Judge — May 17, 1924 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Hokum Hash (Continued from page 11) HOUGH ©. M.S. MeLellan’s Leah Kleschna” was first produced “What a whale of a difference just a few cents make!” Al twenty years ago, it is very much fresher than “The Dust Heap.” True - its hero is a mouthy rooster gi to long speeches on the reform of crimi- s—the sort of thing that passed out of ina some years before Augustus Thomas caught on to the fact and began ommencement theses in the form of plays—but otherwise the melodrama still has a measure of theatrical kick left in its old bones. Some of it may seem naive to us in this later day, and some of { may impress us as a bit droll, yet at writing ho point is it so obviously ridiculous. as the melodrama of much more tage at the Vanderbilt Theater. The revival of the play is made the occasion for the appearat ‘cent vin- ice of another of led all-star casts. Among the £ famous stars in this cast are José Ruben, Helen) Gahagan, Arnold Kortf and Lowell Sherman. There is also an all-star east down at the Olympic Theater in Fourteenth street this week. | Among the illustrious stars in this latter Toots St. Aubyns, Heinie Grab- Mayme Marcellus and Bozo cast felde O'Brien ul i x “Copna.” Martin Brown has tried is sincerely to do an honest piece of j dramatic writing, but his talents are not ~ up to his sincetity. He begins well ~ enough, but when he gets to the half-way | two young men, one a realist where the ladies are concerned, the other a senti- 7 mentalist. The latter marries a girl 5 : known to both of them. After a few —all the difference ; ; i " years spent in her husband's tame com- between just an ordinary cigarette 5 any. the wife elas lode eye on ‘ee J. | and—FATIMA, the most skillful ‘asanova, the other fellow, and makes a | eae * i rendezvous with him at a shady hotel. | blend in cigarette history. tl The hotel burns down and. the wife is ae lost in the ruins. ‘The husband's friend, TREES it ; who on this occasion has been what we ; - may politely call _non-realistic, cannot hussy on more than one night, and all college boys outside of “Brown of H : give away the wife's secret. In the end, — ends miserably happy. vard” who conducted themselves in’ this d howev the sentimental spouse dis manner, they have escaped the notice of a covers that the apple of his bosom was a Brew N’s play, however, is better than the present chronicler. Louis Calhern, ir this synopsis might. indic Some Ralph Morgan and Judith Anderson are i of his character drawing is sharp and — the leading members of the presenting .. truthful, and some of his observations are company and give thorouglily. effective < not without a soupgon of sagacity. The — performances. . whole thing is marred, nevertheless, by “Whitewashed.” by cheapness of writing and the author's A" AY cal * name Eecan't recall, failure to keep his theme dancing some actor wh its first few breaths have been exhausted. has been showi 7 x at the Fifty-second c Some of the direction, furthermore, sue- St Theater. I have started up to sec ‘ ceeds in making portions of the play a it twice, but have so far not made the Ir trifle silly. In the first act, for example, distance. On the first try, I got as far ” the two young men are shown in their as Fiftieth street, when I decided to go living quarters at New Haven. After the into the Earl Carroll Theater and take | manner of stage college boys ever, the another look at “Kid Boots” instead. director causes them affectionately and And on the second trip. T got as far as " 5 . 7 ~ playfully to throw things at each other, Fifty-first street. when a friend gathered “You go in th’ house, kid, an’ ast 14 wring each other's hands in warm com-— me in and before E knew it had me seated \ ” yer mother to let yer have a han’ful i 0’ cookies, then I'll take a lease on ‘#deship and to slap cach other lovingly behind a highball in his flat cight- blocks ‘em an’ give yer one fer yer trouble.” on the back. If there ever lived two away. I shall try again on Wednesday. comicbooks.com