Judge — May 22, 1926 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Shows (Continued from page 18) of some sort of personal sacrifice. \| ' have anointed Munro as a realist, as \ a writer who sees and appr , ve ‘ fellow-men clearly, truthfully BECAUSE it costs us more to make Fatima mercilessly. If Munro is a realist, { Maeterlinck is Gorki. ‘The fact about Munro is that he is a profound sugar- plum. He is as thoroughly a senti- mentalist as Woodrow Wilson, J. Hartley Manners or Watterson, Ber- lin and Snyder. He looks at hi fellow-men through horn spect: containing two lenses of crystallized He makes cert: critics believe that he is a realist by the simple device of cracking a joke occasionally at the expense of his own ingrained sentimental _ philo- sophical viewpoint. These critics mistake the joke for Munro’s authen- tic attitude. The presenting troupe is hi Estelle Winwood, whose ar and affectations get in the way of any forthrightness of characterization. Good performances are given by Joan Maclean, C. Stafford Dickens and Lyonel Watts. the retail! price is likewise higher. But would | . men continue to pay more, do you think, f except lfor genuinely increased enjoyment? The fact\\cannot be denied — they do continue molasses. led by Til | ‘*Qex,” by some one who signs her- \' self Jane Mast, is the plainest kind of garbage. La Mast has | sought, without the faintest trace of | dramatic skill, to capitalize the cur- rent public demand for hot stuff. She presents us with a harlot who plies her trade in various parts of the world and who, together with the other personages of the play, tries to jounce the customers out front with dirty talk. It is to be feared, how- | ever, that the Mlle. Mast’s master- What a whale of a difference just a few cents make Liccerr 4 Myers Tosacco Co. 7 piece will not bring in the money she had her eye on, for even smut calls for a measure of playwriting talent to make it marketable. Some of these recent attempts to swindle the boobs out of their dollars with theatrical filth are pathetic. The pathos lies not with the boobs so much as with the entrepreneurs. I have a certain amount of respect for successful con men, bordello opera- tors and such, but the spectacle of a poor, misguided man or woman, with- out any kind of commercial or artistic ability, trying vainly to earn a little Here lie the remains Of a bandit stout. He moved to Chicago And died of gout. ah bes EY bt et yn, nis pays 35 for each One print lag | CLARK’S FAMOUS CRUISES By sumptuously appointed new, oll-burning Cunard- ers, specially chartered, run like ‘private yachts. Lim- Ited “membership and ‘rates including hotels, gutdes. drives, fees. Stop-overs in Europe Looks as though we're in for some nice weather. easy money out of amateurish hog- wash is enough to stir one to the bowels of pity. I haven’t the honor of La Mast’s acquaintance, but her friends should promptly advise her to give her cheap mind a good, hard scrubbing. NORWAY Western Mediterranean June 30, 88. “LANCASTRIA,” 53 days, $550 Repeating last summer's greatest cruising succe: Lisbon, Spain, Tangier, Algiers, Italy, Rivier: Norway Fjords, Edinburgh, Trossachs, Berlin. SOUTH AMERICA Combined with the Mediterranean Feb. 5, 86 days, $800 to $2,300. ROUND THE WORLD Jan. 19. 12] days, $1.250 to $2.900. To the MEDITERRANEAN Jan. 29, 62 days, $600 to $1,700. sss FRANK C. CLARK, Times Bidg., N. Y. comicbooks.com