Judge — May 30, 1925 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Back: of ecrery man’s success—there’s always a woman! As the movies do it, Confessional (Continued from page 16 the way to pass a great evening. 1 have read the thing so often and seen it acted so often in’ the | twenty years—[ once saw it pl in Deumark by two different com panies on the same day—that, if 1 were up in my dues to the Actors’ Equity Association and had some new spats and yellow gloves, 1 conld jump in and play any part in the play from Rosmer or Kroll to the mill race. It is all very well to pretend that one should never get tired of seving a fine play acted, but I can't hornswoggle myself into such a mood. I am, truth to tell, id tired of seeing “Rosmersioim” and there is no use trying to make an impression on you by faking. Tn the second place, I have written everything about the Ibsen opus that T can think of to write. After a fellow has expressed his opinions on a certain play over a period of two decades there isn’t much left for him to say. And [haven't anything more to say of “Roswerstou.” Sure enough, I might deliver myself of a lot of profound walla-walla anent the direction, the lighting, the nuance and timbre of the performances and the like, but it would only bore you to death and, what is more, I myself would beat you to the cemetery. Assuming, however, that I wrong in thus shirking my crit job and that, at the worst, the le I might do would be to repeat in slightly different words what I have written of the play in past years, all ust that I can do to convince you that I may not be so wrong after all is to refer you to several critiques of the Stagers’ presentation which have appeared in certain of the daily and weekly journals. These critiques save me the trouble of doing the thing myself. If three of them aren't my own criticisms of “Rosmers- HoLM,”” written in 1908, couched in but slightly different phraseology, then 1 am a libeler most foul. Where I, in turn, originally cabbaged some of my own critical views of the yy TM not be sO great pa bit fed up With My shecessive annonnee ments that this or that worst of the season. day is the y LT seem to have spiel as a candidate ior, My private statist Rev. Dr. Lucius Bellamy. | sonal chaplain and bootle Abd-el-Krim in Moroceo, points out it week, than thirty plays as “the worst of the ) First it was “Easy Sree” ‘Then it was “Dr. Davin's Dav.” ‘Then it was "Tie Haustep House.” Then it was “Scnemens,” a really hot contender. Then, in turn, it was re Exe Ornen,.” “Juvy Drovs ts.” “Ciubs Ane SHIPWRECKED,” “Tue Desert Frower.” “Pana sires.” “Artistic ‘TearenaMent.” “Tie Sap.’ Mincrit’'s Procress.” to me that, up te the pres I have promulgated no hie Hasiruar Heseann,” “Lapies or THE Eventne.” “Jack IN THE Puverr,” “Lass o'Laventen,” “Tie Vattey or Contest,” Tie Pixer.” Saare Timers.” “THe Usper- "A Goop Bap Woway,” “Houses or Sano,” “Two sy Two.” SUGGESTION TO HOSTESSES Provide a sluinber-room for tired husbands whose wires insist on staying another couple of hours. comicbooks.com