Judge — December 18, 1926 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Shows (Continued from page 20) Theater. The play itself is for the | most part the same; the décor of the original production has been more or less successfully imitated; only a few alterations have been made in the musical numbers and accompani- ment. What is more, Ashley Dukes has gone about the job of translation adroitly. But the entertainment is still as unlike that which some of us enjoyed abroad last summer as “Held by the Enemy unlike “Madame | Butterfly.” There is humor in “Mo- zart,” but not a trace of it comes out of the present performance. There is charm, a considerable charm, and here you will find not a morsel of it. ‘There is drollery and irony, and there is about as much of these qualities in the show at the Music Box as you will discover in “Ben Hur.” Trene Bordoni, who plays the réle in the English version that Yvonne Printemps plays in the French, delightful performer in many ways. but one of them is certainly not bo; roles. She is physically and by tem- perament no more suited to such réles than are many of our juveniles. In the réle of Grimm, so charm- ingly and humorously played by Guitry, Frank Cellier, an English Shakespearian actor, moves about with all the comfort of a Walter Hampden trying to get Gertie’s gar- ter. And the rest of the troupe are equally ill at ease, reminding one most disconcertingly of so many Germans celebrating the Fourteenth of July. Toadd to the catastrophe, the local impresario has caused to be added to the play a prologue written by Brian Hooker which not only gives an in- — Judge—Do you mean to say you stood by and let your wife be brutally assaulted by the prisoner without rendering any help? Witness—Well, I didn’t think he needed any help. Humorist Passenger—Is the train running late? Porter—Yes, mum. I don’t knov ( of any new arrangements. —London Opinion oe A ae sultingly Burton Holmes explanatory lecture on who Mozart was and the nature of his trade but which kills the interest of much that follows by narrating it before the curtain goes up on Sacha’s first act. Ul “Typ tue Live,” by Henry Fisk Carlton, is designated another Harvard Prize Play. The more I see of these Harvard plays the more I am brought to the conclusion that the hope of the American drama, if any, must rest with either Catawba College or dear old Muhlenberg. te “A woman was in a restaurant eat- ing a pineapple sundae when a man entered and ordered a chocolate . How did she know he was a don’t know. How?” “Because he had a sailor suit on.” —Tit-Bits se Georges Carpentier announces that he is going to live in an American city pe ently. Chicago, we imagine, is one of those in which it would be very difficult to live per- manently. —Humorist Iron” “Tron me wife are going to a show.” —Passing Show atic Beginner—Pull into the side, confound you, and give a comicbooks.com to lik in T