Judge — June 21, 1930 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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ITH interviews, lecture en- ements and luncheons, the Russian movie director, Ser- uei Eisenstein, is bein, to the country. Mr. Eisenstein has been loaned by the Soviet Govern- ment to that old radical group, Para- mount, and he had hardly set foot on our Republican soil before he was snapped for banquets and speeches and toured around the town in Rolls- Royces by the local proletariat. The Amtorg Trading Company, the Am- kino Movie Company and even their vernment may be suffering under the delusion that this sudden dancing welcomed in the street over Russian art is merely a prelude to a local revolu- tion, but if they have followed our en- thusiasms during the post-war period they may discover that we have passed rapidly from Mah Jong and the promotion of Negro art into a Soviet trance without danger to the Republican party, and Mr. Eisenstein would do well to sell short while the market is high. While I do not share the local opin- ion that Eisenstein is the messiah of the infant industry, his work has been so little distributed over the country it deserves praise. His latest: produe- tion, “Old and New,” is by far the best thing he has done. It is admit- tedly propa eture to the slow-witted habitats of the steppes on the blessings of co-operative farming. Eisenstein. makes it as palatable possible by grouping faces and f against setting suns, decayed hovels; and it is this knack of design and pho- tography that has brought him de- serving fame. His method is simple his characters are used as dummies, pigments in his color sc How ever, Murnau used practically the same method in “Sunrise”; and Chap- lin, with old-fashioned equipment, was secking this effect in “A Woman of Paris.” If the best directors in Hol- lywood were given carte blanche, al- lowed to pick their cast from the population of the entire country as the Soviet allows its number one di- | “The JUDGE GANG THeE™ By PARE LORENTZ rector, there is little doubt that Lu- hitsch, Vidor, and a half-dozen men could give the Russians real competi- tion at their own game. While Eisenstein does not possess a startling new technique, the pres- ent Russian hysteria has so affected the producers they will let him work unhindered on the Gold Coast, and whatever he does will be worth seeing. To me the sight of hundreds of Inter- national Harvesters turned over to millions of farmers producing crops co-operatively was more significant than the beautiful designs of Eisen- stein, and if you want a good tip on the next war to end competition, try to see “Old and New.” A" n the excitement of “Ladies of £% Leisure,” I dropped into a soft- drink palace to relax over a bottle of pop and was immediately presented with a menu that had the following comforting message attached: “The Loft Candy Company I tasted your ‘Ladies of Lei- sure’ sundw, made expressly for me, and am using Postal T ph to say I consider it most Recommended | “AN Quie he ton the Western Front” Devil's Holida: alert, with Nancy Carrol A smart ¢ with very httle t war movie try, with a by Colin Clive The late a, the R “South Sea Rose”. loose-jointed farce fr ocast with “The Man From Blankley Barrymore in his first’ good “Young Man of ‘ al, alert start to ( g OVS? 2? and refresh a nderful tribute to the picture ure both set for record runs and that Loft sundwe and Columbia production will meet with popularity. Banuana Stanwyck” While I have not consulted my law- r, I am taking the liberty of assur- Miss nwyck, the Columbia company, nd the that on behalf of the ¥ » Inc., the rtuble typewriter people ders of this page that I “Ladies of Leisure” and that I know of nothing to stop it from being shown from city to ci Am terribly, terribly sorry. “Mprsteny Istaxn” adapted from a very unsuccessful play known as “Hawk Island” and the dis interred play is given a fitting second funeral by the movie producer. It is really the old story of Woman Tri- umphant, as Chester Crowell aptly Is it, and as the heroine who tricks the murderer into a confession after a transparent and awkward scene hi pens to be a wood-pulp-thriller writer in love with her work, the applause was faint and scattered at the final embrace. Cc ara Bow’s latest movie is called “True to the Navy.” I read all the advertisements and all the news- paper notices and gathered that Miss Bow is cast as a waitress in love with a gob; that she ends up by being true to the boy; and that she now sings as well as talks. Miss Bow is rapidly adding to her accomplishments, and T have no doubt but tha time she will be able to ride yele without using the handlebars, juggle thr oranges at once and hang by her toes from the parallel bars. “However, she'll have to be more than versatile to be anything but obnoxious to me, while “True to the Navy” may b masterpiece, you'll have to find out for yourselves. Loft company Judge Publish Remington and the re: have seen was ca a comicbooks.com