Judge — January 29, 1921 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE at the Play AST or West. old friends are best” is sing the un not infrequent ninie” with ruses of “Er: mpanied ch ation of the Ca nything like the effect given living sacrifice to an adage e kind « hokdistrue in the theatre, partic to them at the Park Christianity personified by Ku: Py ith those whose calling makes it necessary + *.* Plays like “ Mixed Marriage ret ty see and hear all that the theatre HE. great importance and the delays of although they do not add much to tant things in the acting of — t under auspices similar to the wud, had of worse tal of human happiness unimpe is a very old frie slays produce action of Mixed Marriage” may have“ PAGANS” is, or was, important only as reason like the wailings of the Greek introducing as an aspi in the old tragedies or the beating of — honors a young man bearing the far fror even though her reproducers h her out with handsome n tage settin t for stellar date stanzas, with fresh topics for the famous — the tom-tom at a Darkest Africa religious euphonious name of Joseph Shildkraut. Dickey-bird” song. The old melodies ar ceremony. The idea may be to irritate the play so morbid, unnatural and. unskilf retained, well sung, and it is to be hoped nerve centers toa higher degree of receptivity. made might not be a fair test for even a very | that it is not only a yn of age to main for the things of rea atic importance t good actor. but Mr. Shildkraut gave ' tain that they are, ¢ ir bette come later. Certainly th today. repeated taking ev fence that the play Appi material for comic opera, musical comedy nf of shoes and the putting on of carpet abilities and-music shows than the very best slippers, the hanging up and taking down of vee nd of jazz that Tin-pan Alley can pr gunmen’s caps, the folding and unfolding of a TH pendulum swings from the crudity duce. Harmony and melody still have t black shawl, continually repeated entrances The Pagans” to the opposite ex felight «sme human ears in spite and exits, may make atmosphere. but they treme in“ Transplanting Jean,” built exactly | rsistency azz and its frenzied » tend to exasperate the waiter for real according to the speci s for Fren suggests the very remote action. comedies of its kind. A tirst act of introduc vught that jazz may he the reason for the It may be that by contrast they give tion; a second c a third of dof father fiancée. The htene occurrences which solution. The tri Id not seem so important were it not for son and the latter's charmi the contrast. Mr. Ibsen is responsible for a entany mod deal of this exaggeration of the u t back of it in his case there wasa riage. In fact marriage is the climay in th fancied me which his followers one. the rowe father having as unthinkable as beer with discovered or thought they discovered art in de: ut altho in their ed form by the more or less y hair ear-mi ost exay importance t —, me tor French persons who frequent jazz palaces and ment is a very pu le with jazz lizar etely before m edy and occurs com portant, b RMINIE” without Mr. Francis Wilson real « almo: h his superior with the fair sex, won in r les gh the law says we Because of. ot in spite of, these trivialjties riage the young woman originally: betrothed may have only the latter we are still pers th no denying the grip that “Mixed to the son mitted to see Mr. Wilson in his famous rile Marriage” gets on its audiences. The pic- Giving away the plot, obvious from th of the preposterous Caddy with apparently ture Mr. Augustin Duncan makes of the — very first, is not unfair, for it depends for no lessening of his original wonderful energy old man criminally stubborn through self- its interest on lines, situations and acti ] { certainly no diminution of the fun which ~ conceit masquerading as righteousness is not In the first particular “Transplantin he now transmits from the part toan entirely dissimilar to his also admirable depiction of is not so full of the Freach sparkle ‘ ne ration of laugh-enjoyers. Rurey, the religious bigot in “John Ferguson.” Its could wish, The situations are of retine: the other thief, was always by: way of be effectiveness rests to a considerable extent comedy tlavor and well removed from farce a “feeder” to Caddy, but with Mr on the familiarity almost all of u: The acting is mainly entrusted to those very Hopper in the part. his individuality some sugh character in real well-equipped and highly: successful artists from that imputation. Two other nam Rainey is the stuff that Prohibitionists are Margaret Mr. Arthur Byron the cast. those of Jennie Weathersby and made of.and one of the very best thingsabout The pl them such oppor Madge Lessing, recall the glory that was the him is that we can forever leave him behind tunities as they have had before. and the Casino. Of the new recruits Irene Willi when we leave the theatre abilities do not fits well into a French s Erm Rosamond Whiteside as One of the mysteries of the world is the atmosphere as into that of their own country / Jacvite, in the present case save memory — devotion of women to a man of that type, They: would really have fared better if the from being only a regret continued though they know he is wrecking play had been adapted instead of transferre q It is a law of nature perhaps (working — their own and their children’s happiness by to English, ‘vith its scenes and characters | through the personality of the beholder) his ingrowing'Christianity. Margaret Wych- left French. Mr. Byton is too much of our / which makes revivals inferior by comparison y pictures with fine and broad strokes soil to reproduce convincingly the super | with the remembrance of their originals. In such a woman recognizable asa world type. exquisite Frenchman whose only books. etc., the case of the present “Ermine” this holds though pictured here in humble Irish sur- and despite the badly excused accent Mar- | distinctly not true. For purposes of present roundings. The others are entirely com- — garet Lawrence is,no matter how Americanly compa it is to be doubted if any ch je af the Metropolitan, could MeCahil petent in nventional réles, Angela harming, not of the French temperament | especially sincere imper (Contin:ed on page 29) 20 comicbooks.com