was forced to assume that the real seeret of the lady's charm lies in the fact that she has the somnolent air of a python who has just consumed a ex © of canned soup and a couple of goats, That may be sex appeal. I'm no authority on the subject. right lethargy. Not only that, but the young lady did have a ch to act in a picture called * and she was extremely awkward. She has a tir of legs, she has rather attractive hands, but her face and her acting would never send this reviewer out into the night to bay at the moon. [understand the young lady is Swedish. There is nothing in her ¢ that belies the prover! dish wit. To me it's down I stories about the ‘The picture, by the way, dealt with the (Continued on page “Het Mews" —The not too young Bebe Daniels going Wellesley with dithculty. Which proves that a harem is no place for a hundred p Whatever it proves, it isn't w “The Gauche”—A Douglas Fairbanks pecture with a new and dimonant religious pute. “The Cirews”—Charlie Chaplin's latest — The Movie Guide “dust Assue. Marrieg’—Reviews! in this “Ladies of the Mob” —Clars Bow do ing the same cute tricks. “Lilae Time” (Central) “Wings.” “The Big Parad other war pictures of recent month. “The Mysterious Lady"—Reviews! in this issue. “The Magnificent Flirt”—Gay and “The Smart Set*—William Haines witty, with Florence Vidor. Kecom- the perpetual undergraduate in a very mended, story. In fact, it's un “The Patsy*—Hilariouly fuany with Marion Davies doing the only real work “Steamboat Bill, Jr."—The scene in thas sho y the hat ahop between Huster Keaton and kinest Torrence i worth the price of adinission, “White Shadews in the South Seas” (Astor) =A beautifal picture with enme thrilling moments “The Racket” —The best melodrama of the year with Louis Wolbeisa, a TM Sarat Lady*—Reviewel tn this comicbooks.com