Judge — February 9, 1929 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Judging the Shows (Continued from page 18) self. My) constitution: is much too delicate for such spectacles. joes Forses, once a skilful J writer of amusing comedies, has turned out a_ feet Precious,” on view Royale. Taking the venerable theme of the old man married to ‘young girl, he heaves and tosses in an effort to brew laughs, but without success. His technic is so obvious that you see the attempts to pop chuckles coming 1 league off. I often wonder at the complete collapse. of these playwrights : f ; Augustus Thomas, George Broad- hurst, A. E. Thomas, this Forbes, to say nothing of half a dozen others. Every blessed one of them has gone down the chute. Some of them, of course, never had any talent; the critics were simply deluded by them. But Forbes had talent and yet he, too, has blown up. I dare say the reason is to be found in the in creasing authentic sophistication of the American theatre, brought about by the importation of adult | plays from Europe and by the coming into the theatre of a much more substantial grade of native dramatic writer. old play- wrights have been shown up for what they were, even the better ones among them. They were big frogs in the little puddle that our theatre then was. We now see them to have been merely tadpoles. “What do they mean by the witching hour’ “Don’t you know? That's the hour when the wife greets you with ‘Which story is it this time?" " —Tir Bits “Children nowadays are put on 1 pedestal,” declares a novelist. Well, they've got to reach their mother’s skirts somehow —Passixa Snow Wife—Do you realize, dear, that it was twenty-five years a | Twenty-five years! Bless my | soul! You should have reminded me before. It's certainly time we got married. —Syoney Butietin and what a whale of a difference just a few cents make A definite extra price for a definite extra tobacco- goodness atima. GARETTES Liccert & Myers Tonacco Co. come here quick! The ground-hog is seeing his shadow!” comicbooks.com