Judge — May 18, 1929 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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d Judging the Shows | (Continued from page 20) peopled by even more swell- elegant ladies and gents. At least, in the demand of the seript, they were supposed to be exceptionally nt for the momeni. “Why were you not here on Sat yi?" demanded one of the bon-tons of the » who was playing the réle of a very doggy young gentleman about town. “I am sorry that I could not get here,” was the reply. “I was at- tending a week-end.” ‘Ten seconds later I was out on the sidewalk. ue other opening of the weck was on a subsequent evening ht to itself, It hy William R. house the Mr. Doyle has not | written a good play but he at least gives hints that he is in a class apart from the Mlle, Archi- bald and the M. Ashton. There are moments of interest in his ex- hibit and, if his play as a whole is merely the oft-told Camille tale laid for novelty’s sake among the cooch dancers of a vagrant | carnival show, it yet reveals touches that may some day, in an- other manuscript, go to produce something in the way of lively popular drama. Apart from the basic familiar ity of Doyle's materials and apart from the familiar manner in which he has handled them, the aywright further weakens his by a shyness and timidity in nocuvering of certain epi sodes that might have been very I allude to the scene of the f er, particularly. Doyle elaborately plants the idea that what is coming off is very hot stuff and then lifts his curtain on something that could get by at almost any debutante party. He vauses his leading woman char acter, grief-stricken over the of her beau, to ery out chal ingly that she'll go back to the old game and, stark naked, shake | that thing at the smoker until | they have to carry the boys out on stretchers. And then, when the shindig begins. he brings her on done up like Queen Victoria on Ascot Sunday and confines her | anatomical exercises to a couple | of very ladylike tosses of the | hip. Tt won't do. | rr. | ss The perfect complement to good clothes is Phoenix. Smart, up-to-the-minute style distinguishes this fine, sturdy hose. Its timely patterns are skillfully woven into its famous long-mileage texture. Phoenix provides the season's new- est designs with the greatest economy. S0c to $2.00 a pair. ' PHOENIX HOSIERY OLD BILL is coming to America. Bruce Bairnsfather, greatest of all war cartoonists and creator of Old Bill and The Better ‘Ole, is doing a new Old Bill series. His full-page drawings will appear each week in Junce. Further announcement in next week's issue. 29 comicbooks.com