Judge — April 18, 1931 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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“Don't look quite 10 naturel, Elmer! If you do not look natural, we will chase your Blues by changing your facial expression — making you smile—laugh—be gay. Smiling is contagious — laughter is invig- orating and healthful. Learn to smile, learn to laugh, be a messenger of good cheer—read JUDGE each week and be assured of joyous laughter throughout the yeor. SUBSCRIBE NOW! JUDGE—18 East 48th Street, New York, Please send JUDGE for [] | yeor, $5.00. [ 2 years, 0 21 weeks, $2.00 The Theatre (Continued from page 16) vided in the New York speakeasies In these institutions, one finds a con stantly increasing wealth of amus: ments, ranging all the way from solo ists to orchestras, duos to quartettes, hoofers to monologists, and mesmer ists to jugglers. These begin per forming at the dinner hour and tan, of them are quite as talented as th: | players offered in. the show-shops More and more in my travels about the city, I note a disinclination of diners to leave their tables at eight forty or so and make off in other di rections. Instead of going to the the atre, the theatre—at least in it phase—is brought to them. The f ure of a considerable number of the big musical shows this season is btless partly to be accounted for the free speakeasy shows. Better were revealed in F (Fields alone excepted were to be had gratis in at least three speakeasies in the Fifties, and better Here” went with the cockt eral places in the same neighborhood The day that the first speakeasy puts on dramatic sketches—and ii happen any time now, Tony, Luigi and Nick in turn assure me—on that day another half dozen theatres. will be shutting up shop. Nathan Recommends “Once in a Lifetime” (Music Box)—Th so best u 1 satirical reet™ (Empir ason’s most distinguished drar Katharine Cornell) in. the The Vinegar Tree™ (Ilayhouse)—A ¢ » retailing the hume s Square)—Excelle ‘and the Mlle. La into a fluffy litt “The Green Pastures” (Mansfield)—Last se son's outstanding. success still reve me of the m nteresting plays in “The inder Bar™ (Ma lively “Three's a Crowd” (Selwyn sort of re with a ca Mien, Clifton’ Webb and “The New Yorkers” (Broadway)—Jim Durante, Hope Willia ious a assistants in enterta “Fine and Dandy” (Erlanger)—I you fetched by Joe Ce oul have a divert Nathan Recommends—with Reservations “As You Desire Me" (Elliott)—Pirande triumphs periodically over a very dul adaptation “Five Star Final” (Cort)—As subtle sewer blast, but what it does to the tal is plenty Fw anh CANUNE PRINTING OO, INT, JAMAICA, Ns Te 66 as | thi in in alo edt mu lay comicbooks.com