Judge — April 13, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUD GE who Hose T of you courageous enough to these from week to week must ly be irked by a feeling of monotony. vhear you justly accusing, “he alws editor, matter of fact, com- ined just recently that I was sending him carbon copics of a review I wrote the summer of 1919. However, while there is absolutely no re: you should be interested in movies or movie reviews other than a means of entertainment, I might impose on you to the extent of reminding you that ther specific for dozens of fiction 1 tributing writers. and multitude of ollow eS asa is are reasons movie There are with hundreds of con are dozens of publishers adept novelists, domestic and foreign. Yet, rating one of the leadi tries of the world, there are only « Iful of movie companies, and all the creative of men know better is chopped and hac! into box shape by a few paunchy, mahogany-desk monotony. zines a indus who The word has been nd the movie com- panies are now ready public the works. As a matter of explan tion, I should like to say that I am exploiting no social or religious erced. movie executives rook the public and les harmed, it's no worry to me. However, that among my friends there a If the me un- c I do know njoy those who the movies as a means of relaxation, and the that the largest movie outfit in the business, the Fox Company, has decided to make nothing but talking movies in the future, means that this form of rel: tion will disappear shortly. Whatever else it develop into, the talking movie with its groani mi al tenors, and its blatting theme songs, is not a relaxing form of entertainment. » these friends say, “Can't something be done So long as the Federal Trade Commission refuses to get the goods on the companies, nothing may rhinery, its can be done about it. Most of the people in your town may object to talking pictures. The very manager of the local theatre may object to them, By PARE LORENTZ MOV" LS However, if the big boys say, “ you talking pictures.” he like it. We're going to give is yoing to take them and W!: it had Phyllis Haver and Louis Wolhe: Shady L 1d no director worth the name, and dr: alon il, at the end of a psendo melodrama of gun-running in Cuba, it broke into faltering dialogue. ‘The titles were unbelievably old-fashioned, there was absolutely no action after the first minute, and you knew from the beginning that the heroine really wasn't a murderess, and that the hero, although a thug 1, really had a heart of gold, and would mak his sweetheart. a good woman of Fer Natety, the all-talking movie, “The Great Power,” was so bad the producers took it away after its opening night here, and replaced it with a Buster Keaton comedy. he t Power” was taken from the play by Myron Fagan, and while it was a flop on Broadway, the movie men were optimistic enor A rich man dr the a more TH fun tom to produce it in its original form. ams he is in heaven and when he gets astral lowdown, wakes up to lead a sweeter and generous life. YHAT Buster Keaton ¢ “The Power” has enough mor ke it worth going many blocks te so funny in places it would be dull trying to explain them. It has no story or plot to speak of, and jumps from a pants shop to a rum-runner with little or no medy which took the place Great see. time, but the spectacle of Keaton trying to don <up ina musical comedy dressing room comes under the head of old-time rough tomit He never fails to serve hut Keaton is consistently funny in this one, called “The Spite Marriage,” and the sound effects are usually good. It saved the week for me, and ht reseue a dull evening for you. nd tumble pan- an ace in his movies, un- it The Moye! Guide “A Woman of Affairs” —G. “Case of Lena Smith” fling easily through Michael Atlen's green of Underworld” serves ar ™ “End of St. Petersburg” —The fint “alias Jimmy Valentine” —\ good tiie the Rumians have bern intelligent. oer “The Great Power"”—I0 this issue. thay Lave™—Arm acl amet tyehy Bey"—Hot not v0 lucky treadway Meledy"—Doo't believe My Man”—\ ron on of the “The River*—Frcellent job of the povel Heat “Quteast”—Very entertaining, Fionn 16 ath the “Shady Lagy"*—In this ive ite Marriage” —In this issue. “The Patriet” movies Foot"—A1 Jolson still weThe Reseue’”—Fren Conrad might ™king Warner Brox. a good buy have hiked! the p “The Welt Song” —Died in transit comicbooks.com