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Show GOOD COMEDY. The Croix de Cinema with two palms for daring is hereby awarded Jvloyd Hamilton for hi.s valor in ' I'oor Bov." his latevi two-reel com edy. Hamilton has d;ired to break a false tradition of the movies that 'ta banned comedy In a church and has thereby achieved a comic of surpassing surpass-ing merit. His film by no mean-- ridicules my creed or the churr h jii :in institution. It centers lis comedy In those homely little situations that anyone with a sense of humor eees in church, such as that which Inspired Robert Burns to Indite, those memorable lines about ,oelng ourselves as others see us. Any boy who evei had to put on a Btiff-bosom shirt, i choking collar and clothes that were generally uncomfortable un-comfortable Just because he wa3 going go-ing to church Will appreciate the humor of Hamilton wrestling with j shirt and collar In this picture. That is very good fun because there ave so many of us who were such boys. The seriousness and importance of the soloist Is also lampooned by Hamilton. Ham-ilton. He Is a violinist So enraptured enrap-tured by his own pl.iving :j he thot ' he doesn't notice a bird that has alighted on his bow until he pull9 it under his nose. His pet dog that has followed him just an faithfully as Mary's lamb followed fol-lowed her begins to chn.se its tall, mortifying tho soloist. Hamilton passes the collection plate His garter comes down. lie cannot retire to adjust It. He stops In front of a constable with the plate. The constable show his badtre Hamilton passe? on. That m.iy be looked upon by some as too unorthodox, but who doesn't know someone who acts afl though he will go to Heuven because of tho very authority Invested In him on earth? Some may think that Hamilton wis too iconocla.stlc in the final episode He kneels in prayer. A boy ties the end of the carpet that runs the length of the center aisle to a car-riage car-riage and whips up the horse. Still kneeling, Hamilton Is dragged through the streets of town until he passes an open fire hydrant. He Is w.i shed Into a sewer and the picture ends there. |