Judge — January 23, 1932 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE IJUVGIWG THE MIOV’ [S$ ue United S come this 3 co fusion to me. It happens I do not consider it a major worry, other- wise it alone would be enot me to fall back on my heels until oblivion at the rapidly expanding stomach. less, hardly new center of my Never- a week goes by that and equivocal item re ing cur brave sailor boy does not con- found me. Until reaching the and newspap ling Thad a pretty comforting idea about the Navy. I remembered that old somebody or other “don't give up the ship"— I remember that we blew up. the Maine and that we whipped the British and as far as I was concerned that was enough for any Navy to do. I" was after the doubt struck pened to see som first ause 1 hap- ned to be the entire Nav xing in York river while the is were making nui- sances of themselves by blowing up transports and various other valuable pieces of marine property. I was told the British Navy was doing the dirty work, perfectly fitting, seeing as how it was England’s war, but I never learned, and haven't yet, what our own brave boys were doing at Hamp- ton Roads. I know what some of them were doing, but after all, a whole Navy couldn't have been doing that at the same time. r, before I joined the orders of the writing ¢ owing aesthetic attitude and in Me- Gregor made me reali a fte 1, the Navy was worth all its expense because it is pretty, it is colorful, and they do keep their ships nice and shiny when they pull into Newport, New York and San Diego. (As they haven't done anything else but pull into Newport, San Diezo and New York for ten years to my knowledge that gives them a pretty high rating in cleanliness and deportment.) war that the me, be what see Germ lower By PARE LORENTZ My necessary movie attendance has chilled my enthusiasm for the Navy on the simple grounds that it is un- imaginative. For seven years I have and stern, port and. star board of every cruiser, battleship and sub-chaser in the — service ng through what the newsreels claim are maneuvers. I have sand five hundred and ninety pursuit planes lay smoke sereens for same ships — (another which puzzles me, hoy with a p scen bow seen ten thou- these mancuver beeause a’ small gun should be able to shut his eyes, aim at the smoke screen and hit one of the ships). I also have seen a few grim shots of sunken sub- marines, extravagantly lost with men and expensive machinery —beeause some restless admiral wanted the boys to do something besides walk up and down Riverside Drive. Us™ last year I still had no definite resentment against the Navy; [ simply was bored with the newsreel shots. Since then, however, all sorts of things have happened. Hoover, I was told, had cut the Navy in two. He had reduced its scrapped its battleships. — Endless copy was written about a naval con- ference, the very headlines giving me a terrific headac! All of a sudden a very fierce gentleman was investi- Charlie Schwab had to hustle ‘on and explain what in- terest the Bethlehem Steel Company had in the and the once polite and pretty service began to be, in my Recommended “Arrowsmith” — Splendid, if job of the Le Blonde Craz: comedy with miscast, + and - ready “Hell Divers" exciting Interesting. at nary flying picture “Monkey Business"—The Marx Broth ers in a natural “Street Scene"—Dignified production, with the brilliant Miss Sydney. atimes eyes, something conceived by Oppen heim and Conrad, with spies, cateurs and intrigues. As though that were somebody said Mr. Hoover didn’t even know the names of the battle- ships, or something, and the president ad to appoint a committee to yoa liar, hoped that would be the end of the Navy in the news. But no. They are re i some cruisers which unfortunately well. Furthermore, the Navy has a new airship. And last, but not least, it helped n fairly exciting che melodrama called “Hell Divers” which Wallace Beery and Clark Gable impersonate two loud-talking service fliers. Everything but Washington's monument was used in the picture. And the flying, although overdone, is exciting. The picture is, to my mind, excit- nda for the Navy. The who puts the y in every ? Who wants a bi ‘Are they scrapping or building them? Are they building up the flying corps or are they using the money to build sub- tines that won't submerge? Have we got as good a submarine as the new German o build ships as powe rful pocket cruiser? Who cares about the Navy anyway, and if so, what good, other than its undeniable pleasant customs and color, is the darn Navy? anyone who answer these ques- tions truthful ly and politely, I shall be e¢ two tickets to “Hell Div nd my deep thanks. I'm tired of being confused about everything. prove not enough. *P[eenssn’s Honspay” is the kind of movie that warrants every- thing uninformed critics, the British, say about Written in jargo, the scenario writer starts every conversation with: (Page 28, please) including Hollywood. comicbooks.com