Judge — May 11, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUV GANG THEY MOV! IES or the convenience of those people whom Tcan- service men deserting to get their man in the desert not meet and personally shake by the hand, 1 reaches of Manchuria, returning with one dead. one am listing a few of the questions that seem to insane and one court-martialed for desertion, Direc- be frothing on the lips of all fervent lovers of the tor Higgin, the playboy drama and movies, with a list of answers which, while of the studios, did some vod work with shadows and soft lights, and a scene | I do not guarantee them as being prophetical, were in the murky depths of a desert potash plant are ay f wed after the utmost. ¢ and study. sombre and effee ive as you'll find in a day's shop- Q. Do you think the talking movie is here to stay? — ping. William Boyd, who is tak on weight, is A, Art is eternal, still masculine enough to put over his | Q. Don't you think the silent movies are better? tumble parts with some grace, and while the comedy | They Taughed at the man who built the first is heavy, and the sentiment a bit thick, “Leather airplane. neck” moves along quickly enough to gi nu good | Q. What is going to happen to the theatre? entertainment. ‘The story offers some yin | A. I hope so. that there is no trench warfare and a wedding in- | Q. What will happen to all the old movie stars? — stead of a love story, so you can forgive the numer- ) A. They will be stuffed and presented to the — ous box-office situations that occur from time to time. ; Smithsonian Institute. o Q. Will the radio, with television, take the place I Have very little curiosity as to the home life of of the movies? the boys and girls who toil for gold under the Nothing will ever take the place of the movies, western sun, but I do wish they would get some the stage, the Republican party or woman in the sleep before they step under the Kleig lights to home. give their all to the public. Q. What is the general state of the movies to-day? William Haines has done some good work, he is A. They won't print that, a good comedi: but in his last two or three pic- | tures he has been slowing down and pulling his 14 Ase se we come to a half-breed movie, “The punches, and in “The Duke Steps Out” he appears | + Leatherneck.” As the title indicates, it is a to be doing a neat job of sleepwalking. The story | story of the veteran fighting corps immortalized in is a perfect movie fable. A mysterious student in | > | “What Price Glory,” the blankety-blank so-and-sos, a co-ed college is really the son of a wealthy man | the Marines. Fortunately, this movie does not show — who entered the ring to show he could amount to French village with its maid milking the cows — somethin (The Tunney influence again.) He pro- ind slopping the hogs with lily-white hands, while — tects his in a night-club brawl, wins the light- the boys toss the front-yard hay and drink her heavyweight championship, the , and the friend- father’s cognac, but includes Manchu and — ship of her father. That is really the story, with | China ad-sweeping melodrama of three mus- two or three minor situations that never once fool keteers risking one for all and all for nothi you into believing that the girl will turn him down. | ing sequences are silly. ‘They diminish ‘The fight shots are worth seeing, which is more than the sturdy effect of the preliminary story of three one can say for Ha nes. The Movie Guide “Alibi” —Fast-moviag crook tallde, Sei” —Toe divvtor — weky Bay"—Hhat_ ot so lucky STB Regeoe™-Even Conrad might . serves annther ace surtience res ts we Gace teks Coquette” Mary Pickford with a “MY Man"—\ non-stop record of the The River" —Excelleat job of the fin fe peme eon to this ianse, "TM Man In The Iron Mask"*—With Outeast”—Very entertaining. ‘Alias Jimwny Valentine”—\ good “The Duke Steps Out"”—In this the man with the iron body, Fairbanks. “Spite Marriage"”—Gusier Keaton at show. “End of St Petersburg” —The Beautiful pictures his best, “Trial of Mary Dugan” “The Singing Feat” — making Warner Bros. a “Brotherly Love” — Arm ant haconer comicbooks.com