Judge — April 12, 1930 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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| JUDGING TEM IN ne old Westerns are coming I back. The best to probably the best one you'll see —is “Hell's He “The Zane Grey ep many years The Lone S tr, misses being ause of a young lady named Sue Carol, Cast asa gay nineties heroine, she acted every min ute as though she were on her way down to meet the fleet bad in her big moments th house tittered, 1 audience that gets a gold star. The outdoor shots in “The Lone ar Ranger” are magnificent. The boys have learned how to take pic tures since the Broncho Billy days and the stingiest plot sutlices to hold Your interest when it is strung out against a horizon of white-faced cliffs » brush. almost She was so t the entire king another movie and long stretches of s: I prefer horses to tap dancers any day, 1 Star Ranger.” “Festixe Tigers in India” attempt on the part of somebody to dramatize an recommend “A Lone is a lame American) Museum idee Dyott lec epic with the all explorer-lee Expedition. Commi throughout the condescending turers scem called upon to assume you think the rhino is Well, vou're all wre there, children ll tell you about him, ete. ete. Yet three or four times the ¢ 1 panorama of Indian li tures tone 1 tame How mera catehes » that swiftly removes you from the stodgy lecture or the musty Museum. One showed three or four holy men, their bodies lacerated with arrows of silver, bs. and knives; anchorites so starved their ribs met; thousands and thousands of people toiling to the caves to seck re There hundreds of trained elephants in another scene and excellent shots of a rhino, with There was also the only trul © ever found in x verns of the American scene are child. lecherous thing Th movie, despite the many times wolf has been cried. Two female imper- sonators, ay Commander Dyott chose JUDGE By PARE LORENTZ to call them, doa dance that for and sensual understanding put to shame all the Afro-American and Fourteenth Street muscle attempts I have ever seen, The hunting scenes fall below the dramatized “Chang,” but there is an authenticity to the movie that makes it worth secing, despite its long and often tiresome journey. “BY Younseir” is another version of the thwarted-love professional romance, this time utilized for Fannie Brice. If vou like her, you will like the movie. Her songs are of the “Cooking Breakfast for My Sweetie” the comedy of the Semitic dialecti New York E Universal have a newsreel. ning World and It has no sound, with the exception of run nt furnished by Graham MeNamee, the prima donna of radio announcers. — Recently these newsreels gave short glimpses of Com- munist riots in and New York. The Chicago scene furnished « quick shot of a beating an old The more cropped. glance Union Chicago cop woman even closely at the Square Recommended “Anna Christie’ Just talk “Be Yourself Fannie to hear Brice “Disraett” of the stag “Hunting jell's Heroes” playing where 1 done over great Stewart and Davi Piccadilly One of the best of the ven Days’ Leave"—Beryl Mercer a superb characterization of Barrie's war play battle showed five cops chasing one young boy. The audience was in- tensely interested, and when Me- Namee cheerfully announced that “we would have to show these people that our flag is red, white, and blue, and not just red,” there a satisfying number of The Morning World has protested mildly against police brutality during the recent riots, but I presume they consider audiences too far sunk in let care how fatuous Mr. MeN his aids may be. sneers. movie “Cua Express” is another Rus- sian movie, with the usual one- string song about the revolt of the It is an interesting job, for n that so many of these car: nest productions prove to be: it has action and photography. It probably better than it is because the Russians and the Germans have a pe culiar policy of casting movie actors for their characteristics rather than mechanical regularity of features, In “Potemkin,” “The End of St. Peters burg” and in “China Express” they have etched portraits that in’ them selves tell whole stories. I have never zing fa They must have a face department in the Government. Even the stomachs « true to character, Yet all these vir tues are diminished because of the lack of symmetry all ‘ art seems to have, and masses. the ri seems seen such a Soviet “China Ex press” ends abruptly with the uninter esting question: “Whither China?” Uninteresting unless you want your movies to carry banners and lectures. “Mer” is the latest Al cpic. Fortunately it includes no juvenile delinquents with the ex ception of Mr. Jolson. It is lighter and better entertainment than the heavy-handed dramas in which Jolson first) ms Warner Brothers a bull stock. The star s energetic as ever, and until the last few minutes no effort is made to remind you of your old mother. If you like Jolson, it will be good fun, Jolson comicbooks.com