Judge — May 1, 1926 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Shows (Continued from page 15) and highly emotional habitues of a last Side lodging-house. 1 make out, the chi Do fect s is to make the entire cast act as if they were playing “What Price Glory.” The authors push their cursing and profanity to cheap far as Tc: the announcement 1 such a point that the whole enter- prise needs only the scene in which | Grogan puts his feet in Krausme soup to convert it into very snappy There is P's burlesque. material in the exhibit for an interesting play, but the Mitchell-Bloch combination have yelled and sworn it to pieces. Guthrie McClintic appears as the sponsor and director of the offering. This Professor MeClintic is a stage producer not to be sniffed at, but on the present occasion his foot has slipped and he has landed with a reverberating hump upon his Little August. In order to heighten the dramatic tension, he has allowed the actors to play certain portions of the manuscript as if it were a champion- ship football game. T haven't heard such a racket in a theater since Lin- coln was shot. The actors made so much noise on the opening night, in- deed, that crowds gathered outside the building in the belief that there was It is possible that by this time Professor McClintic has per- about their tly, but at the first’ performance the shouting was so incessant that only the authors could nid on. suaded his charges to gc business a bit more qu ke out what the lines were. The best performance of the eve- ning is that of Miss June Walker in the rdle of the serubgirl who tries to peer into the future life with eyes that baffle her. Here is a careful eloquent piece of acting, not less meritorious than her performance of that other slavey réle in Molnar’s ex- cellent “Glass Slipper.” and ss \ safe has been invented which is claimed to be impossible to open. We hear that it embodies the chief features of a taxicab window and a sardine tin, jondon Opinion An “upside-down” banquet was held recently in London. ‘The first course, we presume, was an indiges- tablet. tion Humorist Pry “Do you think hair restorers are “They have done me a lot of good!" “Did they give you new hair? A new villa. I. invented —Fliegende Blactter (Munich) \IANTANTANTAND NTA INP ASTASTASTART ARIAS AST ART AND ANT AND AND AX TAS DRD DRIES I SPDT ACTION Brought to your feet with these POWERFUL imported gINOCULA 8-POWER OLLOW autos roaring ‘round the tra: nthe turf! Follow fight ments of deer, beat distance! Make your tion, bird and nature study, etc, Hundreds Supplied to Army and Navy Officers LIMITED i ion recelved! French and German Army Officers’ 8-Power Prism Binoculars, famous PREMIERE QUALITE, brand new, perfect. Brillian! Send NO MONEY, Pay NOTHING to Postman, We sending BINOCU! n RIAL ae Veh ed with BINOCL you m: nd NO_ money! Pay NOTIN man. S Test, Vse ars 10 Trial Absolutely Free! aeeenaee: womenencase: SEAVER-WILLIAMS CO. p i al Mail Order House No Money B00" innate : Mail Coupon nd. senting $24 Only at. Otherwise, I shall return them. “BE limites # Quantity § ORDER NOW? ADDRESS n NOW! If something about your- ip of paper, JUDGE JUDGE Nominates for the Hall of Fame Benjamin Franklin Because, as founder of the well-known Sat. Eve. Post, he has kept the nickel from going the way of the Auk and Moa; because of his altruistic self-restraint, for consider- ing his electrical experiments, the very fact that he didn’t invent the radio proves that he must have foreseen it; and because his kite was never purchased by admiring followers and donated to the nation as a landmark in our tradition and a rallying place for all future Friends of Letters; but, most of all, because, in founding the Sat. Eve. Post, he made it possible for JUDGE to present a super-special SATURDAY EVENING POST NUMBER NEXT WEEK .. AT ALL NEWSSTANDS comicbooks.com