Judge — January 17, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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a ¥ Mr. Scribner and Mr. Belasco (Continued from page 23) French innkeeper, exiled from La Belle France, wistfully ruminating over Fontainebleau in the spring- time. The Burnet piece is labeled a comedy. So, for t matter, is what is labeled “Very Fine Old Port” often only California claret. What the Burnet piece is actually is a farce so inexpertly planned and written that it remains simply a popular magazine short story. If the play were taken down in short id, cut by two-thirds and illus- trated with a couple of drawings showing the heroine sitting on the arm of a chair stroking the hero's hair and the hero sitting on the arm of a chair stroking the heroine's hair, it would find a ready market with half the magazines listed in’ the Authors’ League Bulletin. The company drafted to act the play is as dispirited as the manu- script. Grant Mitchell plays the prosaic husband who thinks he loves another woman exactly as he has played his last ten or twelve réles; there is as little change to him as sre is to a penny. Margalo Gill- hows few signs of comic talent snues the role of the deserted young wife in a way to make the Fairbanks Twins bite their nails withenvy. Diantha Pattison is mis- cast as the trouble-making other woman, Miss Pattison may have a variety of talents, but one of them is not the natural gift of convincing an audience that she is the kind of woman a man would leave Margalo Gillmore for. Il tat noble old Roman, Louis Mann, is with us again. The indefatigable Louis’ newest. vehicle is called “Milgrim’s Progress.” The car owner who tool: his friend, the magician, info town and then had | great difficulty finding a place to park the ear. “Milgrim’s Progress,” to get to business at once, is something awful. I do not wish to do the eminent and distinguished Louis an unnecessary injustice, but it seems that the fellow has an almost uncanny genius for picking out terrible plays. — I honestly believe that if he were to be led into a rathskeller and told to select a play for himself from among such dramatists as Rostand, Hauptmann, Shaw, Galsworthy, Porto-Riche, ssa and Bena- vente, he would growl something to the effect of rerdammte Kuchenfresser and bid the bus boy hustle out for Sammie Shipman. “Milgrim’s Progress” is the cham- pion bad play that our friend Louis has thus far hit upon as a master- piece for the promulgation of his histrionic talent. And it pains me sorely to report further that on this particular occasion our friend Louis’ activities infinitely more with mere promulgation than with histrionie talent. are concerned IV pm Barry's “The Youngest” takes the prize soup plate for presenting us with the season's most This hero, who is a hero with the full indorsement and loud hand-clapping of | the author, is a young man who, because he tries to be a writer, though without a trace of skill or talent, is yet set forth by the author as an artist and, as such, greatly to be estimated above mere proficient and prosperous business men. This comes as a strong dose even for those of us who haven't precisely — the Magazine's magnificent appreciation of proficient and prosperous business men. Incontrast with Barry's artist even the operator of a bootblack stand seems a hero to most of us. Barry gives evidence of being a talented young college boy, nothing more. He looks upon the world with soubrette eyes, seeing only the showy surface of things. Once in a while his manuscript reveals a glimmer of sophistication, but that glimmer promptly vanishes like a glowworm. Henry Hull has the name part. He portrays a young artist in terms of a musical comedy juvenile who has had a couple of snifters of fusel oil. Genevieve Tobin is a nice-looking little girl, but nice-looking little girls are not necessarily actresses. nonsensical hero, American tae Virginia reels are reported more popular than the one-step in the moonshine districts of Virginia. a1 \Way Beteath the Surface ! ! | 1 | 1 | e2 ILM ~@) Penetrates to the deep-lying joints and muscles and quichly drives and soreness of Neuritis, pon below for the free Stein-O-Lite Send Coupon for Free Book STEIN-O-LITE CO., Dept. 21 133 Floyd St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Please wend me without ¢ Neeis O Lite 45 Day Trial Otter Name Address City JEADING profession. h dA, als, like Carroll Mar- f tin, famous trombonist j of Isham Jones’ Orches- tra choose Conn instru- ments because of Conn supremacy intone, tune, mechanism and ety play: ing qualities. You'll get ahead faster with a Conn, socially of professionally —win new friends, make big money if youchoose. Carroll Martts Cultisate Your Musical Bump | Conn is the only maker of every instrument for band; saxophones, trombones, cornets, etc. Write now for Free Book “ Success in Music and Howto comicbooks.com