Judge — December 23, 1922 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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George Jean Nathan’s Theater Page A Schnapps Brieuer I As T have said, Professor Page is as Here in this coon show we engage a troupe ; : worked up as a Bromo Sel The composed largely of obscure amateurs Wie Tike Probition thing ought of the Bightecath Amendment that so far outdistances ge pro- has did it. Damn-Pi makes him froth at the mouth—in Wilson fessional white troupe in the matter of Pa sream-puff, Why essentials that the clocker ean put his try toenforce it, he nds, when a whi watch k into his pocket with perfect lot of the other Amendments have long securit There isn’t a white show the ago been left in the lurch? What about length and breadth of Broadway. that the Amendment concerning the equality can compare, even remotely, with this of thedinge? heres. | Hasany coon been black show in dancing. ; " pegins: Swearing Ce: i elected to the Racquet Club? he inquires white show that is half s the curtain goes up and dovsn’t stop until with a fine sarcasm. Or what about the there isn't a white s riling the “The : he Second Amendment concerning the right ig voices, that can get its of the people to bear arms? he snickers, one-tenth so well. Here sn’t the Sullivan law in New York music show in all of its proud ele- put the kibosh on that? Or what mentals. The » sereen of out the Third Amendment on the in- expe costumes; violability of a person's home? he chuck- there is no smoke screen of big les. Haven't Moe Ginsberg. Sig Goldfarb there are not even good lines to help out Soimevol. the and the rest of the estimable revenue the comiques. Yet the bones (the k. Will A. snooters pinned a rose on that too? Hell. leton of a mu w) produce Te ie en eel peetthe then, proclaims the professor, why that a dozen elaborate Broad- Pee cal Ce eee eetG ea shouldn't No. 18 similarly be given the air? fail to, ‘The reason? ‘The doubt that “Chu Chin Chow to be a dramatic eritic, there is a great women possess the ‘aeculiay ‘talent to be Becthov deal on the side of the professor. The interesting in themsel and to smash sare only trouble with him is that he has that interest across the footlight-trough and Sat 7000 wool a confused a good argument with a good ike so much artillery. Rt Tine proving play. If he were to put forth his argu- ‘ The same , ments in the back parlor of some esoteric AAETERE js in the bacchanalia a girl | “The Wanderer,” and so on, barroom, I should be the first to jump up, J Margaret Simms who dane Having discharged his’ duties success. Slap him on t and,in'@. laud’ San Francisco earthquake; there fully ia behalf of Me, Gest, Wall AcPage aubounce him the successor to Schopen- i," ne named Gerteue Saunders who transferred his affections and typewriter bauer. But Tean’t do as much for him hasn't an ounce of voice and yet can get to William Fox, the movie man, It was lien he puts them forth im a theater. yy effect out of a song that is worth going x'sturn to become Art. And fhe Seater isn't the plage for indigna- 4 mile to hear: lanky darky > with all the old Hen, however well-grounded. At least. named Johnny Nit who can shuffle his not the th rr that is to my ta And, feet better than any white gent I ever » work soon be- : ie Pct fee and be (SS 8 remlh bie prolessor sania laid eyes on; there is a doggy team of Mizner's phrase—like says Will A. dramatizes th what allegorically, * “The Booth ant as a New York World litoris loon the Ku Klux. It begins swearing the moment And he so many Austin Strong marshmallows. There is nothing halfway about Will A. He says what he thinks as un- akably as the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Who is Will A. Pag more benighted of you AMES; was by », then did with But “creat some to Will A. Pag: to write a Broadway box-office Sons—to me—aiss fire; | Like O vons, Greenlee and Dray at is The Bootleggers” am the result, hairy ape, they don’t belong. in its way the true nonesuch, are o but a few samples. And they are worth CCORDING to “The Bootleggers” nine-tenths of the white music shows the only two honest men in America CCUSED for almost two decades of farther downtown, The best chorus a destructive criticism, I to-day pro- Dumber of the year is in this mezzotint ceed to confound my critics with a slice TumMpus: it is called “Dandy.” ‘The best of the constructive stuff, and so give them act finale is also in this exhibits it brings some. ples li down the curtain of the first half of the fallews: cr to iis - the quality entertainment upon as wild a tornado of T thythm as has been seen this side of the i al of the melodies ernment is crooke nt officers are crooker t “ whers are crooke the Anti-saloon Le: is crooked; al millionaires are crooked; all detectives of the / ican musi and the whole police foree are crooked; propo: ut all save a few of the white all poets, It ws, Methodists and performers be got rid of instanter and women are crooked; is their job on over to " Of course, there is something seeing * the blac in what our Wilhelm sa But he says up in Sixty-third street, I i convinced that, with able exceptions, we Y” music show folk who know their trade. (Continued on page 23) songs called * “Runnin? Wild Blues,” m thoroughly the Ameri «ful of honor. infinitely better than the any white scenery and costumes, as I for the ec go well in the Lewicohe Sta 13