Judge — July 11, 1925 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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LAUG a 70 fe) Here lies poor Little Willie Flynn, He found his Papa's pint of gin! seme 7s eda, won ys $5 for each one pesmi, finally hurled himself onto a revolv- ing saw; and the play in which a stageful of Broadway actors sought to depict South Sea Islanders by the simple expedient of taking off half their clothes and periodically ex- claiming “Wha-hoo.” Yes, it was a very elegant season. That is, so far as the dramatic side of it went. On the music show side, the record was much better. A number of musical pieces were put on view that were as far above the average musical piece as “What Price Glory?” is above the usual war play. The Shuberts led in this direc- tion. It has, indeed, become Zieg- feld for beauty and the Shuberts for music, There was a time when the Messrs. Shubert's musical exhibitions were hardly such as to make Walter Damrosch rush around and kiss the | brothers on both cheeks, but that time is past. For, even if the estim- able M. Damrosch remains stingy | with his smacks, the fact remains that the Shuberts have done more to introduce respectable music into latter-day Broadway musical comedy than any other producers. The acting of the season was, like the drama, nothing to write pieces back. about. Aside from a dozen or so fairly competent performances and perhaps two of real distinction, the bulk of the cabotinage was little better than third-rate. (I speak specifically of American acting.) The native mime still seems to be the vain and lazy fellow he has always been. With a few excep- tions, he appears to do absolutely nothing by way of improving himself in his craft. The time he should properly devote to work and study, he devotes to giving out idiotic inter- views to ship reporters on his sailing or return from abroad, to sitting around in supper clubs and to patad- ing the streets dressed up like a Kuppenheimer old-home week. It is thus a rare occasion in the theater that we sce an American actor not cheating a producer out of his weekly pay envelope The women are bet- ter; they take their jobs seriously; they work hard; their performances, if not always good, are at least sin- cerely entered into. But the male actors, the majority of them, are a pretty sad lot. They know little more about what they call their art than a donkey knows about Juan Alvarez y Mendizabal. Awaiting Orders The station master on the East Indian Railway had been given strict orders not to do anything out of the ordinary without authority from the superintendent. This accounts for him sending the following telegram: “Superintendent's Office, Calcutta —Tiger on platform eating con- ductor, Please wire instructions.” ° —Jewellers’ Circular The Assistant—Now here’s a delightfully gay cretonne . . . what do you say to that? 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