Judge — March 7, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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can, and do it immediately, to pre- serve its life, its soul, its he As Mr. Bru nt per- sonal share in the preservation of the dignity of the theater, we production Bad Wor 1 . che “Ss most rec ve the \ Good This play is. gar- . nothing more or less. Tt is up. snide, dirty—a 1 play called * 1 deliberate effort to grab ina few box-office dollars with obstreperous smut. Its leading tress, as E write, is threaten ing to leave the cast unless the There is only one way to clean the play up, and that way is to shut it up. Tf Mr. Brady really has the interests of the theater at heart, he will have done so long before this appears in print manuscript is cleaned up. TT" taste of London theatrical idiences remains an y. ‘The play) called » Rat’ has been running « there for im pene- myst er something like seven months and has nightly been greeted with so much handelapping that persons residing in the neighborhood of the theater regularly mistake the noise for an aie raid, Just) what there is in “The Rat” to. pre ket of indorsement 1 us difficulty in making out. So far as Lean see, it is simply a poor, old-fash such oa find enorm ned melodrama of the Apache species, as impressive as a small-town funeral and as ‘lof veronal. is the joint confection of stimulating a The pl Ivor writer, tan) a seic movie actor, song y dancer and Piccadilly favorite, and Constance Collier, an The Passenger—Exct ase me, do we ¥ Passing Show (London) actress once familiar to local theater- goers. It is exactly the sort of en- tertainment that these authors might have been expected to write. Its characters are actors, and its di is the talk ¢ melodramatist can, of Course, manu- facture of char: rood show ters sand out of dialogue that is simply ham, but the present playwrights are d that ingenuity. who are merely ac icient in IN At named “Lag “ om view in the ¢ vhouse, but the weath has been too bad for me te Arctic expedition and brave the perils of the 1 fiees in the cause ¢ vig downtown journey s willing to make sveri- rt, but 1 fear that you must wait until spring for news of what goes on in the littl theater so far removed from the hauntsof men. ‘The last time Dmade nalw the trip down to Cherry Lane I didn't get back until the following Thurs- day: 4 it was on a Monday night omning. having lost my way finding myself on Wednesday evening in’ Parker Ford, Pa. the taxi driver having mistaken — the fatter for Seventh Thirteenth street, avenue and wae An explorer in Africa was recently surrounded by a herd of wild pigs, and escaped by climbing a tree. ‘The London pedestri surrounded by a herd of wild ros -hogs, generally attempts to climb a lamyp-post. Mumorist a | We Teach COMMERCIAL ART Meyer Both Company the largest Commercial Art Organization athe orld offers you a practical training, based upon twenty-five years of success. This nationally known organization each year produces and sells to advertisers over 15,000 commercial drawings, This well paid profession equally open to men and women. Home study instruction. Get Facts Before You Enroll in Any School Ask the Advertising Mani newspapers in your city, about Me: Beth Company—let them tell Send four cents in trated book tel cess of our students, MEYER BOTH COMPANY Michigan Ave. at 2600 SL, Dept 39 CHICAGO, ILL. Art 206 Engraving Firms: Secare eseg oot graduates, Write Clear Shin: Be Quickly Cleared of Pi miele ¥ im deve Broptone ‘on the face oF bouly; Barbers iteht Eczema, Enlarged Pores and Oily or Shiny Skin. rite today for my OKLET, FREE (4 Gceis7poxte Stov."— telling tow f cored myself after being aiMicted 15 years. E-S.GIVENS, 224 Chonical Bidz, Kansas City,Mo. ADVANCE be.. ROYALTY will be paid on songs found suitable for publication. hanes manuscripts for immediate examination EQUITABLE MUSIC CORPORATION 1658R Broadway New York City Sarre von’ Free Book ~ Song Wriuing ~ CLASSRINGS&PINS Largest Catalog Issued—FREE loane class, off. Sonc Writers! comicbooks.com