Judge — December 31, 1927 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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: nicéer™ is the latest ex- I hibit on view in the Kleines Lusthaus. I may best characterize it for you by telling you that the program announces that the poor little r: ‘arolina gaged, bare- legged mountain girl whose entire fortune consists of a quarter is dressed by the New York modiste, Van Deventer. The play is the work of Lula Vollmer, author of “Sun-Up” and “The Sin’ Woman.” It harks back to the days of Lotta and Nellie MeHenry and is about as bad as th The central figure is a bucolie ingénue who turns a lovable nature on and off at water-tap interv made naughty god come. Is. who is goo to by a smooth knave from the city and who, after the usual serio-comic trials and tribulations, presum- ably marries a fine, upstanding gent who esteems her purely. © nonsense is smeared with an icing of Chris that, in the last miraculously baby to life If it were not for the comely Claiborne Foster in the idiotic title réle, there would be nothing This are over Science restores a for the reviewers to do but to go into the shoot dice. Miss Foster is an at tractive little person and 1 looked at with a certain of aesthetic pleasure. She looks very pretty in her Van Deventer dresses and that’s something, ¢ if it isn’t dramatic criticism. down washroom and II Avotuer dull theatrical evening is contributed to local en- thusiasts by the otherwise com- mendable Don Marquis and. hi recreation of the Tristram legend under the title. “Out of the S JUDGE Manka‘tan Ma: rof. Wynn (Belasco) Mlle, Groody and To be reviewed ani A soporific evening. hing by N The Marquise’ Billie Burke is t (Carroll) ithout novelty * (Broadturst) A cabaret 1 * (Casino) —A to be revie Eterymai highly meritor Repertoire (1 “Coquette” (Ell town that I strongly re “Out of * (Erlanger) —George ne amnusing ki fc I (44th St) Coban and “The Fire O sth St.) 1 this season. * (auth St.) n the offing. As entertaining New Amsterdam)—And_ you'll hy "(Ful . Arthur era. Millions” (Guild Vampire excellent Strange Int excellent li to be reviewed anon. “Porgy’" (Republic) 1 of the novel n Hammerstein) Wd several good tunes, but a top! Harris) —Wall: wweral diverting s Hopkine)—An libretto. id Soto B dding Players (Hudson)—Sean O'Casey b e* (Alvin)—The Astaires. in trim plus Victor Moore lift up the rest of the sh Storm Center” (Klaw “Sidewalks of Nee Yo dite “* (Little) —Page Nellie MeHenry Command to Lore (Longaere) adicay” (Beck) —V lone’ (Miller) Mary Du Veiller (National wlodrama, Selwyn)—Some tense nk (Waldorf relied upon to carry the show “Show Boat’ (Lyric) exhibit, to be reviewed shortly “Artists Models'” (Winter Garden): sining d Racket Chicago gutter society ‘cess Baggag’”” (Ritz (Vanderbilt) Wil Mahoney be reviewed, da ion. One of Galsworthy’s neg The usual song-and-dance to M Nothing by Noel An adroitly staged drama- (Knickerbocker) Entertaining h)—Some laughs insertesd \ big new Ziegfeld Forsaking his kindred Marquis has gone with Abbey The and the result is ings Tam Old Soak and of humor, Dr. Maeterlinek ter overtones ardly inspirit informed that his play reads much better than. it that it us it acts very badly indeed. weapons acts. I can only hope dix And matters are helped by — the George Tyler has hired to do the manuscript nor by Walter Hamp- den, who has staged it. certainly not mummers Sir Aside from Lyn Harding, the umbents of the veal in main réles re- themselves te be a hapless lot. As the modern Iscult. Bex trix Thomson, who was so very good in “The Constant: Nymph.” concerns herself with suggestir an eerie quality by reading h they booz Tommy Lyman ballads and by lines as if were gazing out wide-eyed and long- ingly at Burns Mantle. Rollo Peters, as Tristram in) modern dress, still goes in for indicating manliness by hitting his left palm with his right — fist other Claude as master of the old house on the Cornwall coast, © stubbornly of Gus News;" and O. P. Heggie, as the sea soubrette’s determined vigor and every minute; Rains, reminds on jood Shy in papa, again Ingubriously reads his lines as if cach of them were th-eache, And Hampden has directed the whole in that dilatory manner for which he is famous. The intention behind the play is worthy enough, but Mr. a troublesome stor lecture-room quis has been unable to reslize it. III Tue are no greater bores in the theater than the old moral- ity plays, and it is to Max Rein- (Continued on page 31) comicbooks.com