Judge — December 20, 1924 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Oh, no, they are not buying pigeons for Christmas presents. They put off their shopping till the last minute and are talting carrier pigeons along to insure prompt and certain delivery. Nothing Else But— (Continued from page 18) cannot become his wife because in the long ago she had surrendered to the wiles of a wild Yale boy. My bookkeeper goes on to supply me with the further information that, up to and including last night, I have been regaled with 536 plays in which clergymen have fallen for ex-ballet dancers and opera singers; 217 plays in which the big scene has consisted in either a ringing defense of sex or a ringing denunciation of it; 328 plays in which the young man on trial for stealing a ruby turned out to be the ille rf pin has mate son of the prosecuting lawyer and in which, a moment later, the old serub- woman has turned out to be the cul- prit’s mother, and 509 plays in which nts have locked the door and demanded that their fair supper companion pay the price. And these, if you will take your lead pencil and figure it out, constitute but a small portion of the 8,216. No wonder, then, that Tam a bit fed up on sex and begin to long for a little pure stuff. Tam off the Paula Tanquerays and Fanny Hawthornes and am beginning to long once more for the Little Evas and Cinderellas. amorous anc I am sick of locked doors and bed- rooms and “Oh, Gods!” and “You- don't-mean’s——?" Lam ready again to beli in the stork and glass slippers. These profound thoughts have been born in me since my view of Tom Barry's “Dawn,” my $,216th sex divertisement. “Dawn” falls into the pigeonhole 382. It is the sex play in which sex is vouchsafed —_________—__, Tt is, further, a sloppily written sex play. Ema Dunn appears in her 1.272d mother the ringing defense. role and gives an occasionally stagey but generally effective performance. U O: R younger dramatic actresses who are going in for a try at musical comedy are findingout things: to dismay them. In common with many others, they have long be- lieved that the musical comedy stage was child's play, that all a girl had to do to succeed on it was to put on a pink dress with a lot of ruffles at the bottom of the skirt, sing a little, dance a little, and smile without a let-up from half past eight until Ruth Chatterton is the latest of our dramatic young women to learn that cleven. some one has been spoofing them. Miss Chatterton lias recently tried to prove to. herself that musical comedy, compared with drama, was But, like a number of others who have tried to prove the same thing to themselves during the last year or two, she has discovered that all that glitters is not Ned Wayburn can teach dancing, but he can’t tee like rolling off a log. so easy. h gayety. And there are many singing teachers who can teach a dramatic actress how to sing, but who cannot teach her how to sing glamour into ¢ show. musical Miss Chatterton is a very pretty young woman and one with pretty music-show legs and consider- able personal allure, but her dancing, “Oh, Mummy, U've been ringing up all the afternoon, and such a nice lady keeps saying ‘Hullo!’ to me.” comicbooks.com