Judge — July 4, 1931 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE is the ideal traveling companion on long or short trips by rail, steamer, air or automobile. It creates the happy atmosphere. Neither shore nor mountain home is complete without JUDGE— it is the happy week-end guest. CLIP THE COUPON JUDGE, 18 E. 48th Street New York, N. Y. Please send Judge for $5.00; [J 2 years, $7.80; (] 21 weeks, $2.00; to CTHE THEATRE (Continued from page 16) showed plainly that even twenty cents would, so far as they felt about it, have been about a dime too much. Time and again I have gone around to look at a play or show that was first-rate stuff in the early stages of its run and have found that it had be- come a sour caricature of its original self. It has got so, indeed, that it is dangerous for a critic to recommend almost any performance after it has run a couple of months. The actors loaf on their jobs; the producer, busy other directions, doesn’t concern himself with the enterprise any longer; and the public, hornswoggled by the early reviews attesting to the merit of the exhibition, pay out their good money and then conclude that the reviewers must have been drunk or crazy. Before the worthy Mr. Gordon sends his “Three's a Crowd” on tour next season, he had better have a confidential talk with the com- pany and the stage crew. I don't want to get a lot of letters next Fall from people who have patronized the show, on the strength of my son’s recommendation, in: with Steel where it is, I can’t afford it. Nathan Recommends ‘agon” (New Amsterdam during the heat. g revue, with the Astaires, the . the Mile. Broderick and the M “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” (Empire)— Katharine Cornell in a fine presentation o well-written romantic comedy. “Once In a Lifetime” (Plymouth)—Satirizing | the screen folk to the tune of one of the best farces in many a theatrical day. “Rhapsody in Black” (Harris)\—A brownskin show that gets rid of most of the usual sten- cils. Gilbert and Sullivan Repertoire (Erlanger) Enough said Notes on Other Exhibits “Third Little Show” (Music Box)—One com: ical skit and one fair tune, but in the main a revue that doesn’t get within hailing dis- tance of Little Show No. “Unexpected Musband™ (48th Street)—Terri- le. b! “Gasoline Gypsies” (Lyric)—Even worse. “A Modern Virgin” (Booth)—Aside from the colleen Sullavan, zero. “Crazy Quilt” (44th Street)—Phil Baker will amuse you and so, at moments, will Ted Healy, but the rest of the evening ‘is dull. “Grand Hotel" (National)—The year’s box: office mint, but from a dramatic point of view largely counterfeit. And every now and then the arrest of some simple-minded citizen re- minds everybody that it’s against the law to carry a gun if you don’t use it. —Tep Coox in Los Angeles Examiner comicbooks.com