Judge — July 20, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUD GE JUVGIW ~ (Gs ay G. Wraurs * it in novel form, dull, and conventional. his villain Man the the Sustainer. has written a King Who Was A King As a movie. it His hero is Man the Destroyer, his heroine, From his directions to the director one ce The King Who Was A King” Von Stroheim epic. It is clumsy and old-fashioned. Practically other scene has a dissolve holism of a leopard, war symbol, comparable the absurd iron man used by Von Stroheim in “The Wedding \ There are three unnecessary flashbacks, heavily retarding the action of the 1 movie scenario. and presented is long. Maker, Woman n Visualize * every sym- with arch,” vie. There are thousands of unnecessary sub-titles. There is a dubious climax. There is one practical, although unoriginal, suggestion in’ the opening paragraph. Many critics have mentioned it, but it is worth re ti The ordinary film today states Mr. Wells, “ There is the long list of the names of people who have contributed to the making of the film. Few of them are known well cnough to arouse serious expec- tation or prepare the mind of the way, and all this... and the trade better deferred until the t opens very raggedly,’ with unmeaning de ations... . vudience in any marks would be My real quarrel with “The King Who Was A King” is that the hero, Peaceful Man, commits cold- blooded murder gre this is ilog control the © and saves the world from another Under the circumstances of the story, 1. According to the story, the British comite deposits of the world with the war, exception of the possession of a small dom American business secks to obtain control of this deposit by a state marri that will unite a power- ful neighboring state friendly to American. business THe SF The here appears and prevents war by or, a world control of the this by making an izing caleomite deposit—he does appeal to the citizens of all the world, and by murde his cousin, who has started a war between the two countries that a as pawns by the British While Wells may acea of the sses of the being used and Americans. well feel that this is the peace future—appeal to the sturdy working « four ends of the earth, he evidence that any time in the possible to make a just appeal to the working classes, and that they will have sense the depth of such an appeal just where has future it will be to understand thor evidently believes: this i is the can The English a land of justice, democratic rule. 1 quote his hero: “The Old World is division and war, rank without servitude and and without hope, tradition From that, this land is eseape That was the sort of thing we used to recite in school thirty years Americanization! The great melting. Getting down to” brass ks, the America of today, of Hoover, of the radio, is as far removed from the idealistic state pictured by Wells as the hope, or idea, of permanent peace. I object to the “The Kin’ A King” it is old-fashioned, and nomical treatment, fantastic, unimportant, pot! scenario of * Who Ws as an eco- and un- because interestin Mr. Wells’ contemporary, Haldane, wrote a much more curt, precise study of the same in “learus.”” The idea of a world united for business reasons is not new, but it is still as far in the dim recesses of the future as Plato's Republic, a Utopia conceived some several centuries before the British Isles produced any lecturers or authors. oe =6) "'e Tark Man” is important only because it is the interests with the important, defenseless little king- '~ most wretched example of the many comedy- dom. The day of the wedding hired agents of — mysteries recently attempted by the movies. It is. British ambassadors assassinate the brideg too terrible to even be funny. The Movie Guide “Bi Drummond — Ar n MEast is East Loo Chaney makes brilliantly directed. The be faces for bo apparent reason. talking movies, with Ronald ( “The Cocoanuts”—Miserabie musical patieaTarT The lart, and a cel, — wathie made bearable by the Mart Jannings movie. aie “Broadway” interesting backs! Ap 2 Mary Pickfo and graceful “Hearts tn Dinie’ movie made ¢ Stepan Fetetit ~All-singine Nesto ‘ “tanecents ef Paris™—Maurice Che- er ning ating French songs, but it as terrible neverthelens. ntiemen of the Press” “The Vatiant”™—Our weekly shipment of motber-tove propaganda