Judge — January 28, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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J pUDGE Retnnarpt has his boosters something of a jolt with the produc- tion of Langer’s “Peripherie.” After we all got together follow- ing his presentations of * summer Night's Dream, ermann” and “Danton’s and started torchlight parades and banquets with real caviar in his honor, this was a dirty trick to play on us. For the sad truth of the matter is that our Max has gone Gustav Blum with his Langer exhibit and given an ac- count of himself that even the Staats-Zeitung will be put to some trouble to gloss over. Max, of course, never does any- thing really badly, so maybe the allusion to the M. Blum is rather exaggerated. But surely — this production of his is far enough below his high level to make Jed Harris, Arthur Hopkins and some of the other home-town boys. grin out of the corners of their erstwhile — disconsolate “mouths. At certain points in it our Max displays all of his usual imagina tion and sagacity, but at certain others it seems to indicate—God knows, understandably enough! —that a German, however much of a genius he may be, can't dredge up inspiration on Ameri- can near-beer and the kind of sauerkraut on tap at the Savoy- Plaza Hotel. It is apparently all right for a month or so, but time will tell, And as the weeks have rolled around, the dishwater per- fumed with hops and the cabbage drenched in Heinz vinegar hi evidently laid our Max's soul low, with the deplorable consequence mentioned. It is up to all of us who believe in his supereminent talents to come to the rescue in- stanter. Te this end, I herewith pledge myself to use my influence $Y GEORGIAN NATHAN “Marco Mulliona’* reepecta brilliantly to Marco Me (Gaild)—O'Neill pays bis die *Rosalic” (New Amsterdam) duces Marilyn Miller Ziegfeld rein! To be commented 0 next “Show Roat’* every detail. (Ziegfeld) —An excellent show in "She's My Baby" life to a dull ove. (Globe)}—Beatrice Lillie gives “The Royal Family” (Selwyn)—I heartily com- mend it to your notice. (Ellictt)—Another feather in Jed “Red Dust!’ (Daly's)—Flapslornile wopelitan) productions Reinhanit’s serien of Philip Barry, ad “The Racket’ drama. ly staged by Arthur Hopkins, (Ambawador)—Interesting melo “Interference” (Exnpire)—Ham ditto. “* Nightitick” (Coban)—Fair ditto, “The Trial of Mary Dugan” diverting ditto, in this show “The White Eagl’* in the. (Casino)—As Fritm!’s score is "Happy (Carroll)—And ae nothing ia "The Patri’ drew. To be described in detail anon. The Merchant of Venice Arlise aa the Elizabethan range Intertute’” (Cy rable play. To be lectured o “The Lowe Ned" (Comaly)—Meserstely ame ing comedy faehvoond from the Ring Lardner conte. Irish Players (Knickerbocker)—An admirable troupe. Worth your attention “Monglia’” (Greenwich)—Melodramatie drivel. * Trigger” (Klaw)— 1880 eoubrette opus, with Claiborne Faster to } ** Busteoque"* (Plymouth)—A matioere play with some funny wleeacs. “The Prisoner’ (Tr teads better than it set incetown)—A play that gv’" (Republie)—Wertb-while Theatre Guild “Who Knows’ (Wallack's)—Spiritualistie tush. “Artiste and Modela"* (Winter Garden)—A lively | and entertaining song and dance show. “Good News'* (46th Street)—Another. “Spring Song’* (Bayes)—A du. "The Ladder™ (Belmont}—A ducer. “ Excaye" (Booth)—Galeworthy’s ewan-eong turns ‘out to be a goone-cry. “The Merry Malones” (Erlanger)—George Coban in an arousing kidding prenie. “Golden Daven” (Bammerseio)= Lexie Hunter a meritorious troupe of voeali Dineen” (49th Street)—To be reviewed next , “ock Rabin'* (48tb Street)—Aleo to be reviewed ater. “A Free Sod” (Playbouse)—Same bere. A new comedy by | (National —Very “Funny Fare’ (\lvin)—The Astaires are the item (Majestic\—Hokum in Ruwian | CNG SHOW & | with the once, Not only has Reinhardt foozled certain physical phases of the production of “Peripheric’ point, for example, to the defec tive adjustment of scenery and to some very dysenteric lighting but, more, he has been guilty of laying hold of the original manu- script of the play, bowdlerizing it and tacking a cheap happy end- ing to it in place of the honest ending it had. Surely this is a shoddy thing for our estimable visitor to have done, so shoddy that I am almost tempted to re- consider that expedition to Ho- boken in his behalf. If Rein- hardt is out to pop the loca boobs, he can’t expect any South- ern hospitality from us old colonels. Hoboken authorities at IT T tough battle that has ‘n going on between Wal lack's and Daly’s theatre for the honor of housing the greatest number of bad plays seems to be veering slowly in favor of the latter. With the score a ti Daly's has jumped in the lead by one point with “Red Dust,” a nonesuch by Prof. Wilson Colli- son. Never in the history of the theater has there been so hard- fought a struggle, not even back in the days when the Sire Brothers’ Bijou at Broadway and Thirtieth Street established for itself single-handed such a record that other theater managers were discouraged from entering into competition for almost fifteen years. Even with the valiant aid of Mae West, Daly's has had a time of it trying to beat Wallack’s at its own game, for Wallack’s has displayed so high a virtuosity in (Continued on page 26) comicbooks.com