Judge — October 4, 1924 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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He has confected a play that is worse than the one that was called “Easy Street,” and he has made a curtain speech that is even more idiotic than that de- livered by Dr. Willard Mack on the opening night of “High Stakes.” — Which, after all, is no mean achievement. ‘There are a lot of other things I could y about Dr. Sirovich’s opus, but I ob- serve that they are not considered au fait by Chapter XXVI in the “Book of Etiquette.” Iv “Conscreny F,” by Don Mullally, is the play in which the husband learns that his wife has been unfaithful to him and chokes her to death. This particular version of the hoopdedoodle rejoices in a prologue and an epilogue that take the grand prix for pompous banality. Mr. Mullally doubtless views hims as a philosopher and in these slices of hi: drama kindly entertains the audience with his animadversio numerous subjec Unfortunately, however, Mr. Mullally has nothing to say that hasn't been said for the last one hundred years. His lecture: periodically —inter- rupted by a pale green light in which various actors appear at the right upper ‘. These confront. the hero as out of his past. It is all very ay be surmised. — Lillian Foster emerges from the affair with credit. She seems to be a capable actress. on are Vv Cire u's “The Mask and the Face” isadiverting. sardonic comedy, but no one would get wise to the fact at the Bijou Theater. In the first place, Chi Bailey Fernald has adapted all the out of the original, In the second place, Mr. Pemberton has staged all the life out of the adaptation. And in the third place, the actors have acted all the life out of the staging. What results is an ning that triumphantly murders Chi- | arelli’s manuscript. murder is accomplished with the of pains. Adapter, producer and actors work in perfect harmony toward its achievement. They surround — the play on all sides and hand it a concerted wallop every time it tries to be interesting. 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