Judge — October 1, 1927 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE P SUD GING m= SHOW & GEORGESTAN NATHAN “Blood Money” (Hudson)—A melodrama that begins well and dosen't keep it up. “Burlesque” (Plymouth)—A comical theatrical evening, but with real burlesque twenty miles “Tenth Avenue” (Eltinge)—Cheap melodrama. ‘ Broadiay” (Broadhurst) Excellent comedy ‘ melodrama of cabaret and bootlegging life. HAVE yet to see a dramatiza- ; * ; “The Ladder” (Cort)—Awful. tion of Dickens that didn’t : = ; “p; Ziegfeld Follies” (New Amsterdam)—Prof. prove an awful bore. “Pick- Ziegfeld in fine form. pretty much like what it is sup- | posed to look like, and Leo New- | man may be observed snooz ng in wick,” by the MM. Reilly and The Circus Princess (Wi n)—Kal- the last row—but otherwise the i Hamilton, on v: the Empire, man's melodies plus pome jocsse clowning. sense and feel of the theater are H is no exception to the rule. For The Squall” (48th St.)—Spanish hooie. missing. The reason isn’t hard to | such persons as have never got — | ju themes company aim uperthewinal | Make out, Dickens lends himself | over the childhood taste for milk one. inaptly to the purposes of drama. y and Dickens, it may contain ele- a Mio in Spain (44th 8t)—A funny: muse Even the skilful Louis N. Parker | ments of interest, but for others, ae . . found himself hamstrung when | | P : A “Merry-Go-Round” (Harris) —There's entertain- ane | I fear, it provides nothing but ment here, too. he attempted to distill theater | i doldrums. “Saturday's Children" (Booth) — stuff out of his works. And as- well An son's meritorious comedy on matrit “The Spider” (Music Box)— there's one mystery play in town th: Dickens is the favorite author of sweet men who have never }; grown up and of very old folk — | 3% suredly the Messrs. Reilly and Hamilton have succeeded in ac- complishing nothing more than to anyway will divert who were never young. Such find cas Fi Bila” (Binateld)—Betifal, but ant to the put the Dickens characters on the in him and in the plays made “Rang Tang" (Majestic) —Chocolate frolic. Fair. stage without contriving to make from his books a sort of Freudian Apion” (Nalimali--Dittor ‘Ar’ ville the Dickens episodes move. j nostalgia, though for what, I am bett a Il | unable precis y. Perhaps “Mr. Romeo" (Wallack's)—See this issue. | i} for those memories that “The Road to Rome’ (Playhouse)—Not much, |“ rn. Romeo,” by the Messrs. ce this ine. Manheimer and Gribble, is where another dud. Retailing the conte seize upon, “Pickwic Ity to Dick- “Good News mark, one generally “Padlocks of 1 ~ enlivened only by La Guinan. (Chanin): (Shubert) —A dull revue of a passé gent who would a | i li finds, of limited reading. Your ; ; Lothario be, it is written in the it | Dickens patriot is usually a per- | eqnung@7”4m" Cameo Ferbletrandine | dull, Justreless fashion of cheap i} | son whose acquaintance with lit- “ Her Pirat Affair" ( Nothing in this one magazine fiction and never man- | erature bounded by Jane “Alles Oop" (Carroll) Tedious revue. ages to lift its head above the | | Austen at one end and by “Black “Hit the Deck" (Belaseo)—Iniifferent musient | Swamps. Plays like this are the i Beauty” at the other. I do not, comedy. result of the absurd over-supply ' | plainly, mean to be ungentle to sige EON Coonr Ciller} “To be: pam on of theaters. Since there are not } | _ the engaging Charles, but there is “The Triumphant Bachelor” (Biltsnore)—Ditto. enough movie epics to fill the and a place for all things. “4 empty houses, plays, however un- i “ Revelry” (Masque)—Here too. es } nly enjoyed him, too, in likely, are rushed in to keep the the days before my tastes suffered Half a Widow” (Waldorf)—And here doors open. And we are thus en- a deplorable chang But I con- pug Ciee’” (Klaw)—T' review it in the nea tertained by a succession of ature. | fess that many years have passed fe . profitless gimeracks that other- | 5 v3 M Yellow Sands” (Fulton) —See next week's issue. i since the era of my relish. wise would never get by a third The stage “Pickwick” is dis- "A Ha Cort" (Geck}—An eatreinely stupid ssistant playreader. Who Dr. covered to follow the usual Dick- My Maryland” (Jolson) —To be lectured on in nheimer is, my bloodhounds — | ens dramati n. The costumes the next issue. have been unable to learn. But the names of the “Women Go On Forever" (Forrest) —Some inte-~ one surely expects better work of are there on the pro- | ‘tins matenal crudely assembled, the clever Dr. Gribble. The man gram; the lines have the properly ejacidiaetinmiaiiie who wrote “March Hares” cer- re familiar ring; and at least one cared Sheet Follies” (Little)—Some engagingly tainly didn’t have his heart in his i actor wears a pair of spectacles creas - ee work when he tackled this citron. i and has a pillow stuffed into the — | weaves a" % Borneo” Biiou)—See next | A III mi facade of his pants. But the “The Trial of Mary Dugan” (Ritz)—See the ; general effect, while it may sug- iene flat Mist, sD now for “Good News”—in + gest Dickens, surely does not sug- “Four Walls” (Golden)—Ditto. both senses. If you want a gest a play. The curtain goes “The Command to Love” (Longacre)—Ditto. gay theatrical evening, here is | up and down, the scenery looks —— J (Continued on page 25) i L = = = i 18 : Hi comicbooks.com