Judge — May 18, 1929 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE /G He SHOW S| utr Comr-Oxn May,” “Marry the Man” and Of the performers who disclosed themselves 1 “Messin’ Around” opencd on the same night fore 1 departed, only a wench named Hilda Perleno and I have the honor to report that not only — had any mmmend her. ‘The rest were ¢ did I review them all on the one evening but was — sorry lot. And what L permitted myself to sce of the home in bed before my eminent colleagues had — entertainment was equally sorry, consisting as it did achieved the apparently hereulean feat of reviewing — of such ancient stencils as a group of clog a single one of them, And if you think this is a dressed as newsboys, the number in which a form of boasting, you don’t know anything about the Lothario, after declaring his passion in song, finds that a sceond colored gent is hiding in his inamo- * Around,” a negro song and nce show, — rata’s idoir, and the debilitated old man who sud- brought me into the Hudson Theatre at eight-thirty — denly achieves a spryness when a saucy minx wrig sharp. I may be late for a drama by the Mlle. — gles her bustle. Aurania Rouverol or a musical comedy in’ which “Marry the Man.” by Jean Archibald, now drew Odette Myrtil is featured, but when it's a case of a » faithful to the duty of my high office, into the darkey hooting festival, promptness is the word to Fulton Theatre. As I took my chair, a young man describe the tendency of Mr. Nathan, So,as I say, and a you! an who were living together with- eight-thirty sharp found me in high anticipation and — out benefit of clergy were having a heart-to-heart my seat. But, alas, for the faith and hope of youth! — talk. While the exact words spoken by the young When the curtain had been up for no more than man do not linger in my memory, the tenor of his fifteen minutes it became clear that, though the folks — discourse was something like this: “It's all wrong, on the stage were undoubtedly coons, what was going — Mollic, this manner of life that we have been living. on on the stage was hardly a coon show, That is, not The trouble with it is that I can’t present you to a coon show within a thousand miles of anything like people as my wife. I know a gitl who will marry “Blackbirds,” hufe Along” or “Liza” but rather me and [am going to marry her. You are a sweet simply an extremely bad cuckooing of an extremely — girl, Mollic, but you are not my wife, so I am going bad white show. What was more, it appeared that away from her the producer had forgotten the little things called I followed suit. rehearsals and had also overlooked the hiring of a “The Come-On Man.” by Herbert Asht competent stage inanager. The mere slight noise now beckoned me to the Forty-ninth Street Theatre incidental to te-comer'’s search for his seat was The scene, as I deposited myself in my fauteuil, enough to bring on encores and by nine o'clock the — represented a swell-elegant Park Avenue apartment first half hour of the show had already run an hour. (Continued on page Theatre Digest “The Came-On Man” (nh Str “Met the Prince” (1 Gooey “Fallew Thru” (48th Street) — A tun “wheepee”” (New Ameterdare)—Dr ‘t f honey aml gurl show that will pice you 9 ¢ tre Tee desley and Taree irs fe “Sorin is Mere (Ai m rothers™(4Sth Street} —Pritran eh any” (ymonth with the M. Lyt , Rees eae “The Camel Trreueh the Needie’s . 4 fg “Harlem (Times Ssuare)—A\ prep at kid He Uakes Up 3. ik Tlastem and an intere , (Van “Man's Eatate” (Biltmore) —Meee se “The Love Duel” made farce-comnty the kibesh or 7 a Barrymore exe ° “The New Moon” (Imperial) —C (Broadhurst) — poece from the Hu cet ees Broadhurst) “Mims” (Belasco)—Nothing to thin em Lively jasa and lively hoofing one bat the scenery SU Us Be Oay (Laila ; “The Little Show (Music Box)— (Moreaco)—. ta" (Carroll) —Beantiful tolook —_a7Bs out ® Pleasant litle | See next week's bwur. a bamor. It w at but sot aruch to listen tc “The Grand Street Follies” (Booth) — Dreadful drivel. 2 . Same bere. “Journey's End” ( Mi ler}—An Engti vb Filiott)—More “artery Square” (Longarre)— Pretty “Congratulations” (National) — And play with ts but wit 4 Rabb bere 1 diab Phsewe Bound” (Majestic)—Phil nor and Rosita Moreno for “Freiburg Passion Play” (Hippodrome) Ated also here. “Street Scene” (Playhoure)—One of the things in town worth a vi: comicbooks.com