Judge — May 31, 1930 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE UVGING ve GAOWS | Pre ] i! By ay “8 { } GEORGE JEAN NATHAN a % ] ih] 3s 3B, ] ait | if | iat X the midst of all the letl thing to be singled out and set up to divertissement over here do not make I tripe that has been dumped onto a drink, When the average play- trips abroad and get wind of the origi- the local weeks of tl ges during these last wright is seized with of their brothers over an itch to be nality of se n, a rose has blos- naughty there are generally just three there. I recall any number of fresh somed at the Selwyn Theatre. Rose ideas that he can think up. The first notions for saucy farces and comedies | may not be the gi right word—but let it is to get the wrong person into a bed- that might provide them with valu- The name of the bloom or what- room; the second is to bring the hero able instruction. For example, a dish er you wish to call. it is pst and heroine as close as possible toa by Robert Dieudonné which a Sheep” and Belford Forrest is the seduction; and the third is to combine — Frenchman, long used to the comforts horticulturist. If you feel like snif- the first two. The result is usually of home, fits up his inamorata’s flat fing some sassy perfume, go around — pretty heavy Forrest, exactly like his wife’s, gets drunk one H Yh and pleasure yourself. Iam talking the present hit upon night and, when he wakes up, is at a } to you not as a dramatic critic but as something relatively new. He it loss to know in which flat he is and | a confidential whisperer. As a dra- ines a bawdy house that has | how to conduct himself, For another matic critic it would be my duty— vacated over-night by its inmates and example, a farce, by Gandera and a though the Lord knows why—to point — leased the next morning by a not too collaborator, called The Dangerous out is defects in the ‘pl But scrupulous agent to a Methodist cler- Liaison,” concerned with a gent who | as rer I anand his f which includes, falls in love, as the expression goes, ] 0 s some very happy cé number of — with a twin and who h ] hobby dirt to be « and that you hing daughters. » subsequent may without too much strain niay as well forget all about criticism — visits to the house of the callers of igined, working things out satis- in this hot weather and have a good another period provide the time, comed I remember, too, a couple of farces: “Lost Sheep,” so that you needn't The incidental anties that enliven “Lulu, Watch Your Heart” and “Our be unduly alarmed and skittish about the ex-joy-palazzo, with the clergy- Girl and Ce a sprightly air it ctly the kind of play for you man’s girls mistaken for geishas, his to them, to say nothing of such things to our wife, daughter or sweet sedate wife for the presiding matron as Sacha Guitry's “Black and White” one to. fter having bored the poor and himself for a naughty old Lo- and Vife, Hush and = Lover.” . girls to death with the “Traitors, n toothsome in their But our own ps ughty boys go | i “Oh, Professors,” “Stepping Sisters, 1, whatever the play's on writing the same old thing’ with ; cessary — factorily. ‘Lady Claras” and other such st deficiencies, are surely to seldom a trace of originality to. it Sundayschool affairs in the last be recommended as an antidote to the “Lost Sheep” is the first play of its month or more, it is high time they pure guff that is being doled out on species in) some time that doesn't had some good, low fun ci summer stages. A sprout the old whiskers. The rest tell at the Selwyn will give it to them. nd to retail the same old dirty story in much the The tradition t women don't like — the Ferdinand Gottsch same old w As one who has grown dirty stuff as much as men do is senti- that sure-fire comique, is droll as aged looking at spectacles of histri- and the show the other ¢ He mental whiffe. They love it. And it ways in the role of the Rev. Wampus; onic boudoir miscegenation, 4 We is only fair o let the on one’s en- Cecilia Loftus makes the most of the younger generation — seduction Vi joyment, so they won't have to sneak — part of his spouse; Harry MeNaugh- mamas in a state of incalescence, I 4 it out for themselves at the matinées. ton clowns the role of a chronic cus- propose an immediate reduction f The play I am thus giving a good tomer amusingly; Hugh Buckler trans-Atlantic er rates so t | i neighborly notice to is an elaboration happily cast as the invading moralist; our farce writers may locate a few i of a one-act piece by Forrest that Dr, and a charming ingénue, Sidney new fanc Here is something for | , Mencke: nd I printed in the old begins her stage career interestingly — the officials of the Guggenheim Foun- ae Smart Set magazine when we were in the role of the youngest daughter dation to take under advisement. HY younger and gayer fellows. Its gen- Whom the visiting firemen prefer to * * « Wi eral ide also contained, in the the departed Mabels and Pearls, Srvenat other plays that I reviewed HAR following year, in a short play pro- - «8 during the last few weeks have al- a duced at the Grand Guignol in Paris; N connection with the comparative ready gone to the storehouse, so there HATE its title, as I rei newness of the basic idea of For- is little use doing anything about ie Bienfaitri It rest’s entertainment, I am brought to them. They were one and all rub- ie fresh ideas go in the theatre—and any speculate gain why it is that the boys bish; they were produced by men of is some- who go in for this kind of theatrical (Continued on page 29) dirty play with a fresh id comicbooks.com