Judge — October 11, 1930 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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WUD GIWG THM ue large minority of people who think George Arliss a great actor because he plays Shylock with all the scrupulous unction of a Vassar professor reading Shakespeare at a tea, who nap comfortably during Wal- ter Hampden’'s slumming expeditions with Ibsen, who feel that Eva Le Gallienne is a cultured woman be- cause she produces Spanish text-book dramas, and who regard William Lyon Phelps as an alert critic because he warmly condescends to discuss young writers, will enjoy secing “Lincol Ninety-nine and a half percent of ill historical drama is monstrously boring simply because authors deem it unnecessary to create any dramatic situations other than those worked out by the audience—Abraham Lincoln is a sacred figure, so all Walter Huston to do to establish himself as a great with the ladies’ culture clubs is to turn his profile slowly to the : m hollowly: “We must preserve the Unior D. W. Griffith has exercised care in his picture of the great man who gave the Negroes to the Republican party but he attempted nothing more than an episodic picturization of the school- book legends. As such, it is well done ind the aforementioned group of peo- ple who hold that the theatre is an ex- tension course in culture will find it much to their liking. For some reason nobody in the past decade has learned Shaw's easy trick with this sort of thing. He takes a bust from the hall of fame, puts it in short pants and stands it on its head, thereby intriguing the audience into thinking it is see- ing something novel and refreshing. Mr. Griffith would have made a bet- ter movie had he taken some of Shaw and less Ida M. Tarbell, “Test Boy: a smart movie and funnier than anything I have seen in months. I couldn't find the ogue author among the several thousand names responsible for this job, but whoever he is I credit him has actor JUDGE By PARE LORENTZ with writing the best since the Stallings-Anderson epi bayonet drill was not most too well by Sergeant Brophy, but it is the best piece of satire I have scen on the late, great adventur >. Buster Keaton has finally cleared away the sound machines and chorus girls and turned again to his real work falling front and rear. He must fall at least a thousand times during the refully executed major maneuver; perfect, in other words. ‘There is m “Dough Boys” than meets the eye. It takes the hapless Keaton from. the sidewalks of New York to France, and all the really scnscless routines of the last war are satirized with a heavy hand that nevertheless avoids hitting below the belt. While the action is carried by a series of episodes, they end with a Keaton fall and they move fast; faster than any talkie to date. war dialogue The nly played al- ening, but cach one is ae: sense to Mr. Frank Terree, who is in the movie business, wrote a satirical piece for last month's Vanity Fair that described in de the plot of “None But the Bray Southern romance played some months ag Cooper. Mr. Tuttle has pl: trick on somebody, but I « which of his employers it is. 7 Recommended oment s If you have F the next time. “Lincoln"—If you like your books transferred to the movi “Old English" George. / pus lously stumbling through a portrait of ‘old man mbarrassing Night"—A fa. ish comedy turned fairly well not seen it, school careful transla> mmortality that paganda not standing, the R ns have done another exciting jo “The Way of All Men"—An interest. ing story of a flood, badly directed and poorly acted OVIES bs while we are going over the books I might mention that the Univ News Reel showed a picture of « doctor recently employed by Mr. ener at Belmont, saying that he was paid 00 a nipulation. ‘The quotes the salary $1,000 a day. So much for news in the newsreel. rn. Hays must not be around the office much these days. For the second time in one week a satirical piece slipped under the wire. It is called, for no reason at all, “The Way of All Men.” Sloppy direction lets it fall to pieces but it has, for a movie, a new bs It is, simply, that men faced with one hour to liv rise to noble heig a the end of their sentence naturally will return to their easy cut-throating Naturally the producers could not allow the hero to regain his senses after he has been cooped in a flooded saloon with his sho irl sweetie and leave her for the attractive, intel gent and young daughter of his em- ployer. He rushes the girl to the city hall as soon as the doors open, but, despite the blunt writing and direction and the mediocre work of Dougl: rbanks, Jr., you have an uneasy feeling after all the shouting is over that the author was taking a sid swipe at rel and that, in the mov= ies, Mr. Hays, is heresy. “TD omance” brit R of Miss Gart she up the question again. This time docs unusually becoming clothes, but she is up to her old tricks of posing herself in nonchalant atti- tudes while some man goes nutty. producers have worked a neat in hiring a soprano to dou- ble for Miss Garbo’s double-bass voice, as she is supposed to be an opera singer and they couldn't very well have her singing a baritone solo. If you enjoy looking at Miss Garbo you'll enjoy “Romance.” There is no other reason for going. wear comicbooks.com