Judge — August 8, 1925 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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and his even more unspeakable malevolences, but actually reviews of a music show. To read these pieces on Carroll’s entertainment was to believe that Carroll had committed every crime on the index. They not only roasted the poor fellow; they fried, broiled, fricasseed and stewed him. lis rie SS ein show, it appeared, was terrible stuff, NS ERNEES ye LT =e Ste Having read such reviews on certain = SP gman?” occasions in the past, it was there. * Yoo can Ger Liquor RE FAA cae -FoR./” / ; ae mere: * SAT Do For aN a . OF < vanities 5 fore but natural that I should ap- > ANG OVER BORD! NINES! — NORIGN proach the theater where the “Vani- was pla N THE night Earl Carroll opened his “Vanities,” I was some six with more or less hundred miles off the American coast, reassured by the sight of a certainty thatthe British flag fying at the masthead that I might safely drink a Tom Collins without ruming the risk of serving y s in Sing Sing, be fined $100,000 and having my estates confiscated by the Federal police. Since it is the custom to begin all theatrical reviews in the periodical press during the warm spell with some sort of reference to alcoholic beverages, I have therefore done my duty and may proceed to business. Upon my return to God's country—I bade my slaves fetch me the newspaper reports of the show. “What ho!” I exclaimed, after perusing what the slaves had handed to me, “These are not play re’ * SHES so DUMB, | The CENTS WONT | GWE HER EMER , BECAUSE He Cau TELL WHEN, SHE'S / ‘UNCONSCIOUSY * | you have fetched me by error so many denuncia- tions of foul murders and crimes heinous beyond belief!” But no —my minions informed me— these were no diatribes aga some unspeakable human monster WS; show would be a pretty good one. And, having seen the exhibit, I may report that it is just that— and more. In the way of originality, taking it as a whole, it goes ahead of any other affair in New York at the moment. And in the way of beauty, only the “Follies” compares with it. ° We viel is: Gude — —f2s DUB Dypa — AADERCUL , * of-art avs Regt . You may, under the circumstances, accordingly be for- BT 1 FokeotT =/ wt 43 Saou given for speculating why our newspaper friends hopped eee ‘ DRINK oUT oF Yarroll and performed a dance of death upon his um- GUISES” . We Foe l” s. The show, I understand, didn’t go so well on the opening night. It opened cold, as the phrase is, and it ran so long that by the time the audience got out of the theater audiences were already going into the other theaters for the next night’s show. But I doubt that this was the real reason for the tone of the criticisms. What inspired that. tone, un- less I am a dud as a guesser, was Carroll's going the French music halls one better and bringing his girls into more direct contact with the customers than they have ever been brought before in the American playhouse. I have a feeling that this was not to the moral taste of certain of my | critical brothers and that, while they didn’t say so in so many words, their rebellion presented itself behind the mask of distaste for other elements in the exhibition. (Continued on page 28) bs betiste i comicbooks.com