Judge — January 3, 1931 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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ae 1 represent the Chinese as devils preying on our ing flesh, you can palm off practically any mysterious doctrine as to the method by which man repro- duces his kind, and you ean idly con- jure up the grossest’ misrepresenta- tion of war or politics for the movie customer, but he does not like satir The only great satirical movies 1 can recall at the moment were “Beg Horseback,” “A Regular Fello “The Crowd,” and T have been told that each of them was a box-office failure. There is, of course, nothing particularly newsworthy in’ this ob- servation. When our great family nes, Newspapers and club wom- ovelists have spent ten years it is not wonderful that the patriotic citizen resents being told that there is no Santa Claus. The only movie of the week that betrayed even the glimmer of an idea during its haphazard unfoldment was called, for “See America Thirst. good rea However, it was a satire on gang life. and if there is thing the country needs more at the present time it is a good five-cent horse laugh at the modern outlaw. The author of “See | America Thirst” hit the iLon the head when he chose to burlesque the armament affected by our Sicilian gentry. ‘These hoys are so careless of life that even when they go out to shoot some six teen-yearcold moron in his sleep they usually carry a limousine full of ed-off shotguns, sub-machine and clephant rifles. The cabaret se ger’s suicide in are uns, ne and the messe «© America Thirst” s funny as anything you will find in movie houses this year. The two comedians, Harry Langdon and Slim Summerville, are too used to the cus- tard-pie studios to be really good in such a picture, but they do not have to work to be amusing during the all too brief moments the scenario writer was inspired. ‘There are many un- funny things in the picture, including JUDG By PARE LORENTZ a Harold Lloyd gymnastic exhibition, but [can't hold them against the pro- ducers. Even the one song in the show, admirably managed by Bessie on. Love, is deliberate ja The audience with which [ shared this entertainment did not have much fun, and, I imagine, in the future the producers will take care not to out- » the dignity of our beloved gang Is nothing sacred to. these movie executives? “Tue Yettrow Mask” is Mr. Edgar Wallace's idea of « satirical movie. He explains this in an elaborate pref- nd asks us to join him in making this masterpiece a musical melodrama to end all musical melodramas, VIL xo part way with him: I'll agree to make it a picture to end all future pic tures by Mr. Wallace. It) is not funny, it includes the oddest. collee tion of faces and figures and accents I have heard to date in any theatre, and the photography and sound are inexcusably bad. TT Radio Corporation has com- pleted the funniest picture of the 4 and you may see it under the title of “Danger Lights.” Here we Recommended “The Blue Angel—A sombre German with Emil Jannings and Mar Inet rich. ng and foreordained. ut worth a. lool “Feet First’ A Negro comic is fun nier than Lloyd. Amusing at tim “Hell's Angels"—The best picta: of the year | SLightnint lovable, old ; “M vampire Miss Dietrich, cign Legion re: mance that happens to be well directed in parts. “Outward Bound"—The old play solemnly transferred to the screen a splendid cast. See America Thirst” A gorgeous satirical idea lessly produced. a1 UDGIWG HMOVIES? ie have « man, who is all “smoke, steel and iron.” He loves a little girl, eve though she does speak rather unpleas antly through her nose. ‘The friend of old smoke, steel and iron also loves the girl. This is a railroad picture at t there's a railroad in it—and on the night Dan, the he-man, an nounces his wedding, there is a big wash-out up the line, (‘This ix demonstra by a lot h-out water poured over the studio door, a clang ing bell, which and a Louis searchlight under yells and ) The best friend and the girl » to elope. old Dan “that Evidently in down the rail re direction of Chi She does not love gets his foot caught in comes up, tosses him to 3 by the Limited. Being a man of smoke. steel and iron, he manages to live long enough for his best friend to take him on a special train to Chicago, thereby breaking the record for the run. girl then offers herself an, but he forgives her and his fr You may think you know how the dialos goes, but you don't. ‘The hero is dying. He has to be in a Chic hospital in five hours. ‘The manager of the line says: “It's a nine-hour run to Chicago. The record is chours, It can’t be done.” s: “Tecan do it.” lieve you can.” The diviyion dispatcher says: “But. man, it'll cost a fortune—we'll have to clear everything off the tracks. You can’t do that.” Whereupon the ver turns to him and says bro “It isn’t just one man we're raring the tracks for: lroad m: And tl is such thi as this tha proud of the country that has pro duced the greatest movie and electri cal corporations in the world. You might travel the rest of your life, but on no other shores could you find a movie such as “Danger Lights.” seven Sub-hero Manager: “Tbe it’s every ‘re off. It make one comicbooks.com