Judge — November 15, 1930 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE JUPDGWG mH MOVIES wap the good fortune this week I see a movie called “War Nur: a dramatization of an anonymous suthor's novel. 1 thank the producers for allowing me to see this show. From the time one of the leading men re marks “You're the kind of girl mother used ton to a nurse who replies, But not by you,” this show de every boundary of credulity. until, final proof, a seduced nurse gives birth to a child under the shelled hospital. Th ion alternates between blood ind sex; the dialogue falters between dull objurgations of war and. flashy barber-shop jokes; and the war seems ed on a front that runs from Paris to Vienna. Not once does in illusion of truth or grace pry its way into this film, ‘The producers no doubt caleulate correctly that a play hout women who bathe and nurse men as well as lay themselves passion- tely on the altar of duty—which con- sists in part of “sending the men away happy"—will wreckage of a te be strete attract enough women who fancy patriotism of this cut to make the tilm a profitable production. Not only is “War Nurse” the crapulous, unpalatable, averous, venal and ill-contrived movie I ever hope to see; it also is scorbutie, im- bruted, libidinous, ree sant, prurient, eversive, ruttish, pith- less, incredulous, swinish, thimble- rigged, stable-mated, preposterous ind lousy. I congratulate Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, who produced it: Edgar Selwyn, who dirceted it; and the young ladies, including June Walker, who lent it their talents. bs aynre It’s Lov makes no at- M tempt to be anything but a com- cdy about football. “It is rather im- portant, however, because it marks the first entrance of football into the big noney. Rather, it is the first time the hays who make the money for the old school have ever jumped right from the classroom to the stage and capi- 1 last season's headlines boldly and without pretense. ‘Maybe It’s most humorless, By PARE LORENTZ Love” concerns a school that needs a winning football team, a girl who lures a group of athletes to do the work, and a comic who is not in the least funny. Mr. Saunders of California, Mr. Seull of Penn, Mr. Harpster of Carne and a gentleman from Tulane whose name I forget comprise the back-ficld of the team that runs through a serim- mage during the course of the evening. The line is composed of equally de serving young men, and I advise the producers to hop to New Haven and sign Booth before he is snapped by some vaudeville producer. As a matter of record, the All- Americans handled themselves as easily as the usual ran of movie actors, and I hope they received good fat sums for their work. If aches en dorse shaving cream and schools build new swimming pools out of the hard labor undergone by football players, I no reason why they should not re in the profits. I also congratu- late Elder Hays. In times past evil rumors ha Hoated from Hollywood, carrying some odors from the private lives of the workers. Now t ball players have been recogn ' the infant industry, L hope it will en- courage tennis players, bridge teach- ers and. tree-sitters—Ameri know the ns who value of clean living and Recommended “BIN, pictur this the Kid" Sty and two excitin’ “The Big Trai*—The old pioneer story, with goad pictures but nothing else. “Dough Boys"—An amiable and sometimes extremely funny burlesque, with Muster Keaton, "Careful treat~ y by an expert Worth seei “01d English” everything but worthy. play laundry ina The White Hell of Pitz Palu” Slow, film, with» marvelous Alpine right thinking—to demand recognition from Hollywood, ‘The very thought makes the world seem a little cleaner and a little brighter. ne Bie Trai.” is not so much a movie as another attempt to sell the public wide film, I said last w that the wide film made outdoor pic tures effective, and we'll let it go at u t. The outdoor pictures, then, in “The Big T are effective. If you want to know what else there is in the show I quote the producer's advertise ment: 1. 20,000 men, women and children 30,000 animals. 3. A boy and girl urged on by love. 4. 485 wagons. 0 Indians. 1 cloudburst. 7.1 buffalo stampede. 8. 1 Indian attack. 9. 1 blizzard, 10. 1 plunge over the cliffs. 11. 1 river, swirling. 12. 1 desert, burning. AX old story and its forcordained £® conclusion are made i entertainment in * crook, whose f war, finds that his tailored features parallel those of a banker, who, con veniently, dies in a German prison camp. The crook assumes the position nd the wife of the deceased banker, evidently an indolent fellow, in that the wife is none the wiser. One of those kind old pinochle players of Scotland Yard knows the crook is an impostor, but he sees the fellow is.in dustrious and a comfort in the home, so he drops the whole thing. Edmund Lowe and Joan Bennett make the show seem slightly plausible. nin” is another Russian movie nd, while it has the advantage of silen nd contains the usual ex ent photography, the monotony of Soviet propaganda’ renders this worth “Old or or “Storm Over Asia, less if you have seen “Turksib,” comicbooks.com aE ae