Judge — June 20, 1931 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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HE—“So, you have come away without my copy of JUDGE. A fine start for a summer vacation.” SHE—‘T'm sorry! Vl write JUDGE to send a sub- scription to our summer residence. We just can’t be without laughter.” 620-31 JUDGE, 18 West 48th Street, New York, N. Y. USE Please send Judge for [) 1 year, $5.06 THE weeks, LITTLE COUPON 10; to Name . years, $7.80; O21 | | ward life and CTHE THEATRE (Continued from page 16) said a mouthful. The silent pictures died not so much because the talking machine was invented as because the public got tired of mere shadows of human beings. The talkies have given those shadows another little shove to ctuality and so. hi gathered the public back into the pic ture-house fold, but that the public will in time get tired of the talkin; shadows just as they got tired of th mute ones is pretty hard not to be lieve. With the tiring. the public taste will obviously and automatically it prove, at least in small measure. A person fed up with dime novels natu rally turns to something better. And so, coming back into the theatre. the currently lost movie audiences will be ready for something better in the way of drama than they are at present Even the talkies call for a higher de gree of what for the sake of argument may be called intel silent films did—the zere d the optimist: may accord ingly hope for a still further surpris ing progress that will ultimately lead nee than the utter calling for | the sereen devotees back to the play | house. It will, of course, all tuke time, but the financial troubles that the movie companies are already ex periencing—if we can trust the pub lished reports—begin to indicate th: way the wind is blowing. In less than five years, I predict, that wind will be a hurricane, Nathan Recommends “The Band Waxon” (New Amsterdam! A jolly revue, headed by the Astaires, Frank Morgan and Tilly Losch, fully worth the gat price “Once in a Lifetime” (Plymouth)—A farer about Hollywood that up your laughing mu shion. “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” A smooth! with the K. Cornel as Lizzie (Empire house) —Althoug tufl, here ct freshly you may be fed up on s that handles the ly Gilbert and Sullivan Repertoire (Erlanger) Kevivals of your old favorites. Further com ment unnecessa’ “Rhapsody in Black” (Harris)—One of the Lest of the colored shows, with k's choir Davis’ jazz orchestra and Mad Ethe Ww “The Green Pastures” —(Mansfielk recommending it to you for mor r now, so behave yourself and go ar it'and give me a rest. Notes on Other Exhibits “A Modern Virgin” (Booth)—Cheap whiffle with the attractive Mlle. Mar; Sullavan in the leading role. “Old Man Murphy” (Royale)—Arthur Sic clair’s fine performance in shameless ould sod hokum. “The Mouse Beautiful” (Apollo)—As sw and noble as Pollyanna’s grandma. EOWAUD LaNGLE PRINTING CO, ING, JAMAICA, MT comicbooks.com