Judge — May 30, 1925 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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| | The slide trombone player utilizes the waste motion. THe Devin Wernty,” Leave “OstRICHES “Turitts.” Now, obviously, not all of these could be the worst play of the season, One of them had to be really the worst. But if you think that Lam going to sit down and figure out carefully which of this lot was actually the sourest, you are doomed to disappointment, for the job has been spared me by the sudden appeara called Lamb. This “Fuesu” is so bad that it makes all the arch lemons that have preceded it look like so many plums, It is not only the play of the present season; it is, unless I missed something, the worst play that has been shown in New York since Chauncey Depew began guing to banquets to brag of his age. T have laid an eye to many a magnif- icent cheese in my day, but here you have the genuine thing. It is regal in its awfulness. On the open- ing night, indeed, even the actors began to suspect that the play was not all that its author had told them it was and periodically let loose a titter that wouldn't stay where it belonged. And when terrible that even its actors realize the fact, it must, as you will agree, he pretty doggone terrible. The Mons. Lamb, confector of the manna in question, tried to get a little of the easy money that the Mons. Belasco is piling up out of “LApres OF THE EveNtNG” by taking lar lady and exhibiting her at her trade. But when it comes to e on the scene of a morsel Fiesu,” the labor of one play is so playwriting, the M may politely be called a lausbub! His play is as amateurish as a Chinese laundry’s bills, And his att inflame the with al scene wherein some very doings are promised brings forth « aloud, derise fore, hail * of the there i horselaugh. I, ther as the worst | arin perfect confidence that "ta chance that a serious contender can possibly show up. in theatrical weeks. So of the Amen.” the remaining far as this pl we may say Yow ll be sure to meet BETTY soon. | | | | | comicbooks.com