Judge — July 6, 1929 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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JUD IMUY GANG te GAOW Se Lot of our old friends, most of them now A embellished with lovely whiskers, figure in Nice Women,” recently unveiled by the Rev. Dr. Lawrence Weber in the Longacre art emporium. Among those with whom we went to theatrical kin dergarten in the Benjamin Harrison days are the poor gitl whose parents insist that she wed a rich inan whom she doesn’t love, the small boy who em- barrasses everyone by making remarks out of order. the noble hero in spats who manfully suffers the blows of fate and exercises himself assiduously to help the unfortunates who surround him, the wise end slangy flapper with the heart of gold bencath her flippant exterior, the wheezeful butler, the cigar- ette-smoking and cocktail-drinking adventuress, the paterfamilias who is made a poor drudge by his women folks, the tender-hearted servant mains on with the family when they ¢ to pay her wages, the mother intent who apartment that looks as if it had been designed and decorated by Elsie De Wolfe, Cecil B. De Mille and the Asbury Park Fouzth of July Celebration Committee working in collaboration. The play is the brain-child of the M. Will Grew, whose “My Girl Friday” made Perc mond, St. John’ Ervine and the other reviewers blush so that everybody thought they had just got back from Miami with ele sunburns. It is better t the antecedent gem but so, for that matter, is a cold $n the head as compared with pneumoni everal good performances, notably those of Sylvia Sidney, a very talented young woman, and George Barbier, mislead the audience momentarily into seeing virtues in the manuscript that are not But it takes no expert profes- GE a playwright, worldly philosopher and w hands of a more adroit littéra for ce, might have been gi blance of life, but in the h they prett. In tl ur, the materia n some sem- nds of the present chef ally roll over and play dead. My Girl Friday,” Grew manages a few ughs with shady wheezes and here and there even contrives part of a scene with mild sagacity, but in its entirety his work is just cheap Broadway. Rob- ert Warwick, returned from the Hollywood out- houses, is very movie in the réle of the lordly hero. Since there was little in the play, aside from the Mlle, Sidney's performance, to devote the depart- mental critical attention to, I sought to divert my- self in a perusal of the program and its contents. The short story for the week, I found, was called “Crime Wave.” I tried it and as far as: “So Mary Ellen smiled. The cop stared back. He had been smiled at before. ‘I wasn't going to a fire,’ said Mary Ellen. ‘I was taking Aunt Susan some jel- lies.’ "That ended that and I turned to the Horton's lee Cream ad. ‘For that ‘little bite’ to round out the evening,” it read, k for Horton's Tee Cream.” This interested me enormously, as I had never before heard that ice cream fe'l into the “little bite.” The Rogers Peet ad., reassuring one and all that “nice women are Eke good suits; they wear well and you don't tire of them," was to be applauded for its noble sentiment, though in’ the picture accompanying the ad. a man in a Rogers Pect good suit was unfortunately depicted as turn- ing his rearo upon what was undoubtedly meant to be a nice woman, The pun, “Announcemint,” at the top of the ad- (Continued on page 29) gory of a Theatre “Mice Women” (Longacre)—See this “Journey's End” (Miller)—Ao Enalish ime. man's view of the late fracas; a play ian: (Princem)—tt wit TE points of merit. never be reviewed, 1 fear, by this Br “Thy Leva Dast™ (Barrymore)—It is fomsor. out to disappear from our midst. “Street Scone” (Playhouse) —Showing iy uit Sowers jl any good play has nothing to fear rom kies. “Qrethery” (48th Street) —Movie wham with a movie actor disporting himself in “Bird in Hand” (Morcnco)—Now that the leading rile. John Drinkwater has written a very Digest ‘and Street Follies” (Booth)—A “The Little Show" (Music Box)— imitations of celebrities but a Novelty and bumor make it worth your evening. ‘Hold Everything” (Broad burst) — “Litths Accident”? (\mbassador)—See Lively leg and Larynx exhitation. it and ebuekle; it’s funny stuff gee dads Gee” (Cort) —Myetery Tha Pertast Ai" (Hopkins)—But —q_might a Venies™ (Shubert) — detective pisime is pretty well While Ted Healy and his assistant managed. clowns are on the stage, you'll be amused. amusing comedy we may next expect a 26d musieal show from John Galeworthy. “shi (Bayes)—Like trigeminal neuralgia, there doesn't seem to be any eure for tt “The Tired Business Man” (Waldorf) —The worst kind of trip: “The Camel Threzg) the Needle’s Eye" (Guild)—The Guild picked it and infected its artistic complerio “Jen28 7” (Bijos) —Weak little comedy , ab he platitudiaous Y. Gene- 3” (New Amsterdam) — meee, ht Matitadiones Younger Gee yas Cantor and hin comeal cracks, “Let Us Be Gay” (Little)—Rachel “Fellow Thru" (46th Street)—The Crothers, after confecting some very dull Schwab-Mandel firm turn out another ones, writes a diverting comedy. ‘one as good aa “Good News”. comicbooks.com