Judge — February 10, 1923 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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“The dirty coward! Not Letting George Do It by Walter F course there's no reason in the world why George Jean Nathan shouldn't’ review. this stack of books about the theater which are piled lesk—except one. But that is a George unlocked his closet the a bottle of thirty- on my good one. other day and produce: year-old port. I'd even review a Winter Garden show for him, in return for that. an’s “Conti- (Harcourt, u ed by Robert Tones. This is an important It will tell you exactly what the theater of the future was going to be last summer. Unfortunately, the theater of the future hops about so much that the printing presses cannot keep p When gowan returned from Europe, to mond Prichard Eaton begin his autumn activities on Broadway, we gather it was headed for a kind ot circus-auditorium, a sort. of | smaller, roofed-in Yale bowl, in which the actors would be surrounded by spectators on all sides. Jack Dempsey would feel quite at home in this theater, At l gather that realism is on its last legs, and the theater art of to-morrow will be ex- pressionistic. If it isn’t, Mr. Macgowan will be a disappointed prophe Well, we admire the imaginative power of the best of the new stage settings and stage craft as much as Mr. Macgowan does, and w s weary of small, trivial, peephole reali But we don’t expect to sce realism die in our lifetime, nor do we want it to. realism, after all, and the of the innovators is to keep it vital and stimulating. They may think they are ORDER No. 1913 WESTERN SPECIAL +32 or .38 CALIBER n and special hed in fine blue stech Protect Just mail a dollar bill and we will Order NOW. C.O.D. plus postae grips. mely fin Yourself and home. send you one at our low bargain price. straight atic shell ance only $1095 FREE GUN AND NOVELTY CATALOG AMERICAN NOVELTY CO. - 2455-57 Archer Ave., CHICAGO o = Pickin’ a fight wit’ a feller wot’s so big he'd be ‘shamed to hit 'im.” actually they are only soul again. Mr. wan and ie Jones together r t destroy Belasco. But they can help Arthur Hopkins, So more power to them, oO" Er M. Sayier, another dramatic critic, went to Russia during the lution to sce the Russian the: <iged machine guns and Bolsheviki, ack home with a trunkful of pic- His god was Rus- des sstroying it, b of the Moscow interesting book. an interesting sta s the most interesting in the world. The Russians are not afraid of experiment and theory. Afraid they would rather theorize than and, alas! they have more opportunities. But when Mr. Sayler can induce John C, Cornsprout, wife and family, back in his native In- diana, to accept a cubist setting for “Romeo and Juliet,” we will agree to stand on the corner of Lockerbie Street, anapolis, unarmed, and ery in a loud i umes Whitcomb Riley was a It is about bum poet.” In other words, Russia isn’t America. Neither is Germany nor France nor Bo- mia. Will some critic kindly come along and tell us how to make something of our own? nest. Howard Kidd & ly, about es at Auuey,” by Culbertson — (Stewart, Co.) Areal American negrollife: Tt lias been‘acted by Tegroes We shouldn't care to have been present. It is too simply, directly, pitifully true.