Judge — August 28, 1926 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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od Judging the Shows (Continued from page 16) saying that it was to be compared, as a work of art, only with the top- notch work of Euripides. This goes to show many things, one of which is that the Ringling Brothers have over looked a bet in missing the Mlle. O'Brien's press agent. “Distinguished Villa” is another of those boarding-house plays. ‘The recipe is familiar to you. In Act I, the boarders are trotted out one after another to comment on the humdrum of their lives and to long wistfully for a sight of the flowers growing in the fields. In Act I, the ingénue, stifled by the narrowness of the hoarding-house, permits herself to be seduced by a natty and_ plausible fellow from the world. Act HIT, the audience spends figuring out how much fun it could have had with its twelve shillings if it hadn’t come. outside The acting in this piece ran that in “The Ghost Train” a hard race for first place. lll STILL another exhibit due for early importation is “The Ringer,” by Edgar Wallace. American audiences are due to find a great novelty in this ore, as itis a crook play. One would think that all possible changes had already been rung on the crook theme. After seeing the M. Wallace’s brain child, the thought continues undisturbed. The vener- able hocus-pocus here once again is made to parade the platform. ‘The audience is asked to get. feverishly excited figuring out who did the dirty work, when it is perfectly cer- “Love "Em and Leave *Em” Ample argument THE OLD CHINESE proverb says, “One picture | is worth ten thousand words.” the same reasoning...and it is sound reason- ing, too...the best argument for Fatima is Fatima. taste is worth a bookful of description F A “What a whale of a difference just a few cents make” Taste one... for just one By much tain from the start that the scoundrel of the occasion is the one actor in the cast that all the other actors insist is completely innocent. While the acting in “The Ringer * is considerably better than that in the other two plays I’ve mentioned, it is still nothing to make Arthur Bingham Walkley hurry up from the country about. The leading réles, while I was in London, were in the hands of Leslie Faber, whose work is well known over here, Franklin Dyall and Dorothy Dickson, the Chicago girl who used to dance at the Princess Theater and who is now a London favorite along with Amer- ican cocktails, American jazz and almost everything else American but the Hofbriiuhaus. Only $1.00 a pair for lovely chiffon hosiery fully guaran- teed. 24+ inch pure silk leg, 4 inch lisle garter hem. Ask your merchant for “Westcott Day- dream” Westcott Hosiery Mills, Dalton, Ga. comicbooks.com