Judge — May 8, 1920 — page 24: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Draws by Weesas Pevwen The Dungareed Drama By Peerirox Maxwent HE revolt of the Amer of it which likes to see iteli in type and half-tones hing and expressing an people Gat Jeast that par o, will overls and ca against the High doubtless its way into the quiet realm the theater. Wh . great Virtue a the commun social scheme are emboldened tu fervently espe Leause so popular as to be beyond er ames slap up against the stage ar Consciousness, With the denim overall and the calico wrapper nic wave takes on the coloring und self-effacing member timir icism, the aforesaid wave anagerial in American hal heatrical entertainment will 1 ulvantage o upheaval before it becomes to general, Doubtless some enter prising entrepreneur of musical comedy is already at work upor a setting of cheese -cloth and my. ballet linoleum, with a arrayed in dungarees and a male chorus done up in twilled drab cotton d@ la mode Give ay an ell of a chance will take a ya LH. CLL. is to be fought to a finish, both in and out of the theater, we m: expect some startling revelations in the play world. The gilded proscenium may give way to unadorned cobblestones, the re served and aristocratic box With its colorful draperies may be displaced by unhewn logs and cheap chintz, the orchestra sol out for a seriated ded tire-plugs. With the economic fever at its irs riy height there should naturally follow an orchestra outfitted with harmonicas, tissue-covered combs and tin fh ss, the usher ss arrayed in gingham smocks, and the program printed on butcher's paper. Not to nor details there can be no reason at all wh meme s themselves should not sell their limousines and ride to their offices on bicyek The box autocrat will certainly have to abandon his diamond stickpin. (hu at tickets printed gers never his superior manner) and will hand on the off-side of lope. C und s 1 on the tails Make-ujpe material will be made of brickdust, whitewash and laundry bluing. Any player, reels, f discarded white shirts. ween mana lors will be ale or female, discovered in a ew suit of clothes will be tined ason’s salary and. com acter attired in burlap une DOS Gradually the simple life will grip 1 the theater and its and he until the last vestige wank and peacefully passed, If we are really launched upon an era of drastic and ble economy the play itself will have to be taken in hand There is, for example, a great waste in the four-act melo drama. Most of them woutd be a half ntation his improved if cut down t hour monologue the good lines all brought to. gether in a few speeches and the at most big situation pulled off in the firstact. In the case of music cdy the expensive lighting effects, the grand ensemble, the Korgeous gowning and the plo” may all be thrown into the diseard. Let us have the love duct and the” final clutch” at the very outset followed by the happy. villagers chorusing the “hit” song of the piece. Let us the story done in tabloid, the irate parent, the songful villain and the songless comedian (Con videw in Willie € s sunt the checks surrounding © summer headyea: onspicuous by their ued on page 30)