Judge — November 19, 1927 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE I. y old prejudice against M Biblical plays is not di- minished after a view of Philip Barry’s “John,” put on by Prof. Dr. McClintic at the Klaw. As a boresome theatrical session, the exhibit has not had a match in some time. The first act alone, running to something like an hour and a quarter, is enough to. make feel like rushing home and writing a book about the Tiller girls. It has that a playwright exercises immense bumptiousness and glory when he sets Biblical personages and episodes, as the Bible itself has looked after that job rather handsomely. Mr. Barry, true enough, has put things into his play that are not in the Bible, but I doubt that even his fond mama and papa will persuade themselves that their boy has im- proved it very greatly. The ex- cessive dullness of the Barry manuscript is heightened, in the theatrical presentation, by some dreadful acting, the leader in which is Ben-Ami, who still impertinently essays to play on the English-speaking stage without first learning how to speak English, one always seemed to me himself dramatizing Jacob Il. \ numBER of my colleagues +4 their reviews of the piece called “Ink,” by a gent named McNally, have let out derisory hoots over the newspaper-office scandals that the play sets forth, observing that they must be purely figments of a diseased imagination. If the boys are really serious in the matter of these hoots and are not merely trying, with commendahl+ poli- Gy he & Of GEORGE ALAN NATHAN — - The Arabian” (Elkin My Adrice * “(Biltmore) Excape" (Booth)—A disappointing Galsworthy hurst)—Still at the head of ath St.) rom the Italian Sex life aft Midsummer Night's Dream’ (Century) To be reviewed Little Eva in ‘The Max Reinhard ction “The Nineteenth Hole” r golf Babbitts Eliott (Cohan)—A golf comedy Helen Hayes mak Dupan" (National interesting gunman “The. Spider tricked in Women riller of the * (Republic)—Zero, MCeyn) To be reviewed | }—A speedy and highly n}—One of the best (Erlanger) M. kidding, 44th St.)—The clown- ‘Sidewalks of (Knickerb Poorer. “Manhattan Mary” (A\ form. “The Marquis ansfield) with Billie Burke. “Golden Daw to be commented on Is pocker)— jollo)—Ed Wynn in fine By Noel Coward, | - | tesse, to defend their craft, all I can say is that they are of things that even the the Staats-Zeitung up on. “Ink” is all that they say it is a gimerack of the first carat— but that it does present certain recognizable riettes, both fessional, unaware youngest subscriber to is thoroughly otherwise journalistic _histo- personal and pro- must be obvious to everyone, The who Watterson author, a newspaperman 1 Dana think I sign uses the pseudonym Greeley (I shall in’ the self Moli¢re Shakespeare will be recalled confector of dist Good Bad Womar which was responsible for waking the District Attorney to the news that the public is dirty-minded. His latest effort is written all the skill grace of earlier one. future my- Aristo- as the called “A phanes), up with and his III. Tie day that a magazine editor doesn’t receive a story laid in and” provir inside it is insane asylum g twice outside it many y everyone us sensible as everyone a rare In the that I been reading fiction manuscripts professionally, I have pulled out of the daily piles literally hundreds of such fables. One of them I particularly re- call; it was the work of Freeman Tilden and we published it in our periodical some eight or ten years ago. I recall it thesis that the dows of one. -ars have because of its bars on the bug-boudoirs were not to keep the getting out but ers from getting in. win- put inmates the The idea encountered again in t! “Behold This Dreamer.” (Continued on page 28) there from out- is now play, comicbooks.com