Judge — October 22, 1921 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Dorothy Drew in the “Greenwich Village Follies,” Shubert Theatre. But enough of this. Let us take a snap- shot look at a few of the plays lately revealed on Broadway. 1. This “Blue Lagoon,” a dramatization of De Vere Stackpoole’s novel of the same name. The program and advertise- ments announce that the piece de résistance is ‘the big wind.” I am not certain, after seeing the play, whether this re- fers to the storm scene in the last act or to the dia- logue in all four acts. A tale set in the South Sea islands against a fancy background of palms, blue sea and yellow sand, it needs Ann Pennington to make it go. As it stands, it is a tedious thing: the story of a young man in B.V.D.’s and a young girl in seaweed panties who grow up on a deserted island and learn the lesson of creation from nature. Tarzanne, the grotesque, in Benda mask, “Green- wich Village Follies,” Shubert Theatre. 2. “Only 38,” by A. E. Thomas. A sentimental opus about a minis- ter’s widow with two children who gets a belated sniff at the joys of life. The play is a tournament in hokum and is tiresome stuff. Miss Mary Ryan is as artificial in the leading role as the play itself. 3. “The White-Headed Boy,” by 21 Violet Heming and Otto Kruger in “Sonya” at the 48th Street Theatre. Lennox Robinson, the best of the young Irish dramatists. A play worth seeing. 4. “Blood and Sand,” by Thomas Cushing out of our old friend Belasco. Otis Skinner in the lead. The near-beer served in Browne’s chop house next door to the theater is not so bad. comicbooks.com