Judge — January 12, 1929 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JU rsa rough dotumble job. but “Brotherly honest comedy than any Buster Keaton’s last The opening scenes are especially rou Love” movie [ve performance. 1 and show has mor the lavender influence that has ome more and more pronounced in Hollywood the last few years. With | the exception of New York, Hollywood is fast be | coming the leading repository for tenor voices, and if one is to judge from their idea of humor, bass voiced gentlemen on the Gold Coast are becoming as rare as intelligent movie | However, to pass by tl ushers. Turkish bath episodes that open “Brotherly Love.” it swings inte the locale of a prison dominated by a warden who feels that brotherly love will ‘reform hiy hardened patients | Karl Dane and George K. Arthur do full justice to the id and a football tentiaries in which, fe searched when they Heggiate produced in 4 and funny. ane between one thing, the report, furnishes the football and its: ma “Brotherly I two peni substitutes are est bur lesque of ¢ sins yet " is rowdy [> the dimuary issue of the 71) a young lady | those bitter all newsstands) of the American Mercury (pi Leda Bauer writes in Mercury tones (advertised on incompetence, stupidity of movie eritios, ception on page 73: “What exceptions there to be mainly in the weekly humorous field.” fails to expatiate, | wish to go on record as that her indictment is true of all newspapers [have seen except three New York dailies, but that I per sonally have never received any money or other lagni | appe from any movie company ceived an offer), and that T have protests of one movie vice-pres named Imerican dishonesty and She drops a sneering ex are seem As she saving (having stoutly ent, one never re- refuted the advertising PARE LORENTZ DGE G me MOVIES 4 By nager, and one time su Also I wi e (who at no production man ested money but spoke of libe! have no ambition to enter the movies in any y (that is, unless the offer is unreasonable), Also, I'l wager an opera season that, given an unknown subject and equal time for preparation, 1 ri and entertaini subject than Miss Bauer. rrest, ete n write a more ace criticism on any So much for that. al riovel, Di nod job with “The The novel reecived exceptional praise, and the movie very ably supports the mystical atmosphere with which the river envelops the two che p xtep with a difficult: psycholog rector Borzage did a very River.” unschooled river-boy and a lady of the world. The bitter fight which they wage on the shores of the river while they are waiting for the ice to break up (in the river, not in the highballs, you wisecrackers ) is one of the most unusual departures the movies have presented in a long spell. A New York will just not stand for unsophistication, and they roared with delight at the awkward boy presented with the maneuvering of a learned lady, but you may not find it so humorous. 1 thought it v indled with great delicacy, and recommend “The River’ a movie well worth secing. Tee bout “Captain Swagger” to in- dicate that it is anything but another movie, and you can almost see the carpenters hurrying about be hind the studio set. Rod La Rocque and Sue Carroll xo through a formulae story including the American and German flyers who meet after the war and repay that old Beau Geste to cach other. It moves slow] and Miss Sue is one of those comely movie audience ix nothing youngsters who has no more indication of acting ability than I. (Continued on page 31) Two-pertermance daily shows. Consult | papers tor changes. “Bly Man" (Warner's) —As soon as I gets sat “The River" (Gaiety) “The Barker’ (Ce of the stage naceess, with bud | ing Miltoo S (Continuous shows.) therty Love” (Stanley). The Movie Guide “Behind the German Lines” eresting if ¥or re of the German at (Keith's Prospeet, in this ise. The Patriot” ( haven't already, see i comicbooks.com