Judge — June 27, 1931 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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LEA “ILL TAKE HER BACK IF SHE WANTS TO COME BACK” There's many a lonesome heart that's not on Broadway. Why not get your copy of JUDGE— it makes you see the funny side of life and affords many happy hours of laughter. And, by the way, why not send a subscription to your summer home? SUB- SCRIBE NOW poe — | JUDGE—18 East 48th Street ' New York, N. Y. Please send JUDGE for [] | year, $5.00. © 2 years, $7.80. [] 21 weeks, $2.00. ema CTHE THEATRE (Continued from page 16) ago and from the trivial drawing- rooms of the Englishmen whose plays crowded the American stage in the same period. A few words in forecast. From present indications, the coming season promises to be much more important, from a dramatic point of view, than the one now gone. Among the planned exhibits are a number of plays of unusually good omen. First among these is Eugene O'Neill's tril- ogy, “Mourning Becomes Electra,” by all odds his most ambitious work and, I may hint to you from a reading of the manuscript, a notable contribution to American drama. On the Theatre Guild’s list, in addition to the O'Neill trilogy, is the satiric comedy by Alfred Savoir, “He,” which, as I told you after the try-out in Philadelphia, is a witty and intellectually piqua theological spoof. The new and yet unfinished Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur farce, announced as “The Twentieth Century” but probably to be known as “Broadway Limited,” from all reports will do to the theatri cal business what the same authors’ did to the news- paper—which, if true, will be suffi- cient unto the evening. These are a few samples of what we may expect. I happen to be privy to a number of others that sound equally sauceful but am not at liberty to confide them to you. So I suppose that there is noth- ing left for you to do but to take my unwontedly optimistic word for what it may be worth. Nathan Recommends “The Band Wagon” (New Amsterdam)— What with the Astaires, the Miles. Broderick and Losch, Frank Morgan and a lot of other things, you couldn't ask for much more than this gala show gives you “Once tn a Lifetime” aren't many funnier farces. wheezes on Holly wood (Plymouth)—There A wheeze to end It is gay stuf. “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” (Empire) —It brings back to the Empire Theatre a touch of that playhouse’s old flavor. Gilbert and Sullivan Repertoire (Erlanger)— Revivals of the G, and S. unceasing delights. “Rhay ly in Bleck” (Harris)—Very good Negro w, considerably above the usual thing of its kind. Nathan Recommends— with Reservations “A Regular Guy” (Hudson)—Revival of Pat- rick Kearney’s “A Man's Man” under a new title, A comedy with points of merit cast is an inferior one. Notes on Other Exhibits “Unexpected Husband” (48th Street)—Noth- in this one. It's tripe But the rand Hotel” (National)—Some yery good R; some very good staging, but negli- dramatic stuff. “A Modern Virgin” (Booth)—Little Miss Maggie Sullavan brightens a dull and very cheap sex comedy. “Crazy Quilt” (44th Street)—Phi Baker and Ted Healy are periodically amusing, but the show droops badly when they are off-stage. comicbooks.com