Judge — May 25, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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lene is a good spirit, a fast pace and a charm ibout “Bulldog Drummond” that makes it the best movie of the year to date. It mystery story for a plot, a formula “de Englishman as the nic relief, but the AS at routine r-boyi dircetor’s sense of high comedy, suspense, and good taste makes all these old ingredients seem delicious and. surpris- ingly unique dramatic condiments. Ronald Colman, first time as an comedy as a talking star, emerges for the actor with a keen sense of ;a quality which the silent movies chilled into hitherto he tor reminiscing over a mystical somnolence; fire than has had no more a break- a boa constr fast of two goats and a chorus boy. Colman has the same good humor and action in this movie that Fairbanks used to put over in those carly rough and able romances of his. He has the best talking voice of any talking yet produced by the | new movies, and his laconic and newly discovered | humor should m: wood, After Colman, the director, F. Richard responsible for the season's best movie. old Mack Sennett con | his first serious picture. ¢ him the white-haired boy of Holly- Jones, is Jones is an dy director. The Gaucho was However, the most important feature of his direction is t he has made a movie | with dialogue—not dialogue with a movie. All | through “Bulldog Drummond” he a with all the tricks of the trade. He used the dialogue to fill in the ps. making “Bulldog Drum mond” the first example of what, let us hope, the future offspring of the hitherto unhappy marr of stage and film. There n “Bulldog Drummond used the movie becomes re several banal moments ut it’s such vod show I'm not ve them any time. Considering the horrible structure of all other talking movies, it wouldn't be fair. [7's suet tet-down to talk about " Harmor I'll get it over witl as possible. The hero, Buddy Rogers, is a jazz band leader, or, as movie Close soon “Alib?”’—Fast and Furious. | “Broadway Melody” —C worst features of Last “Bellamy Trial” —C “Bulldog Orummend”—In this issue. ‘Christiana’ —Mild Land, With Janet Gaynor, rat eMforte hy Mary pagers” ford. Worth sei ine, -. sane tage ‘Close Harmony” —1 Out —Williace Hain “Moah’s Ask —I refuse “tanocents of Paris” —A Fr a lousy yuece. ntertainmen nance in Hole JUDGE | GreMOVIES By PARE LORENTZ The Movie Guide the talkies. parlance has dignified it, a master of ceremonics. The big moment in “Close Harmony” hero, the sweet Mr. Rog comes when our s, is called yellow by his gal, and goaded to Olympian heights by this taunt he leaps to the stage and runs from instrument to instrument, spurring on his men and producing har- | mony undreamed of by the sleeping figures of Bach, Wagner and Debussy. That scene feature assed me. embar: There is one goc a pair of blatant, snarling vaudeville hoofers. Their portraits were chiseled out in perfect outline, and their dialogue comes right off the front page of Variety, They were s rfect, however, they made the love story and the loving couple appear even more asinine than the authors made them, which is in truth an ultimate statement. | Mom n love worried the Greeks considerably some ’ fifteen or twenty centuries ago. Next to war and pestilence the hardy outdoor d to the | | tists came conclusion that mother was man’s worst enemy and severest critic, Later dramatists blithely severed the | umbilical cord and concerned themselves with the | lighter problems of man's struggle with his environ- | ment; the difficulty of obtaining steady work, faithful } wives and children, | Ibsen, Shaw and O° ill in committed the rude error of questioning the felicity of a son having a | mother, and after the American success of “The Silver | Cord” dramatists seemed intent on destroying the | hardicst beam in the foundations of native letters. | Yet there is a sweeter and gentler land: Hollywood. | the new Canaan. During the past three years the movies have spent over three million dollars singing — | songs and shedding tears in a heroic effort to support | the crumbling garrisons of maternal strongholds. The most recent of these golden shafts to be | launched against the brass-bound breasts of our qu | tioning sons is “Mother's Boy.” In_ this talkir | singing, groaning, weeping, chirping drama there | (Continued on page “The Letter” —Jeanne Pagel a good mi farce, Lang and Rath Chatterton ex" 4 iam Boyd melodrama of the Marines in the Ori Worth while All-talking negro th seeing “Syncopation”—One of the worst of ‘Romance ef the Underworld” raited, comicbooks.com