Judge — February 9, 1929 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE — JUDGE IN. STH MOVIES Gy By ats s 1 walked into the Paramount to see Adolphe Menjou's latest picture. the me approacl marked awfull customer usher, on seeing stepped out, saluted, and then re “You're the first cighty-five cent had, sir.” L looked at my they were just a bit worn, The shirt cuffs The tie could have stood pressing. However, those weary ch. may out in’ any j That was no reason for insult- we've shoes; were long. cteristies crop purnalist’s carcer, me, Well,” 1 you're said, “that’s a funny a spy for the telephone company sir,” he said, “we're not allowed to speak to who work for the telephone company.” “Neither am 1; that is, sinte the first of IT haven't been allowed to speak vbody over the telephone. But what makes you think I'm the first r the Paramount has had? he said, trying an oily grin Maybe eighty-five cent custor “T don’t know, si on me. fou just are. He was playing with me, “Go on,” T said. He scratched his head a minute with no apparent improvement and then replied: “Checkers, sir, al grandmother and I little pinochle-rummy Saturday nights. But I just a checker fan. By this time the lobby was filled with people nervously standing first on one foot and then on the other, frequently their own, and I knew the situation called for p: a minute he'd brand me before the world as cent He might even tell G ten,” 1 id. * mistake, and id my fine. push rl out of a taxi Ninety-fifth street, yped later with a real estate sa “What's your game?’ though game of Tm Ave ompt action. ive customer. t time in Louisville was g anyway she c And furthermore,” and TP turned so all the champing Paramounteers could hear, “L didn’t: shoot Arnold Rothste So far, that was the conclusion of the affair, but if they use my photograph or my thumb print and label me as their first eighty-five cent cus tomer I give warning that PI bring suit. And buy a new pair of shoes, to boot. As a matter of fact, eighty-five cents is just about a top price for the picture ‘Marquis Preferred.” While it is not a direct steal, the story has that faint reminiscent look of tomorrow deals| with corporated by his creditors into a negotiable marriage morning's Graphic, as it a bankrupt marquis who is. in instrument. There is the American Babbitt family, crudely over done, and the os his first poor girl for whom the marquis de rent Mk Babbitt, thus paying his debts, divorces her and gets a job in New York preparatory to the inevitable happy reunion with the girl he loves. I tell you the story because by: this time Menjou y attempt to be anything but the box office Epicurean, who bays at every trim pair of ankles and waves a lean hand in bored comr anoarmy of faithful servants, and when the is a gentle fairy tale, there is nothin se to report, Once Mr. Menjou appeared to be an actor, when he was wanderi nund the Chaplin Studios, but lately he has developed into a stereotyped « wearisome box-otfice wax-works advertisement inn yen, marries the rich has given up and to story nd-very Tur most interesting feature of “A Woman of Affairs” is the treatment accorded it’ by the censors. As is obvious, the story was adapted from Michael Arlen'’s best seller, “The Green Hat,” and, us every reader of that Hispano-Suiza advertisement (Continued on page 28) The Movie Guide “A Woman of Aflairs”—Revirws! in “The Fist Splendil stmoe phere, with a rather unbel Br fe ina Maryland village. blode “The Crowd” first showing. Cove of Lena Snitv"—\ tral, bea fs story of society wary Vien “End of St Petersbarg”—The finest war picture of the lot, out of Russa. See it if you mined the «aay tana ing. with Florence V “The vable story of “toterterence” —Careful dialogue, but “The Little Wildeat"”—Reviews! in this ismue. “Marquis: Preferred —Reviewe! in this issue. picture in every way “Shadows of Fear”—A powerful matization of Zola’s “Therese Raguin.” “Show Peopie”—\ comedy, with Mari Haines, “The Singing Foot” worth bearing. White Shadows” —Worth pearl-diving alone, “Outeast”—Very amusing, with Co- shar alt Davies and W Al Jolion, well tographs, 3 for comicbooks.com