Judge — July 1933 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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THE * THEATRE of George Jean Nathan THE ART OF PLAY REVIEWI Humphrey Wa which the critic of the Brooklyn Da: Eagle has written that “it doesn’t stand AILING the acute perspicacities of forthright juvenile: Mrs. ich’ Veidurély: Neots Of the acy darlin the grandmother of Mabel’s a chance on Broadway unless they re- dramatica as Mr. Slivovitz, of the En- Chauffeur; indeed, the whole cast is per- write the first, second and third acts”, cyclopedia Britannica, Mr. Bendex, of fection itself, except for the very beau- came to the S! ubertorium last ght. the New Masses, Mr. Gumpibaum, of — tiful young miss who plays (w ver Joan Crawford’s new talkie, “For the ‘Arts and Decoration, and Mr, Finne- the name of the role occupied by any Sake of Love”, which T attended at the gan, of the B'nai B'rith Whiz Bang, | very beautify ug miss). The hand- Capitol last night, is a remarkable p was unenabled to decodify the virtuo: some settings are by Isador Coombes; ture, tense, exciting and dramatic, and ties resident in the paleontological pa- the magnificent costumes are by compares very favorably with her pre- limpsest displayed for the edification of | Brooks; the splendid lighting is the re- vious picture, “For the Love of Love”, | wha P. A. might call the Great sult of the genius of Robert Edmond both of which are indicative of the | White Way in the Shubertorium yester Jones; and the beautiful programs are plight the so-called legitimate the: sundown, The evangel, yclept “Getting Printed by the New York Theatre Pro- is in, Helen Hayes’ he White excellent p! a recommend John Barrymore Topaze”, which the Shuber Mabel’s Garter”, seemed to me—as it stam Co. ter” is also evidently did to Mr. Kelcey Allen, of Women's Wear, Mr. John Heywood - 3rown, of the Post, Mr. Walter Sobel, RPEGGIO, andante, coloratura, here as a play two years of the Mirror, and Mr. Gabriel Gilbert. mazeltov—"Getting Mabel’s Gar- nothing of the pictures—f the American—a translucent and ter”, which came to the Shubertoriu newhat opalesquely opalescent hum- last night, was a greatly improved per- . \ ; , bug or, in Mr. Ring Lardner’s phrase, formance over the one we saw in West- setting Mabel's Garter”, when it was humbug. ither Mr. Otis Skinner, in POrt last summer, The allegro qualit tried out in Newark, the critic of the the role of Fifi, the house-maiden, nor sPrinkled upon the diminished thirds of | Newark Daily News said that “it will picture cin produced rt Gabriel ago, to say ve ones illed “When India Speaks”, “King ong” and “Murders in the Zoo", Of } Miss Helen Haves, in that of the old te second act like salt out of a chryso- be a smash on Broadway and Otis Skin- ] Steamship captain, suggested the im- lite pepper-shaker and glowing like ol ner will steal the show”, while, when petuosities or psephomancies of the Ganymede Mendelssohn's “Die Schir was tried out in Atlantic City, my | necessary histrion though Ada inst the purplish capric friend, Joseph Tutwiler, reported that Isaacs Menken, or maybe it was Glenn 0! the Palisades in the crimson fugue of “it isn’t ready for Broadway and prob Hunter, was not wholly non compos in the Hudson, was assisted with a misty ably never will be; Otis Skinner is woe- ] the titbit of the gendarme. proficiency by the perpetuum mobile of — fully miseast.” | Helen Hayes’ tenderl ing fantaisie i Burns Mantle Otis Ski ng gargling grunt- Brooks Atkinson ing, however, provided a cacophony dis HOREAU has” written, “The O* 2 of the most thoroughly enjoy- — turbing to the remaining sensibilities of woods, the trees and the butterflies, able evenings of the present the- the tympani, olav Hasholem. The scen- birds and bees have a world of their atrical season—thus bringing the total — er of thoroughly enjoyable evening pre by Isador Coombes suggested that it own in Nature, which is not, but should might have been painted by Stravinsky be, the world of man.” Emerson once ha hangover, but the Fackeltanz in observed, “Human destiny cannot be “Getting Mabel’s Garter” as offered un- the first act, directed by the talented Al- controverted nor can it be establish der the auspicious auspices of the bertina Rasch, was a thing of such sheer — finally in terms of man’s ec Messrs. Shubert at the Shubertorium. dazzling beauty, with its accrescende though one may ask, why? “Getting Mabel’s Garter” bears the finale, that it only got Mabel’s gar- duction of “Getti ent theatrical season up to entricities, The pro- ¢ Mabel’s Garter” | stamp of authentic contact with the ter but Morris Gest’s goat. fails, one reflects, to provide a good and 1 characters and situations — involved. sufficient answer, thou in the Bard's (Here, a column devoted to telling the Robert Garland “All the world’s a stage” we may dis- if plot.) The cast is excellent and is B “FORE an aristocratic be-ermined cover a clue. Hazlitt, in well- testimonial to the liberality and muni- and be-orchided audience, the like known essay on the tertium quid exist- ficence of the Messrs. Shubert. Otis of which was never seen in Baltimore, — ing in the ultimate purposes of the Skinner has all the sprightliness of a “Getting Mabel’s Garter”, about which as opposed to the unacted dram: youngster of sixteen; Helen Hayes the critic of the Washington Herald with George Henry Lewes in his matches the nobility of her memorable has reported that “it is destined to run — equally well-known essay on the tertium | performance in “Dear Brutus” in 1909; seven years on Broadway” and about (Page 23, please) 10 ted comicbooks.com