Judge — September 18, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE la « by Geonpe Jeam Nathan ° | | | | | “Loose Ankles” (Biltmore)—Some funny | wise-cracking imbedded in a very seedy play | | “The Home Towners” (Hudson)—See oppo. | “Henry—Behare™ | | ruined by the author's deter | it sure-fire box: stuff. | | | “Vanities” (Carroll) —Reviewed in this issue. | | | | ) ‘he Ghost Train” (Eltinge) at, the | J | he gorilla and the bat taxe a railroad | I | “My Country” (National) —An “Abie’s Irish | . | I Rose" brew aimed at the boobs with a cannon the latter. All the devastating elo- | oe ; “The Shanghai Gesture’ (Chanin's)—Sex in | quence of the dramatic critics who HE news of the success of yellow grease paint and a mandarin jacket. gallop to the Four Marx Brothers on Abie’s Irish Rose” having Potash and Pernuter, Deectices” (Rite) | e¥eTY possible occasion and who { . penetrated to Great Neck, To be reviewed next week. haven't yet got around to “Poly- } George M. Cohan has sat himself “Service for Two" (Gaiety)—Ditto. eucte,”” but who have none the less down and gone after some of the “The Little Spitfire" (Cort)—About as bud definitely proved to Mr. Cohan that money by writing a paraphrase of it. as they make ‘em. he is a lowbrow and all wrong, some- \ He has taken the bi sic formula af sunshine” (Lyric) —Worse. how hasn't made that stubborn gent | Anne N ichols’ box-office dynamite “Fannie” (Lyceum)—Belasco, Willard Mack | change his attitude. And he goes on and simply converted its religious | and Fanny Brice. To be discussed anon. rebellio y writing plays predicated and racial conflict into a geographical at hat Every Woman Knows" (Biiow) ; upon it and amusing the dramatic one: instead of the Jey and. the wet critics against their will. In “The atholic, he gives us New York e Towners,” agai Gtk 6 oe ; ‘i Oo or ke “The Great God Brown” (Klave)—The best Home Towners,” he again drolly and South Bend, Ind. Out of the American dramatist’s best pli vouchsafes them the opportunity of opposing points of view of two such Laff That Of" (Wallack's)—A mystery proving to their own satisfaction that places of habitation, he extracts his | pe e mystery being how it has lasted this they know more about dramatic comedy drama as La Nichols has ex- See" (Daly's) Te technique than he does and then tracted hers out of the opposing See Daly -s)=-Tape quietly shows them that their great | points of view of her Levys and ‘One Man's Woman" (48th St.)—Same here. knowledge is useless by making them | Murphy is . “Honest Liars” (Harris)—And here. laugh in spite of themselves. The As in all of the estimable George “Scandals” (Apollo)—A big, lively and di next morning, of course, after they M.’s plays, the word is here again verting revue, despite the Howard Brothers. have recovered from the good time more important than the deed. So | CThe Great Temptations" (Winter Gurden they had the night before, they sit = ae play ae oe isn’t much “One of the: Winter Garden's bests down and duly confect reviews la- o talk about. But when it comes to “Ziegfeld Revue (Globe) — Beautifully enti >: fac s e | jincncthe ctaation ta daft staged, but lacking in Ziegfeld's usual inven menting the fact that Mr. Cohan | ines, the situation is different. Pro- tiveness. writes such crude plays, but to be- | | fessor Cohan has looked tidily after “Iolanthe” (Plymouth)—Gilbert and Sulli lieve that they themselves are fooled the laughs and shrewdly never per- van admirably put on by Winthrop Ames. by these reviews is never to have met | ie a mere play ° get in the way of “Americana” Belmont)—J. P. McEvoy’s them in the speak-easy around the them. he result is an amusing FEVR WO LOS DB UVS Aone corner. | evening for everybody but J. Ranken “At Mrs. Beam's" (Guild)—Moderately “Wade, as chy | Towse Clayton Hamilton and other gumising comedy laid in an English boardins- . Hever’ McWade, as the grouchy , Clayton He house and well acted. yokel from South Bend, carries off such dramatic critics who absolutely “Cradle Snatchers” (Music Box)—Still the the honors of the acting troupe. decline to laugh unless they first funniest comedy in town. | look up convincing reasons in Aris- “The House of Ussher” (Mayfair)—If you | II | totle. go to.see this one, get a load on frst, You'll | . need it. | George Cohen is one of those odd Ye Irish Rose” _ (Republic)—Henry HE fifth edition of Earl Carroll's fellows who still imagines that most ‘ord’s and Hilaire Belloc’s favorite play. “Vanities” is the most beautifully Ht People go to the theater leas\to be “The Girl Friend’ (Vanderbilt) —Dismnal staged music show in town. The instructed in the validity of the music show. | good notice, however, stops at this critical doctrines of Wilhelm August “Rittya Kisses” (Playhouse)—Almost _as point. Like many another revue, it 5 bad, but relieved by Dorothy Dilley’s and Nick ] ; F | the critical ines ve | z ienc ic, lyrics : ve loctrines of Weber and “Sunny” (New Amsterdam)—The king-pin | deaf audienc Its music, lyrics ields. He honestly believes that if among the music shows. and comedy fall upon the human ear you asked the average man which he *Garsick Gaieties” (Garrick)—Not_ much, like a ton of bricks. would rather see—the “Polyeucte’ ” a couple: of =e ine leabires: So far as the pictorial side of the of Corneille or the Four Marx seen Versions King” |(Cesino}--Good shows goes, even Doctor Ziegfeld has Brothers—the hansdoodle would pick (Continued on page 26) — comicbooks.com