Judge — September 26, 1925 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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i 2> VErECKIE: . ZSMARRIED [GENES 5 |on Lo { AF ALL AND A BUMP honestly as any other dramatic Oe theme. The Frenchman, when 1M Gold by George Jean Nathan he tackles the subject, goes about \ the business directly and agree- I ably. The American, when he tackles it, makes so many labori- ; “« i has forums Fs es lege Ri ous detours that he gets his feet bis n: SOND covered with ten times as much Emerson and Anita Loos, weren’t 7 y ti born in France. The theme of the pike if he had’ stuck to, the piece is as Frenchy as Regine Flory’s . underwear, yet to it the playwrights have brought a trea ment that suggests much less the Boulevard des Italiens than the corner of Spruce and Poplar streets. They have taken a plot that might have provided a humorously risqué theatrical evening and have con- verted it into a play that tries so hard to be shocking that it succeeds only in making one look periodically at one’s watch, While surely no one can accuse me of being an overly moral old gentleman, I must confess that I am beginning to be fed up with exhibits like this one which play with the theme of adultery in the spirit of an Altoona, Pa., cat with a ball of grandma’s wool. I am fed up with smirks and sniggers, with the teaser technic, with dramatic contor- tions suggestive of old maids reading the Decameron. If we must have adultery in dramatic form, let us have it bathed in either sharp wit or broad, low humor, or—if need be—treated at least as forthrightly and as Mr. Emerson, co-author play, is the Gompers Actors’ Equity Associatior one who is personally on th of terms with him and \ happy to give him a libers out of his pocket flask o and all occasions, I bring to speculate just what he honestly think of actors no he has seen what they car a play when they try. “T of Eve,” as I have hinte disappointment—it was stuff before it was tinkere following the Stamford tr but the actors engaged president of the Equity / tion to merchant it have 1 seem worse than it is. seen some slipskod perfor during thes years I ha or the sto fat I have seen more | than three “SW! HOF SO TOU THAT PARA FOOL “Hanke He WS!" particular “WT ISAT A Yoese /” comicbooks.com