Judge — January 30, 1932 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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JUVGI I :vER quite understand why movie heroines always have to go so far to be betrayed. Unless the be in the villag zed, no heroine would have been forced to go to Cuba for her downfall, although I will ad- mit people are more careless in Cuba than they in Kansas. The heroine of “Forbidden” seems pretty silly to me, right at the start, because of her long journey to Cuba for one good sin When she falls in love with Adolphe Menjou (who, by the way, is. still suave and likable, but still in need of some cod-liver oil and some good fattening food), has a chece-ild by him, while he sits in the House of Commons prosecuting the poor as district at- torney, when she moves into his house in the réle of nurse to their child, when she marries a city edite then I lost interest in the heroine and everybody else in prbidd because I knew it was for the ladies and the ladies only. 1 did, however, enjoy one section of the show; in fact I felt quite satisfied and entertained when Miss Stanwyck up and shot the city editor who was hounding her lover. (She is, of course, pardoned, because the city editor is just her husband.) Ralph Bellamy makes what some reviewer called a creditable newspaper man, whatever that might be! Sisters” was not the w last year, but it ovie that comes TEPPING close wx the booby prize for all time. I have been a little bitter about this show for a long time by cause I paid three dollars to see it in Chicago last April on a rainy, windy night, in the anxious hope that it would take my mind off the city and its charming people. For fifteen min- utes I sat paralyzed at the spectacle of some lavender chorus boys, Blanche Ring and four or five s hands screaming in front of some trellis-work meant to be the summer home of a Long Island millionaire, and throwing the packed house into fits of laughter JUDGE G THE MOV ILS By PARE LORENTZ by their performances. the place and went to see Will Rogers in “A Connecticut Yankee,” staying for three performances. I already have used up more than three dollars’ worth of space on the but if vou want to see large, ged women yell and scream about the when they carried spears in a ‘burlesque show—if you want to see an hour of it, rush to Sisters.” If you are this ve njoy Stanle Smith, who handles part of w called the love “Tous Rrekirss Ace” has a wild, misleading title because it is mere- ly the re-creation of a play written in the era when American youth was charming, childish in its drinking, not gaunt and epileptic. that’s the way the youths who s' out by being childish and funny in their cups strike me now. And if this be treason, I don’t get asked out much anyway.) The movie is well-cast, Shannon, old “Buddy” Rogers, and particularly Richard Bennett, put charm into the homespun, rather sick- ening chara ions of a gentle poverty-stricken family mildly caught in what now is called a new economic age. T crept out of interest. and Peggy ur Goose Hanes title of the play) a loving mother unassailed by doubts or re- yrets. It has three hare-brained chil- Hiau” (the Recommended “Arrowsmith” T haven't seen it, but on Miss Hay “Blonde Crazy tumble nd erama naval flying We don't get n this one again. “Frankenstein"”—Miscast tious, but fine movie effects Whale. il repeti« by James dren who are taught to understand. who give up their roving ways when papa loses his job. It has a gentle father who fights to keep his little brood secure. It also has a smug patronizing air about it that does not sit well in a day when people are starving without so much charm or good humor. I am sorry good talent and able production was used on it. lL" Dacoven is actress who od fortune to look like Lynn Fontanne. She has appeared in good German movies, she is a star in her own country, she has more ability than a majority of the imported passion flowers who been introduced to us with gr i + Mature have shout- and meetings-at-the-boat. It only proper that her producers should choose for her first picture a cheap routine story called “The Woman from Monte Carlo.” It is about spies and a woman who loses her honor in the If you have not seen Miss s well worth s it for her next picture. It couldn't he worse. wi int or THE Rio” is nothing of the sort. It is “The Dove n. I do not know how many times this has been filmed, this story of the “worst caballero in’ all Mexic but there is no question but that this is the worst one of the serics. Dolores Del Rio makes an insipid, lifeless heroine, and Carillo makes a good People may. think ny sense and that I'll keep on going to see things like “Girl of the Rio” and be calm about it, but just as soon as Greta Garbo, Clark sable, Norma Shearer and Lionel Barrymore are put in a show called “O'Brien of the Northwest Mounted” or anything that has to do with the frozen North; when the movies finally do that, something is going to happen. I know a lot of people who don't like this country at all. comicbooks.com