Judge — October 16, 1926 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE DGING ‘he SHOWS'= o by Geonpe Jean Nathan ° ‘ous resources of UDGE seem to be inexhaus' ible. A few weeks ago, I composed a review of “Fhe Donovan Affair, noted that the advertisements of that play took the prize for bad grammar. Doubtless believing that my article in which I season's lacked enough humor for its pur- poses, JupGE ordered its copyreader to mess up what I wrote so as to make my review twice as ungram- advertisements re- I understand that the new hat presently to be JupGe’s editor is a gift Donovan Affair’s matical as the ferred to. erved from press-agent. I Ti big line in “Yellow.” the new melodrama produced by George M. Cohan, goes something like this: When men make a misstep, they can get back on their feet; but when a woman makes one, she from. it. 1 never recover Ninety-nine per cent. of women who have sinned end inthe gutter.” This remarkable piece of news has come as a terrible shock not only to the layman. but also to the Street Cleaning Department. The line sufficient idea of the general nature of the entertainment. gives you a Ul HE failure of “Scotch Mist,” an English importation, is perhaps to be explained by its relatively calm and cool approach to a theme that is generally handled in the theater in terms of sweetness and light. Patrick Hastings has takenan old-time Pinero problem play and shot sense into it, a procedure apparently distasteful to the rank and file of theatergoers. the pistol shot iaw) Seduction :wit Sandalwood —A good them: dled in the “Broadway” ( Bro drama admirably “Kept” (Comedy) —Terrible. 3 Shubert )—Kalm: tiul score “Just Life” (Miller)—Avwful. s)—Mystery Gubdub. Fulton)—Ditto. The mopolitan)—Me- Jor) —Mediocre m (Booth)—Rubbish perial)—To be reviewed later. “If I Was Jr., in a cheap s Mansfield)—Joe La {B16 of wise-cracks. “Loose Ankles” (Biltmore)—Poor play with spots of good low bu “The Home ‘Hudson)—Diverting dialogue and ss. ‘One Man's Woman” (48th St.)—Trash. “Castles in the Air” (Selwyn) —Not much. “The Woman Di. view this one prese “The Eternal Thief” (Hampden)—And this one (Forrest)—T'll re “The House of Ussher” (Mayfair)—Pretty a “Jolanthe” (Plymouth)—Excellent and Sullivan exhibit Gilbert “Laff That Of" (Wallack’s)—A dull one, “Cradle Snatchers” funny one. “The Little Spitfire “Henry—~Behave Music Box)—A_ very (Cort)—Flapdoodle Bayes)—Mild. S Sir Patrick's piece has consider- able wit and, here and there, a share of character accuracy. It has also, as hinted, a generally rational point of view. On the other side of the ledger, it has a modicum of sten- ciled buncombe in such superla- tives as “he is the most blackguard in London,” “she is the most envied woman in London,” and the like; and it has, too, one of those chase-around-the-table, lamp- smashing seduction scenes that one thought had passed out of the drama for all time with the demise of Paul Potter. Nor must we overlook the time-honored allusion to the female who is “no better than a woman of the stree Notwithstanding and nevertheless. I found the evening not without interest. notorious Some of the dia- logue is very well handled, and Sir Patrick has a nice flair for sardonic David Tearle’s _ per- formance of the butterfly rake was highly amusing, and Fred. L. Tiden gave a good turn to the réle of the husband. The two leading charac: ters—those of the teaser-wife and the Scotch lover—were, played in a way to let the exhibit down with a thud. Rosalinde Ful- ler read two of her emotional scenes ably, but her physical movements throughout the evening were con- siderably less those of a dramatic expression. however, actress than those of a member of Isadora. Duncan's outdoor class. Philip Merivale’s Scotchman needed only a bunch of stogies and a feather headdress to be a fine cigar store Indian. IV HE Rev. Dr. Belasco’s latest con- tribution to the art of the drama is “Fanny,” written by himself in (Continued on page 31) comicbooks.com