Life — December 14, 1922 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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When you look on hose and undies In an intimate display, I am filled with grief that Monday’s Not the date when Lire will pay. When you glance at someone’s collars Little do you know, I wot, This may bring me many dollars, Though I fear that it will not. J.K.M. “Ma, if the baby was to eat tad- poles, would it give him a big bass voice like a frog?” “Good gracious, no! They'd kill ‘Well, they didn’t.” (THE SILENT DRAMA 2 Recent Developments 9% (The regular Silent Drama department will be found on page 24) Robin Hood. United Artists— Douglas Fairbanks is the central figure in a spectacular drama which is above praise. The Young Rajah. Paramount.— Rodolph Valentino played the lead in this film, and then left the Famous Players. We don’t blame him. One Exciting Night. United Art- ists—An out-and-out thriller, with some effective comedy relief inserted just where it is needed most. - To Have and to Hold. Para- mount.—Vivid romance of the early days in Virginia, with the usual ex- hibitions of scientific duelling. Skin Deep. First National—Milton Sills appears as a crook who tries to go straight, but fails because he can’t look like anything except a bum. Then someone hits upon the scheme of re- moving Mr. Sills’ false nose, and everything is jake. Trifling Women. Metro.—A typical Rex Ingram cast in a typical Rex In- gram production—which means that it is exceptionally well acted and beauti- fully staged. Anna Ascends. Paramount.—Alice Brady as a little immigrant girl who stabs a villain, and then becomes a great authoress. Miss Brady is very good, in spite of the fact that she wears about six more layers of make- up than is absolutely necessary under the circumstances. Oliver Twist. First National.— Charles Dickens plus Frank Lloyd plus Jackie Coogan. The result is extraordinarily satisfactory. The Town That Forgot God. Fox.—Some terrific thrilks and some in- sipid moralizing. The latter doesn’t matter much. * For Review Next Week—“East Is West,” “Hungry Hearts,” “Singed Wings” and “The Toll of the Sea.” NEW GARTER CROOKED LEGS (Patented) MAKES TROUSERS HANG STRAIGHT The Ideal Winter Resort . PRINCESS HOTEL ached r and Reyal Mail Steam Packet Co. Tanght By Improved Methods school advertisements tell about the great and ever increasing demand for [commercial artists—big pay—equal opportun. ity for both men and women, etc. Very good] This is all quite true, but you must firet be properly taught. Underst: Properly taught! Few top motch arti: ire good ine structors. Very few. By searching through many studios we have found them. A Master Course Is Offered Endorsed as the official training school for leading Commercial Art houses, employing hundreds ofartists.Correct educational meth: ods applied. A practical educator and a corps oftop notch commercial artists, offer students the benefit of 20 to 30 years of high grade ex- perience. 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Same \ czdils, If you like to draw, let's talk: it over, ‘Ask for our book telling all about Commercial het YO cents in stampe for NATIONAL ACADEMY Ne OF COMMERCIAL ART 230 EAST OHIO ST. aa CHICAGO, The Interviewer Inter- viewed HE President of the Young Murderesses’ Protective Asso- ciation, having sharpened her pencil on the sole of her shoe, proceeded to ask the young man who writes the “sob sister’s” stories about murders the following questions: “Do you believe that any young woman, provided she is beautiful, could commit murder, even though she insisted that she had? “Ts it not just as well, when there is a reasonable doubt, to hang the old ladies who may be suspected of murder, so as to give justice a 50- 50 deal? “Do you not think it would be 2 perfectly lovely plan for the State to present each bride with a silver- plated revolver upon the issuance of the marriage license? “Should not every mother her daughters when entering mat- rimony to give careful consideration to the axiom, ‘Spare the gun and spoil the husband’ ?” L; VF. Can’t Get Along Without Dad “I understand your wife and girls are going south for the winter. Aren’t you going with them?” “No, they need me here at home.” Every once in a while a rich man’s son overcomes the obstacle of having no obstacles and succeeds in spite of his advantages. comicbooks.com