Judge — January 23, 1932 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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“Oh, Pal Mamma says for you and the profes- sor to quit splitting those atoms and go to bed Laugh. be merry. keep smiling. Start today read- s JUDGE regularly. Its pages are filled with the materials that make for prriment. SUBSCRIBE TO JUDGE Judge—18 East 18th Street. New York. N.Y. Enclosed find eheek for 8. 87.80; — 21 weeks 82.00; — 1 i dude — weeks 81.00. 1 year 85.00; — 2 years Name. Address chy = — State— —_—— Canadian and foreign postage 81.00 extra. 1-23 mm | ally: stimuls CTHE THEATRE (Continued from page 16) ¥ the play called “Papavert” that I took a brief look at at the Vanderbilt Theatre was the same play called “Papavert” that has been prospering in Paris for the last six months, my old suspicions as to state of French theatrical taste are doubly confirmed. But as nothing so pathetically incom- petent as the play I saw could pos- sibly run six months anywhere—even in Paris—I_oms animously assume that the local exhibit must have been, ast in some measure, a different All that rem: to be said on ject is that “Of Thee Sing” is a grand show. ee enuin,” by Valentine Willis and Alice Crawford—they putting ‘em on by the half-dozen these nights—is tin-pot spy melo- drama of the kind that was in back in the days of peanut-galleries. Ixperience Unnecessary, an adap- tion by the Mlle, Unger, feeble attempt to pop the trade with routine risqué stuff. “Society Girl,” by sev- eral hundred playwrights past and present—at the moment bearing the collective name of John Larkin, J is the rubbish about the lady who is sexually magne fellow of low social status. The visu- Claire Luce occupies the leading role. PLS. But “Of Thee I Sing” is a grand show. Nathan Recommends “OL Thee 1 Sing” (Music Box)—A musical political satire that provides poteh enters tainment. The best thing of its kind that our theatre has had. d)— ning Becomes Electra” (Gi 7 se I's trilogy. The most widely di a of the year. he better. st skilful retts of Wimpole Street" (Empire) It is still run ng with deserved prose perity at the old. stand. “Brlef Moment’ (Belasco)—Behrman's witty comedy of an introspective young man who marries a cabaret jazz singer. “The Cat and the Fiddle” (Glohe)—A musical Kern supplies the score—that has much mmend it to your attention, The Laugh Parade” (Im rial) the hu morou yhn occupies the the evening, ement is pretty well guar- There are a number of Nathan Recommends—With | Reservations “Reunion in Vienna” (Beck)—The 1 Rive account of themselves in a mild but intermittently diverting Freudian comedy. “Counsellor-at-Law” (Plymouth)—The story of a shyster lawyer told sometimes very ef tively and sometimes in terms of obvious hokum. 'Cynara” (Morosco)—The cause and effect of a sexual lapse made into a play with several | scenes of merit comicbooks.com