Judge — January 22, 1921 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE at the Play URING our \ crime seems angerous time revive The Beggar's Garrick was requested not todo it because it on the stage ith mber of real thieves aur a similar experience his recen rtation Warren's Professio apparently been ir { suppressing “Mrs authorities have in our theatres Our thieves wouldn't get m from “The Beggar's Opera.” They wee only laugh at the 7 methods it Then there were no au no dy 5 nothin tobiles, no picts magazine guns and hut personal courage, blunderbusses, blac ons, and. the for a getaway The only similarity in the assistance their lady friends and. complete understand ing between the crooks ani the officers of th L aw who were supposed to prevent. their doing busin “The restin today Opera” is quaint and. int As entertainment it is amusing in presentation an and it is musical after the hord. I lish, and has evi antique manner of an old harp: pany is entirely I been carefully drille duci in its method of repro may find a public toda among who are interested in the theatre, among the curious diver ntiques of the {among int atres are industrious and "THE little a occasionally do things which have an ay omething besides their own self- satisfaction, Latest of these is Mr, Eugene G, O'Neill’s “The Emperor Jones,” recently brought for matinees to the Selwyn Theatre ~» that it might be seen without the dis comforts to the performances of The Provincetown Players. With the aid of Mr. Charles S. in, a colored actor siderable ability, the play presents a study of negro character both yg and tr First we have the cunning and criminally educated American negro lording it bom- hastically as self-constituted emperor of a West Indian island, populated by ignorant members of his own race, Then fleeing their f con ugeance With so str aul reached the highest pr he has writ- not seem to have ihilities its devel went, bu na play which unquestionably holds th the emoti The action ht darko fest has little b car to de pend on for producir flects. This was a handicap and gave tht feeling of but it als less hazardous colored star. He t 1s of the part, L musical voice lost monotony the work of the suftic its charm th trast in seuod production,but it 1 nethir “THERE is even more exposure than usual 1 The I’ ¢ Show of 1921” at the Winter Garden of the many scantily clad \ dozen young women in cars completely uncovered Shubert id better car of this police hole show is above the former standard and the new fre clephant-dog and the dog, are worth goin Marie Mn Dressler has taken on reenforcement nature, the 3 to see th and vivacity, As a member operatic quartette she mply immense She is a qualified prima donna « tution which Metropolitan Ope Trade ter and girls with a of the Cloak and Suit Of course there re gorgeousness ‘The Howards are the new star comedians, and it may be that they arc i ways that do not depend upon dirt or fanity, ‘Tired business men may rejoice in the knowledge that the new show at the Winter Garden will suit: the tter than t limit said of the really funny N° \ BAYES is cuttin agai piece she calls “Her Family Tree.” course it is largely musical and equally of course it is largely Nora With a knowledge of her abilities and enthusiasm ayes 20 more claberate than usual ith th not prevent the ! ing Nora ud in keeping times but this does ¢ extravagant demands of thi agree ninating 9 "THERE a remainir States of Union ther iction the same microscopic « 1 © have endured and still suffer in the ease of estic affairs of the common: eof Indiana. ‘Thi { the present gen mpleted this literary of all the dining. all the cellars, all attics, all the back-yards, all the children amt all the poor relations of all the forty- ‘There cannot this material, so it is almost time to start on the next State, Let the intimate « place people of the St will take time and none eration will live to see und dramatic all the ns, us play a mean trick on those who are to come after us and use first something more pic- turesque than Inciana and with abitants 4 little further removed from mediocrity This isn’t Saying that “* Miss Lulu Bett” is at all bad entertainm fits kind, but only to register a little fatigue of one string which has been When Ameri vicinity of ston pretty continuously 1 s literary center was in the there was something bout New England types and places, but with this difference, that the rest of the country has never for an wt such literary superiority as all of new \meriea then ». Without prejudice or predilection from having read the book, Jueves. found the play of “Miss Lulu” an ap- parently faithful bat humorous depict not atits its being at all. The artistic sacritice of Carroll McComas in givin present so gen- the same tired feeling instant conceded to nd granted to undramatic and un- Mf very drab life; the ‘ing done so well but at done up her per- sonal attractiveness, even t uine a picture as she made of Ludi, seemed woful waste was true of the fruitful exertion Louise Closser Hale he- stowed upon her portrayal of the lagging So with the ex- f the cast. But it ian who is not sick age 29) superfluous grandmother cellent work of the rest ns that any Indi (Continued ¢ comicbooks.com