Judge — May 31, 1924 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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More Precious than Rubies (Continued from page 18) stole the rubies in this instance I shall never know, as I cleared out before the identity of the scoundrel was revealed to what seemed to me to b larly 1 seated 1 not particu. thless audience. The gentleman ross the aisle from me was, in point of fact, not only not breathless, but was breathing with such mellifluous regu- larity and ease that I fear Morpheus had claimed him for his own. ‘This is the M. Olivier’s second attempt ata pl Like “Backfire,” his first, it is, to put it mildly, somewhat behind the times. In “Backfire,” the M. Olivier rushed into the theater with precisely the sort of play with which Charles Klein had rushed out about ten years before. And in “The Bride,” the M. Olivier has come upon the scene with the sort of crook opus that was considered to be very hot stuff in the days when street were still regarded as a gilt-edged invest- ment. (This last off, A dramatic er money to invest. in anything and really railw rk is just showing “never has enough knows nothing about such things as I have, with such casual intimacy, men- tioned.) “The Bride,’ my “40 get back to minding own business, is a stew of most of stereotyped ingredients of the erook It contains everything from the butler who moves with suspicious mien Prue—What makes you think Jack loves you? Sue— He shows me his bank book more and a good time less. Prize in Judge's 50-50 Contest. No. 16. announced in the April 19, 1924, issue, was won by Mrs. Emma Swanson, Kasota, Minn. Winner of Judge’s 50-50 Contest No. 16 through the proceedings to the flashlight on the darkened stage and from the burst- ing in of the obstreperous inspector from headquarters to the covert passing of a The playwright has not brought anything new to the established shenanigans, and the evening moves along with all the excite- ment of a Mothers’ Day. note from one crook to the other. The acting of the company hired to | deliver the play is, with the exception of the always relial Je Ferdinand Gottschalk, pretty bad. } [assaro Snorr has done an attractive job in the staging of “Peg o° My Dreams,” the musical comedy that has been fashioned from Hartley Manners’ “Peg o’ My Heart,” although he still gives one the impression of having been brought up ina drug-store window. A show that has been staged by Short is so full of red | and green lights that a drunk, getting into the theater by mistake, might be forgiven for asking the usher where the sodawater fountain is. Nevertheless, on this occa- sion Short. has forsworn his passion for elevators. Not once during the course of the performance is a chorus girl slowly hoisted into the air for no reason whatso- ever or a toe dancer lifted into space for the same reason. scene in which a half dozen houris in fancy Russian costumes are rolled back on a movable platform, but otherwise all is as it should be. The result is eminently pleasing, There is, to be sure, one 31 “Land Ho!” | Drawn by Angus MacDonall ri {IS sentimental subject was greeted with universal acclaim by those about to be married, by already married and by those who ever hope to be married those The artist has given this age-old longing exceptional and unique ex- pression in the drawing shown in miniature above. Our reprint original plates on Heavy 1514 x 1114 inches. Price Fifty Cents All will carefully packed and mailed postpaid immediately receipt of your order remittance addressed to is from the engravers Art Mat, proofs be on and Judge Art Print Department 627 West 43d Street New York City They all say GLOVER’S does the Business hing like i hair. It surely does. the Macte only by the H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc. 127-20 West 24th Street New York City ETone of these little beauties right now, and pros tect y: against hold-up thugs, rowdies, et at thesametimeit a the best novelty: Fette case ever invel ‘Made exactly like thin; pull the trig- ger, back flies the'lid showing a full_package of Zour gixarettes. a fun scaring: nds the same time useful POSTMAN on. Money back if not satisfied. PATHFINDER COMPANY Dept. JF28 ‘534 Sixth Aven New Yor comicbooks.com