Judge — July 12, 1930 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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O AIRE | GEORGE JEAN NAGIHAN | | a N the popular estimation and cer- tense experience,” and the tissue- while Prof. Lockridge of the Sun { tainly even more so in that of the- papery “Rebound” as “food for came forth with, “Smartly written, | atrical managers, critics are fel- thought.” Prof. Barton, of Life, let gayly and engagingly acted.” “House { so sour that if they swallowed a #0 with “brilliant satire” for “To- party,” the professor of the Times { del of vinegar it would, by the in- and of “The Royal Virgin,” found to be full of “gripping scenes | evitable process of violent chemical that went'te ‘the’atorehouse instanter’ “and bleived with capacity to hold low reaction, instantancously turn into on grounds of complete demerit, the the interest until the ultimate cur- 4 peach nectar. The average hazlitt is gent on the Evening World cricd, tain.” “Has the audience in shrieks | looked upon as one suffering from ex- “The best of the season!” Upon the with the tears running out of th | cessive boredom, bitterness against production of the feeble little “Broken eyes," reported the Herald Tribune fj | the rest of the world, lack of appre- Dishes,” the Mlle. Smith whooped, cynic of “Everything's Jake"; and “A | ciation of and everything, astig- “It should be scen at all costs as one brave, audacious and provocative p and. un- Telegram kes a Holiday.” atism, a calloused he jaundice, low blood pressure and a season,’ general atrophy of all the normal sen- gan, sibilities. Nothing pleases him so Post excitedly ser much as a nice big failure; nothing live as lon the subway itself!" vinced. let's go on. The | tickles him so greatly producer When “Wake Up and Dream” set its cheese-cake called “It Never Rains” ced into brankruptey nothing de- audience to snoring, Dr. Darnton was declared by Prof. Dudley, of the lights him so hugely as the rottenness stepped promptly up to the plate with Evening World, to be “a delightful and acting. “Tuneful and jolly show sure to de- play.” “Apron Strings” was hailed legend wears cap and bells, to light the town,” and when the wocful by one of the boys as being “as bright say nothing of a tin ca At gimerack and overnight flop, “Queen as a Rockefeller dim nd “The In- as the boys who criticize play Be was uncovered, the Evening _ finite Shoeblack” by P nan of York are concerned. For it takes World delivere d itself of this boom- the Mirror as with ly a casual scrutiny of. them to boom: welcome addition to the poignant beaut “Provides highly prove that they are about the most — season's all-too-small list—a delight- satisfactory evening in the th enthusiastic and wholesale endorsers ful comed. ought to buzz was the World’s reaction to the doo- and whoopers-up of almost every- around here for a long time!” dlesock called “City Haul,” and thing theatrical this side of New “Jenny,” that dose of blah, drew“ y exciting,” “Beyond the ordi- Haven and William Lyon Phelps. It this tribute from the World gent: nary entertainment” and “Warm and is a rare day that the newspaper gives Miss Cowl four acts of magnifi- moving” the reactions to the critiques do not cough up a load of cent opportunity,” while the Tele- lollipop, ael and Mary,” on the superlative blooms in one direction or gram went on to proclaim, “Jane part of the World, Sun and Herald another, And it is usually as hard to Cowl in ‘Jenny’ rouses the audience Tribune, respectively. “You'll enjoy find less than a half dozen reports of, to approval without stint” (I must it—you just can't help enjoying it shows that don’t go in for thrillings, have been out in the lobby when that — if only you will go to see it, for it wonderfuls and amazings as it is to happened). Of “Rebound,” Dr. that kind of show!” shouted th find a drug-store telephone booth that Broun in the Telegram said, “The American of cheap little “Ritz doesn’t smell. On even a “Nancy’s best light comedy written hereabouts “One of the rarest evenings of tl Private Affair,” Prof, Seldes report in ten or twenty years'’—which, you season” and “A thing of beauty “thunderous applause"; of miserable will admit, is going some; “Thunder were the testimonials of the MM. At- tripe like “The Blue Ghost,” the in the Air,” the Mirror heralded as ‘a kinson and Garland to “Berkeley Journal proclaimed, “An evening of thing of searching beauty and played — Squar thrills and laughter. Bound to pack by a flawless cast,” while the World Katharine Cornell, according to Dr. ‘em in”; of a dud like “The Interna- gave issue to “startling and signifi- Seldes, is “the finest actress of our tional Revue,” the merican n- cant”—significant of what, wasn’t ag “Those We Love,” according nounced, “A fastly paced show that said; and “Winter Bound” drew from to Dr. Mantle, was dances its way nimbly through an the ening World, “It sets a high ails as it is possible for evening”; and of the depressing “The mark for other offerings of the cur- ywright-producers to aim”; “The Channel Road,” Prof. Mantle sang, rent season to shoot at!" “Other Green Pasture: cording to Dr. “Something notably worth-while add- Men’s Wives,” one of the worst ever, Littell, is “one of the finest things the m rt, dyspepsia, of the really touching comedies of the — produ dof the mystery sh derstanding,” wrote the ubway Express,” the Evening judge of “Death amed, “It should But ma still uncon- d with skill, beauty “tense dr: m: ed to the living drama!” according to reliable report, tickled theatre of our generation has seen”; The New Yorker described the Prof. Garland to the point of observ- and “Journey's End,” according to whangdoodle, “Dishonored Lady,” as ing, “A fine evening's entertainment,” (Continued on page 25) 16 comicbooks.com