Judge — September 28, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE WGING T%eMOVIES saw six movies this week and despite earnest con- templation I still have no clue as to the ty} people who regularly attend movies in this cit nor the sort of entertainment they really enjoy. There was “The Woman Lies.” An excellent cast, good di- rection, and a fairly modern and hard-boiled story, it was enthusiastically received by the audience. Yet this same applauded the Jesse Crawford nconcert. The only answer I have is that cramped for space, and hungry for recreation, the convenient and comfortable movie house settles all problems for all classes. It may not be a brilliant certainly settles everything. A veteran cast got “The Woman Lies” smoothly. It is a disturbingly calm story of two men of leisure and easy morals who are keeping two women in comfortable style. One couple furnished the drama, and Charles Ruggles and his blonde, with the aid of two or three drinking scenes, successfully provided the comedy. audience answer, but it across very Claudette Colbert and Walter Huston gave ex- ccllent performances as the two people seriously en- gaged in working into their environment. A wealthy widower finds it difficult to maintain a private and home life. His children are reaching the age of understanding, and when they discover he is main taining a separate home, they take it into their own hands to bring him within the bounds of conventional morality. The children are too precocious for comfort, but they are of the nasty impudent nature that scems to throw middle-aged ladies into convulsions of con- descending mirth, so it is possible I just don’t under- nd children, nor how cute they really can be. The widower is finally brought to time his children, who suddenly discover all the facts of life, including the one that true love is worth more than a marriage license, and the story ends with the lady, man and the children all happily age and a happy-ever-afterward period. “The Woman Lies” has the best last line of any talking movie to date, and the polished performance of the st is well worth seeing and the gentle- anticipating a ms “Pure Horrestor” was hilariously audience, and I see no re: Taken from the old ste Collier some years and the humor eived by the son to argue with them, avorite done by Willie ago, the dialogue scemed q' Id-fashioned, but it was pleasant « harmless fun. Edward Everett Horton may not bi a W. C, Fields, but he is a charming and gentlemanly omedian, and that rarity in the alone 1 ‘The Hottentot” worth while. 1 do want to obj to the fake scenery and the stage sets. If we're goi to have talking movies they might the benefit of the camera, and throw sets that have been stored in the cellar. school movies well g ; away the old Anayie Case” a refreshing return to old ¢ of detective ste ~ The Van Dine would have us believe that detectives: spend their time in the public library work gambits, but I hold to the school attended by the author of “The Argyle Case” in which detectives have all sorts of mysterious apparatus for taking blood pressure, Wasserman’s, fingerprint and instep Thomas Meighan seemed very much at ease in his first audible effort and Lila Lee did nothing to make it difficult for him. You know from the first who the murderer is, and as there is no Van Dine ending to make you feel silly, I recommend it as a pleasing show. “Sm Street” employs a much used plot with little variation. It is a story of gang life with under- tones of mother, Thanksgiving ord the brother who is a policeman. The movie is, however, well directed and the presence of the three Moore brothers lends a charm and an case that is usually destroyed by the roar of machine guns in the ordinary gang movie. was out chess measurements, I" may be that six movies in two days made me a little silly but I liked almost all of them. “Woman Trap” also used the story of the crook and the cop (Continued on page : The Movie Guide “The Argyle Case” —In this isove “Bulldog Drummeng”—See it, by all means. “Cock-Eyed World” —Cheap, vulgar and repetitious “The Hettentet”—In this imve. “Hungarian Rhapsody"—A pleasing German production “Hel very bad vaudeville seta. tempt of the talkies. nt and 4 Revue"—A collection of “Halletujah"—The one superb at- returns as an excellent comedian “Our Modern Maidens”—In this “Sweet Giet*— issue, but an “Piceadilly"—The best thing the “Side Street”—Io this ismue. British have done to. Silent i “Womae-Trap’ “River of Romance” —Wallace Beery “The Woman Lies" —In this issue. Nothing to Sght over, miable and well-kni Tn this iseue.