Judge — March 17, 1928 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Shows (Continued from page 20) | thie: one key grows just alittle tiresome, But the real weakness of the play and what spoils its pattern is the injection into it of a dis. tinetly Rialto “Man From Home” flavor in the person of the noble American who williamho himself in and out of the traffic and opposes his high American principles to the low ideals, affee- tations and artificialities of the rest of the east. All that this charac can fh brown se needs is a small Ameri- in his buttonhole and s to complete the pic- ture. Surely Maugham must have laughed up his sleeve when he made this compromise with the American box-office, upon which he has so largely relied to get him those real estate invest- ments in England. Ina Claire is starred and ac- quits herself admirably, ‘The girl is an expert comedienne. Con- stance Collier burlesques the réle of the faded old duchesse out of all sound countenance, but — is amusing. Frederick ‘Truesdell is unhappy in the part played so immensely well by John Flood in the original New York produc- Martin Walker is excellent Lord Bleane and Hugh the fashionable ma Imost as good as Squire was when the piece was done at the Hudson Theater. IIT, “R opr,” a dramatization of T. S. Stribling's “Tee ftallow” by Stribling and David Wallace, is a erude but occasionally: kick- ful melodrama of the lynching belt. It has been ably staged by Frank Merlin, but some of the rcting leaves much to be desired. The second act curtain, showing the lynch repe dashed suddenly against the night, with the shad ows of the mob huddled black beneath it, is extremely effective theatrical stuff. Bank Clerk— ina theater you can send me a few tickets for the theater. Theater Clerk—Certainly; and in return you can send me a few notes from your bank. —Pere Mece, Paris Now you work EMBARRASSING MOMENTS When you walk off with the wrong suitcase in the railroad station... be nonchalant ... light a MURAD Cigarette. OP. Loriltard Co., Est. 1760 THE PUN SHOP ‘ THE MW. C. next week's 3 Beaver Street JUDGE (x puns. Jupor Write for literature. h one : illus- epted and w trate and print sev > OK CO. ‘Ansonia, Conn, Gem Ciigipers ™ ‘ F ‘ ‘ Tours. Send in your wildest, craziest The Leading Wap tourist cabin d entertainment NEW YORE, / The ori mailed to the successful eon- al drawings will be = tributors. Cortez "OF BRAINS GARS. I-MADE, AT KEY WEST— | FOR g MEN comicbooks.com