Judge — April 21, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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san advertisement for Lucky A Strike arettes, Eva Le Gallienne’s production of “Hedda ( Virtues. But not so much can be said for it as an advertisement of Ibsen, Miss Le Gallienne and the Civie Repertory Theater, At in- tervals of every few minutes dur ing the performance—such being her interpretation of Hedda Miss Le Gallienne poses herself close to the footlights, lights a fresh Luc takes a deep, lor shoreman puff and loudly smacks her approbation, As a result, the cigar store at the corner informs me that sales of the brand have jumped considerably, albeit the customers are heard to mutter something about having — been nicked to the tune of a dollar sixty-five for some eminently five- and-ten Ibsen. Having written a number of very sour notices of the doings of Miss Le Gallienne and her troupe of acrobats and in the faint hope that her exhibit of Hedda might afford me an opportunity to s something nice about her for a change—thus relieving the mo- notor previous disastrous attempts at acting—I blew myself to a taxi for still another look her. What I saw, I grieve to report, was a performance not only as bad as any she had hitherto given, but one very, very much worse. It appears that Miss Le Gallienne has not mastered even the funda- mentals of her craft; she doesn't know how to sit down or how to get up; she can’t even walk across a stage properly; she has utterly no command of vocal inflexions. All that she does is to recite a part; of acting, in any real sense of the word, there is trac abler” perhaps has its imposed upon me by her * a Her Hedda is not merely pit is downright + prices is so worthy vetress didn't put it into execution. effort is nothing but that my colleagues, at the outset permitted themselves awakened to the things and, with her projection of work for exactly what it is, it is is unmistakably most slipshod performance of an Ibsen play that New York has seen in many years. innanby Mack's °T a fairish melodrama r old movie northern mining diverting moments, confrontation belongs to the went in for Pulitzer prizes and Reid were favorites of a pub- that presently venerates the Adolph Zukor and Louis Trial of Mary Dugan” >a playwright, to scratch a little after seeing this (Continued on page comicbooks.com