Judge — April 26, 1930 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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JUDGWG THEM IS HERE are so many virtuosos on the Gold Coast. right) now, it doesn’t. seem possible that. the factories could continue to turn out the old stuff without some little varia There is nothing new in “The Said No.” It is another made pattern for William Haines. Again he is a young collegian, bouncing merri slong his primrose way. Again tinds the one girl who says no, and he turns to righteous paths to fi happy ending. Mr. Haines is. still funny in his own crude way, but there would ive been little freshness in this had it not been for the fact Arthur, ¢ thor of “Front Page.” wrote the dialogue. I doubt that Mr. MacArthur lost much sleep worrying over the great movie public; nor do I imagine that he felt a solemn duty toward the infant art. Yet all the conferences and credos from the Hays office cannot prevent a n who has a style from putting something of it in his work; dias this particular author has a flair for barroom repartee, you will find “The Girl lit brisk and pleas- ingl at times. And when I say bawdy I do not mean that there are any of the smug devices usually employed by the producers to get around the barbed-wire moral entan- glements set up by Mr. Hays and his hallelujah chorus. If you saw a movie called “Awakening” last year, you will understand what I me An in- hocent peasant girl falls in love with 1 rapacious villain. He assaults her, then “awakes,” and true love enters his heart. Eventually they marry. This is the formula, or rather it is the original movie plot. No church, no censor could find reason to object. The evildoer must either be saved by love or faith or else suffer the w: of sin, Yet in “Awakening” Vilma Banky was called upon to get in and ut of bed so many times the overhead expense for the wear and tear on the nightgowns must have been terrific. I found it dull, but this simple routine cs JUDGE By PARE LORENTZ on the part of the heroine obviously was inserted for those customers with minds that slunber not when faced with the presence of a bed, a lady, and a nightgown. Infinitely more amusing and healthy is Mr. MacArthur's occasional infer- ence in “The Girl Said No” that love, marriage and fidelity are a trinity oc- casionally denied by various outeast members of society and that—shoc ing idea—the evildoers actually relish their misdemeanors. I recommend the movie as good fun, and I advise Mr. Hays that if his producers continue to employ talented authors he will have to exercise necessary care to prevent them from explaining the facts of life to the untutored movie public. tur Next Roos” is a pret good show. The plot, for once, is better than the direction. The . no use of the or sound, usually the only thir ame rs s considered necessary for a mystery movie. Jack Mulhail appears as a police reporter who is to be rewarded with a house in the coun- try in return for a scoop, and where the scenario writer ever picked up an idea like that is one of the most mys- Recommended “Anna Christie’—The biggest thing since Ben Hur--Garho's voice “The Case of fine effort worth fgeant Grischa”—A “Disract™—A pretentious job, with ne old stage show and the precise Mr. Arliss “The Girl Said No”*—Willia and a bumptious and amusing. s ext Room" “in the } Ja good plot A mystery with humor a “The Lone Star Ranger*—Deautiful photography and enough action to make it worth while “The Man from Blankley’s” Rarrymore returns. to these years, See it John medy after all all means. {Men Without Women”—A marine thriller “Plccadilly"—One of the best of the now extinct silent films OVIES G3 ein terious things in the show. ‘There is a rr, a young lady in a cataleptic s and, as T mentioned, a plot that holds up enough to make you stay awake. an old house and [ere Veer is the current prim donna of the passion flowers. Her methods are by no means unique; since the first “White Cargo” all hero ines located out of the Union have al- w nt (which is with Jesse id the srobatic stunts to indicate ed good spirits. (I should except Lily. Damita, who has pulled her hair over her face and giggles.) “Hell Harbor’ is the latest movie in which Miss Velez scampers around with a gym suit and little restraint. It has some good scenery, a good vil lain done by Jean Hersholt, and. the hero who eventually folds the bundle of used the same kept in a big trunk alon Lasky’s trombone) same strenuous unadulter: in his arms and 1 I should have meant something, but I imagine that you have seen it before. “Goury” is so absurd you needn't waste a minute on it. A young man is unjustly accused of murdering the heroine's father. At the last min- ute the girl opens the family Bible and discovers her father’s confession of suicide. She doesn’t, as you might ex- pect, spend twenty minutes locating the warden’s telephone number. He isn't out to dinner and the hero (sur prised as you will be) is not electro- cuted. Almost every week a movie with a death-house scene comes to town. For that reason I recommend a current p) The Last Mile,” to any up-and-coming producer. It is the most powerful thing of its kind. And as there is no sex in it, and as— if you want to make it prove some- —it is a passionate incrimin of capital punishment, there certainly is no moral reason why it shouldn't be put on the screen, | | Hi ban Wn Vit i penal a) comicbooks.com