Judge — February 14, 1931 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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Quickly—stop his cough!...S. B. Cough Drops are fine for children’s throats. They give gentle, mild medication. Let Johnny take along a box of S. B. Cough Drops. They protect his throat against raw winds, cold weather—and his own enthusiasm for slush and snow. Do youngsters like them? Just try, once! A favorite confection since 1847. The Theatre (Continued from page 16) ing persuasively to himself, and in general treating Joseph Schildkraut to affair with Joe. As a conse- quence, the play was made to resem- ble an Atlantic City hotel register on which the philandering Mr, Schild- kraut had inscribed “Joseph Schild- kraut and Self.” Save for good performances, despite the handicap, on the part of the Miles. Miriam Hop- kins and Elena Miramova, Schnitz- ler’s charming little comedy accord- ingly went for nothing. But that wasn’t what I started out to write about. The idea I had in | mind was the lighting of the audi- torium, The play was divided into two parts, with a single intermission, Before the curtain went up and during the frequent necessary intermediate changes of setting, the auditorium was kept in soft, languid darkness and it wasn’t long before one succumbed to the mood of the lighting, as one sur- renders to the dim quiet of one’s bed- room. By the time ten o'clock around and one had sat in the da still and soothing theatre for an hour and a quarter, the sandman began sneaking up on one’s ck And I don’t believe the poor quality of the performance had anything to do with it. One of these days our producers will wake up to the fact that nothing puts an audience to sleep more effe tively than these dark auditoriums of the: That's one of the several things most wrong with the theatre, lly overlooked by ; Let the pro- ducers light up their houses brilliantly before the show begins, during scene changes and during the longer inter- missions and, unless I’m ¢ taken, they will soon find that th have a lot easier audiences to play As most of the auditoriums go to it's much more comfortable to 1 one’s evening clothes at home and come to the theatre in pajamas. Nathan Recommends “Once In a Lifetime” nod razz (Music Box)—Holly- larious farce. New York has seen in “The New Yorkers” (Broadway)—Some ex- nt bawdy humor, some good melodies da generally very ‘entertaining show. “The Green Pastures” (Mansfield)—The most widely discussed play of last year and this. ical fantasy as diverting as it is original. “Three’s a Crowd” (Selwyn)—Proving that a satisfactory revue is made up of other things than girls in the nude. “The Vinegar Tree” (Playhouse)—A pleasant comedy lightly scrutinizing the peccadilloes of @ quartet of amorists. “Fine and Dandy” (Erlanger)—Prof, Cook and his latest didoes. 26 Joe greatly mis- ° “You win the pot,” chuckled the He started on a shoe-string. The Russian Envoy Plenipoten- tiary arrives, —Dvaun Opinion comicbooks.com