Judge — December 22, 1923 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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“Keeping up with their neighbors.” Mr. Belasco’s Worst Enemy (Continued from page 13) “Tabooch 1s, into something s about as easy as making “Polly- anna” spicy enough for Frenchmen. Still, she managed it, and without making kindergarten fare out of it, either. Her even by many afe for democ book, together with Maurice Yvain's fetching tunes and a quartet of dancing girls most attractive, goes to constitute a delicately amusing evening. Certain of the principals might easily be bettered— they employ sledge-hammers to drive in lady-fingers—but withal and despite them the Mons. Dillingham has produced something that is quite tasty. il “Tx THE Next Room” is a dramatized my. story by Eleanor Robson and Harriet Ford’ that runs right up to our old friend, Anna Katherine Green, isses her fondly on both cheeks. mnerable stuff of the detective Je entertaining by the manner presentation. I do not like the kind of review that says a play is interest- ing and lets it go at that, but that is about the only kind of review I find that I can write about this kind of play. It is yokeldrama, but it will keep you in your seat. That is, if you are yokel, as I am, to be periodically diverted by the Cock Robin fable. The produe- tion of Winthrop Ames and Guthrie McClintick has been very well managed, and the acting troupe, particularly in the instances of Claude King and Miss Ma Kennedy, is a praiseworthy one. IV * is an amiable little ntastic comedy by the Hungarian I that has been treated by Russell Janney, its entrepreneur, to so elaborate and costly a production that the poor little play is completely engulfed. A play that might have constituted an amusing theatrical evening thus becomes top-heavy and collapses under the weight of the production piled upon it. Otis Skinner has the leading role and massages and gurgles it to within an inch of its life. If you go to the Hudson Theater, I sug- gest that you sit through the play with your eyes closed. ‘Thus unconscious of and irrelevant in iture, joy the little comedy in many ‘ “s much more than you would with your eyes absurdly dismayed and distracted. sufficient 4 was A Modern Advantage Yor NEED not seek the fount of youth As Ponce de Leon did of yore, When, madam, you can read forsooth, The ad beside the subway door. 22 comicbooks.com T ina post Dor we | exci add opel ope can stre hav and unt bur tha ful