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l-uGertie and Pop Try New Junior Elgo* * * * * *••-The Story of A Flapper, Clothed in Film Language and Shot WMBy IRMA HARMS/^ABBY GERTIE telephones home ^-*that, at the new Junior High school swimming pool, family nights aro being featured. Her dad, who answers the phone, says he gets plenty of that at home and refuses to put on an exhibition in public. Gertie explains that she said '‘family nights” not ‘Tights”—family nights being the* term applied to mixed classes which all the bald eagles, as well as middle-aged elks and moose may attend with their male and female progeny, subjecting themselves to eye-strain and goose pimples through exposure of great open spaces which the newspaper reports and scanty, cotton suits fail to cover, i- Pop's eyes bulge with sudden Interest and slow gin. He agrees to meet Gertie at the water’s edge. Being a merry old salt, he rigs his sturdy hulk and sets out to see.Meantime Gertie shuffles to the cashier and draws a club card which happens to be a joker. It entitles her to a weekly plunge from tho sublime to the ridiculous, and the privilege of raising the pool with her small contribution, along with the heavier plungers whose displacement Is greater. She is given a germ-proof suit and a sterilized towelGertie gets a bis kick out of tho water sports at the foot end of thopool.it isn't ginger ales rop, it's cowl feet. That’s UNE reason why he hangs around the hot dog stand In front of the radiators.which the Irish attendant calls a Turkish .Trophy. It’s an antique gag, but one has to laugh at a girl who can’t keep her trap shut and always gets her foot in it.On the soggy coast along shower-drenched southern aisles, Gertie, taking foot notes with the soft pedal, hesitates to pick up impressions left by the passing generation on Its march of progress from tho old,......... ....... ^;pnthe. county eridVllii isn’t ginger aJea^Pojjbfti'j —that’s • one erobnd the. hot lt;S6g the radlat6rs.:;The; instructor ••'■'isfietiftrCL'_ and Gertie hops of. an; aerial loefT bht’ * *W the feed. line causes and her fuselage buckiei hi.'t$ die. With her • clutch, falls In reverse and 'lahdsVoisr reisponsibllity, scattering :sda^ with a n accu racy; of «i m thati shame a self-respecting grapefiHalt Bystanders, stricken With blindness, bubble, and 'Gertie continues her - desc«nt:'';.#hii ends in a nbse'aivei'''A't':b^';lih#f^i*vfe that she has a toe-hold on .'• career^ of deep-sea fame, but disitluslomnenf ] follows in her. Wake-ah'd.Mr;'dot*j flinches when she discovers -the three sanitary goldfish nibbling! at what appears to be- sea-food ifir cause it’s nails.. •;Gertie is' raoin^tarll^i;^e^^'!iia^ her feet, but: presently.-. occasion and manages to kick out of tho-water; foot end of the pool* ^. The picture-' could be-climax here, with a-: rude spectator who Instantlyfashioned tippler to , the modern tank. She hesitates again to hang her wool and fur trappings in a locker, but is reassured when she observes that it has a ventilator at the top to keep the moths from suffocating.Our heroine enters one of the private undressing rooms, two of which flank each shower. Her experience with showers having been limited to leaky clouds, she figures that the center compartment, sunken several inches below floor level, must be a dressing room for the taller girls and that the perforated disk in the floor must be a hot air register for the loud speakers.This being a screen version, the ensuing action is censored. However, it may be given a veiled description in sub-titles, such as Gertie finds that a cotton suit shrinks from exposure like a modest flapper, and the wildest stretch of Imagination will not allow one to step in if it’s several sizes below par around the eqmtfrrru-Btrt-, If one is resource-fui and slick one may slip out of a predicament and into a jersey without accident, providing one faces the hot water pipe. Gertie solves the problem by pushing the button of the liquid soap container. She fills her palm all of soap, and thoroughly* lathers the shrinking jumper. Facing defeat she slips on the trunks and. Presto, she has a frothing fit because Lux with her.The uncensored stills may now be shot In the open. Gertie enters tho pool room and skids to the end of tho diving beard while a flock of old birds. Including the aforementioned eagles, follow her with eyes and ohs”. The lineup of spectators taking in the side show reminds her ofA close.fjp, who turned tp rubbed wheit! burst Into print. Also the biCI and the goldfish which turned-! tie.to rubber, or of the pious youth!; became a back-alider because let not hia right foot know' what; 'Ml-left foot was doing, but .we-pre^ir| the more pathetic ending v whl«^| shows a gold-fish turning when he sees Gertie with bare.-nwisl gin of inches in her favor, 'maker'i^ fresh start. She hits the altitude ree^| ord for a flip, performer dhd'buriraitl into print. _ ' -
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Sandusky Star Journal
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 10, 1928
Page 13
Full Page
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