Judge — February 16, 1929 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE ¥ you are as sick of having talking movies rammed down your throat as this department, you will not need any long garrulous complaint’ to per suade you to stay at home and put nickels in the piano rather than attend an all-talking performance such as “The Wolf of Wall Street.” No matter where you live, I know your local theatre would go broke if it hooked more than one with the that sparkled in this re Consider it—as it is nothin, and projected on the screen—with the gre you care to conjure Lynn Fontanne, aylor, Edward Robinson st, with Jeritza road show dialogue canned, atest cast for your local playhouse. Let Alfred Lunt, Laurette and Roland Young in the theme song offstage to Kreisler's accompaniment, It's a nightmare, but the original subject is as blood-curdling as a bad dream, With our all-star cast Jy to go, we are shown a rough and tumble self-made Wa all Street operator declaring he is the original wolf of the gold canyons, He is going to run Rocky Mountain Copper to the sky. He then proceeds to draw a chart and tell his fellow financiers: “When she’s high we'll sell, smash the market, and then buy when it’s low.” Imag the shock of this dramatic exposé of the Mach lian manipulations of the greedy ghouls who devour the savings of honest bell boys I haven't 5 sterling drat nd bootleggers ! re to recreate similar scenes from this » but I think you x agree that even the stage cast we presumed to gather before your local footlights would have to break into hand stands, black bottoms and. sleight-of-hand tricks to keep even the fifty-cent seats filled. The point is, the movies probably own or control all the theatres in your town, so you'll just have to put up with blank weeks such wheezy old fairy stories about bogey men of Wall Street happen to come your way. when and earnestly support the welcome entertainment of such things as “The Rescue” and “The Patriot.” In all fairness, Ge Bancroft, Paul Lucas, and Balancoanova did everything good actors could with such lines, except wrap them up, and send them ck collect to Adolph Zukor. nere’s another disappointment in store for you if you expect to sce another good job in Emil Jan- nings’ last movie. Of course, the rubber- German is such a hard worker he settles into a part with the resignation of an old cab horse and creates a character regardless of the inanities of the seript, the title-writer or the rest of the cast. He is always being somebody and going somewhere with that bod “Sins of the Fathers’ is the broken father theme throbs for “The Way of All Flesh.” Jannin again a great-hearted weakling with a pudgy fancy for flighty ladies. Prohibition closes his restaurant, and he becomes an honest, hard working bootle for the sake of his son. The movie is well-directed, Janvings lumbers around in it with his usual splendid sense of char- acter, but the story holds all the sad scenes so long you could have three beers for each one and still not drop a tear, Besides the sickly story, the part of the son is at- tempted by Barry Norton, a very effeminate young lad who always gives me the feeling that he's to charge to stage front, tear open his collar and ‘burst forth into modern poetry. If you have the Fathers, conditions, an obvious comeback to that furnished the heart a passion for Jannings, see but it is recommended under “Sins of no other (Continued on page 31) The Movie Guide ‘The First Kl Splendid phere. w ther unk Maryland vill “interterence”—Careful dialogue oi Man" Fanny Brice is has po tion from the “The Magnificent Flirt” b Florence Vidor sughadews of Fear”—\ powerful Th The Welt of Wall Street’ “white Shadows" —Worth ercing comicbooks.com