Judge — September 15, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE e) UW GANG THe MM OV :conp trip to sce “The Patriot” only increases A my respect for Mr. Jannings and his director, Ernest Lubitsch. The big German is so powerful he makes his compatriots appear vier-maché figures beside him, The main char- acter of the play is the patriot, and Lewis Stone does his best work in this r However, Jannings so dominates the story you feel that the play is ended at his death. You are hardly cognizant that it is tl patriot who has maneuvred and sacrificed and won his battle. You only know a powerful personage has heen destroyed, and there is a distinct let down despite the neat direction, We again recommend that you see this picture at your first opportunity. Tine Sawpust Panapise” is an attempt to jazz up an old story with time out for the collection plate and the anthem. It concerns a pair of carnival fol- lowers who are arrested for operating a crooked con- cession, The girl is paroled to an evangelist and, after traveling with his troupe for a week, she re- organizes his outfit with the practices of a carnival. At the end of her evangelistic period she has adopted a ulary, and the ten commandments, Her partner enjoins her to return to the carnival, but she telly him she has decided to go straight. That night he brings his roughnecks from the carnival with the idea of breaking up the cireus, but finding that the girl is not getting her story over with the congregation they all hit the sawdust trail to save her faith, This little story is enlivened throughout by sound sequences of the tin-pan carnival tunes and the squeaky hand organ, but it would take the Philhar- monic, Gigli, Sousa’s band, Al Jolson, and Ringling Brothers’ circus to breathe real life into this old- fashioned piece. Esther Ralston bites her lip insouciantly in an as mere effort to summon faith and keep the straight and nar row, but the whole business had the faint dusty smell of something resurrected from an_ old nickelodeon loft. F you didn’t have the pleasure of seeing “Oh Kay,” nd if you have never been fortunate enough to have seen Gertrude Lawrence, then the movie may not be objectionable to you. The musical comedy book was written by P. G. Wodehouse, our favorite dramatist, and the movie follows the story serupu- lously. However, our memory of Gershwin’s tunes, and Victor Moore's slapstick render the movie a stupid effort at resuscitation, There are some scenes 1 amusing by Ford Sterling, and the hero is given fair treatment | Lawrence Gray, the most attractive juvenile in Holly- wood. However, Colleen Moore looks as though she were constantly talking baby talk, her usual sereen look, in fact, and her efforts at being gay and mad are most dismal, Remembering “The Patsy,” [should Marion Davies might have turned this into a rea amusing comedy. As it is, it is a stupid job with a | few entertaining scenes and far too many titles. Fe the first time in the short history of the talkin movie the new auditory equipment has been used in ind it is the best talking effort yet produced. ‘he Terror” is adapted from the stage play, anc a play it does not vary much from the usual myste fi formulae. The fiend, the deserted hous the detective are all there, just where they v aw nd re put y in mothballs last year. However, “The Ter- ror” is good fun at times, and the dialogue was handled very adeptly. ‘The actors still strain length ily to give birth to a sentence, and the words still 32) (Continued on page The Movie Guide “The Cireus Charlie Chaplin's lat- “Ladies of the Med.” Clara Bow ext movie. doing the same cute tricks. “Lllae Time.” Stolen fr The Big Para pacts Wings.” and the other war sat months Fai” Which proves that a place for a bu: cent Fay “The Magnificent Flet” Gay ant witty with Florence Vidor. Kee “The Gauche." A Douglas Fairbanks — tnemiad réeture, with a new and disoa gious “On Ki: Reviews! in this isue. “The Patsy.” Ililariously funny ing polo story. It's usasually funny Marion D doing the only real work | she haa shows in years ““Stesenbest BI, dv.” The scene in the shop 2 Bust tt Torrence is worth Keaton ant “The Racket” The best melolrama of the year, with Louis Woll Reviewol “The Terror.” ite in this issue. “The Sawdust Paradise.’ in this ise. i “white Shadows in the South Seas." “The Smart Set" William Haines, the re, with some thrilling perpetual undergraduate, in a very ar comicbooks.com