Judge — August 17, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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ae ae | | JUD GE F’ very sound reasons, the simple psalm-singing Nordic has always invested the Oriental with undue psychic powers and an uncom- fortable intimacy with the devil. No mystery plot is really complete until it includes a slant-eyed son of China with a Coolidge vocabulary shuffling around the house, a hypodermic needle up one sleeve and a pet cobra hanging to his watch fob. A mystery story with a Hindu, Mongolian or Chinaman needs no plot; the moment the trap drummer hits his brass gong to herald the appe fleeting before his Buddha the audience sits up with a firm conviction that the ten commandments and the Mann act are about to be thoroughly violated. The movies, the stag have resorted to this facile m The scene in which the flaxen-h in the locked bedroom with the p long since lost its potentialities for audience they know that the hero or a house detective or a heliboy with cracked ice and r ale will appear before it is too late. However, “et the director throw his little Pansy into a chop suey restaurant crowded with laundrymen reading the stock market reports, and the ladies who just stopped in on tl way home from the bargain basement and the sales- men who decided it was too hot to pound the pave- ments will sit back and enjoy a real nervous lather. The Tong war is a stereotyped newspaper streamer story. A Hip Sing cheats an On Leong on a real estate deal, hires a heroin-choked youth to shoot out the offender's insides, and for weeks Mr. H feature writers prophesy a holocaust of sl warriors. A couple of Italian” bloodletters ; line seven men wall and take them away from Chicago for ¢ ecution is passed off as a Chicago quarrel. The deceased never ironed a shirt—there is nothing sinister in their trouble, Sax Rohmer has been one of the most successful nce of the heathen genu- and the newspapers long of stimulation, ired gal is closeted of the Oriental fabulists, and his Fu Manchu stories have run into scores of editions. ‘The movie Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu,” includes several of his stories. There are two or three murders, some good direction and one good actor. ‘The dialogue i a lot of hooey about “Chinese ancestors fiends,” but if you take your movi are one of those carnest cit “super easily, or if you ns who share the con viction that before another bear market we shall all be murdered in our sleep by a horde of opium- smoking demons, you will find “The Dr. Fu Manchu" good ente 6VYJoxorn or Women” is a torpid dramatiza- tion of a Sudermann novel. In_ its silent moments it is interesting b use of the excellent work of Peggy Wood and wis Stone. When it finally breaks down and barks at you not even the real talent of the cast rescues the dialogue from the depths of banality. Peg; Wood has been a actress of descried fame for many seasons, and it is worthy of ne that her movie début shows her as much an actress under the Kleig lights as she has been on the stage. Three very pleasing children and Mr. Stone, who for once unbends and gets into his part, furnish a polished assistance, but unless you are interested in acting for acting’s sake. yo will find “Wonder of Women” dull and slow movi Mysterious ainment. Cus Bow’s latest: masterpiece is called “Dan gerous Curves.” [haven't seen it, ee Bproceins ” is an old-fashioned story Coast Guard catching boot! Anna Q. ilsson, the Corps, the Commander "Hoover ona whi about. the ers. Tt) Iias st Guard, the Marine Naval Flying Service and everything but ch rin the punch y amusing antique. seene at the end. It is a ve The Movie Guide “A Dangerous Woman” —Very bad “alibe”"—Past-moving. Excellent diree- folly tion and seting in a crook talkie “Broadway” — Fantas tnusie, geod direction, by talkie Version of the famous in the best talkie frie “Cocesnuts” — The Brothers worth seeing in comely not worth hearing “tesocents of aris —A farms old pht. Chevalier anbanatin ble in the Souda Comicbooks.com