Judge — August 9, 1930 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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‘he Trial of Ma Shearer has b more than average 4 mannerisms of the fe Were amusing play as stretched thin i in p thee in that it contained « divorced woman 1 Island to entice « - world from : called to Le other than her former husband, she ends up by ag cuffs with him. in joining hand- » lady's early life ence may be neither puzzled nor inter- course, for the work of Miss Shearer, which is enough to puzzle and be- * combines the rtroom plots. » that silent fellow, for a mob of gangsters. loves in his strong, over a man and he fixes the jur: rd and sentenced , hitherto in love ‘ound to the The girl he with a gangster, slips jail door and whispers that she'll wait for him and then presumably to do cross-word spend any time on this one. “On to Paris,” “The Cock-eyed r “How Love Comes to Vie- I do not know just laughs, and a display of tecth should virility, but tisfied it’s all voung Indy called Fifi spars with Mr. Fox's caveman again, all with the gen- JUDGE By PARE LORENTZ eral idea that know want, ‘T AWFUL thes what they childish Larceny” is the story of a husband-stealing gal who runs afoul a strong woman, Low- is the husband in question ches his eyebrows and rolls es wagyishly, but the dial so wretched and the story so childish he looked pretty silly for all his good intentions. TT present combination of the radio and movie industry is making life more and more complicated. Radio Pictures is advertising in trade journals some of the publicity it ex- pects to use on the public for a movie called “Dixiana.” An advertisement in Variety states, in part, that “Radio hurls songs around planct to sell Dix- iana, Great Broadcast from Fifty N.B.C. stations will pitch the music of g bands and the voices of emi- nent stars into the ether and carry this stupendous ticket-selling bally- hoo to the far corners of the world. The smashing tunes of Dixiana will be driven with a whoop into the con- sciousness of millions of radio listen- ers.” The advertisement then lists Recommended Quiet on the Western Front”— it, but you'll find an’ entertai Moran a The Dawn Patro!—TI ny other kind of p ever seen. Poor w “The Devil's Hollday"—Fast-mov and well produ With Nancy Carro ie Harding and ake this the ace pro- “Juno and the Paycock” production of O'Casey’s P sound and. phote bu cast and beautiful “Journey's End”- ond trip. See it “So This Is London”—Harmless ¢ edy brought to life by Wil Rogers An English Poor a superb It is worth a sec: other devices also aimed at the unwit ting customer, the theatre fume. . all at the disposal of manager. “Dixiana per- » Dixiana drink... . Cigar Orleans Chamber of . . + Dixiana songs for Ki- te... . Men and women, ... this last statement is not ex- plained in the advertisement.) Duel- ing Pistol Contests . .. pennants, ete.”” Now I would be the last to condemn the Radio Corporation for its lack of originality. In advertising what in- dubitably is a definite contribution to American art, I think they have neg- lected a few items and uniess they in- crease their efforts hundreds of people are liable to go about their business without having even just a little bit of Dir securely driven into their consciousness. First, I suggest that they draft a bill. maki Dixie the National An- them. here would be a great storm of protest from some of our New Eng- land brethren, but if Congress were informed that nobody wanted or cared about “Dixie” as a National Anthem, the bill would pass overnight. Of course Radio should buy the ex- clusive rights to “Dixie from the South and then make the school chil- dren pay for the of the National Anthem. The night Dixiana opens it would be only polite for Mr, Hoover to make a speech, even sing ‘Dixie” over a big network, just so movie-goers could be assured that Di was basically sound. Mr. Coolidge naturally would follow that up by a nice editorial, pointing out that the South is really nice place no matter what people s and that, while some people ms there is no doubt but that “ will mi the progress great country, With this added publicity, I am sure Radio can drive Dixiana deep into every one of our little conscious- nesses. And, while I have not seen a preview, I am equally sure that Dix- iana is a lousy movie. sheet music a not Dix- nt step in nd development of our rk a signifi comicbooks.com