Life — October 3, 1912 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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1912 sottishness which disfigure the great ma- jority of musical comedies. In which Mr. Bennett agrees exactly the most lofty pillars of American In speaking of Mr. Cohan’s per- as vulgar the aforesaid with * taste.” formances “ pil- word correctly, and not as with “inde- cent” or meanings Mr. Bennett seems to think are included of the lars" have used the being synonymous ACiOU: whic! word “vulgar” onary definition, In that Mr. Cohan and his plays taught bad bad manners, the American critics have not for a moment implied that he also taught bad morals in spite the criticism taste and UT little In his thoroughly amusin, he has certain- In his excel- discovering on count. com: edy, ly discovered a better self. lent acting of the title part there is not a touch of the blatant, repulsively postur- ing, Yankee Doodle low comedian. Al- though the part is at first that of a dissi pated young man, he keeps down the “tough” side and gradually, by quiet and legitimate methods, puts the rdle on a plane of really dignified acting. Whet formerly were freshness and cocksureness have become ingenuousness and ceri of touch. The nasal quality of hi is subdued to the disappearing The change is an amazin is almost Broadway Jones,” voice point. what fol- mi quite as well in one, and, s remarkable, his persona to like h development as was to a considerably lower grade of intelligence. Although he is his own author and producer, Mr. Cohan does not in “Broadway Jones” show the in- artistic tendencies of most actor nagers. He has not allotted all lines and and he has not lowing seen the new when he wteri the good situations to himse! sought to exaggerate his own acting by choos- ing inferior actors for his cast. He has every given good opportunities to his father and and intelligent Myrtle Tannekill, and to other clever people, such as George Parsons, Ada Gilman, Rus- sell Pincus and M. J. Sullivan. On the of the joy over the one it is a pleasure to change in the methods of Mr. Cohan, And it may be added that if he has be- gun, he has a bright future. one, includ: mother, his pretty leading woman, principle sinner, record t he continues a LIFE OW we have the news of a series of Sunday night subscription perform- ances at one of the leading theatres. These performances will be open ‘o any one who has the price of a subscripi sn ticket. Of course this is obviously a pre ext to avoid the Iaw against Sunday perform. The pretext is so thin that the authorities will probably see through it It is doubtful that New York wants Sunday evening theatres. When that doubt is dispelled it won't be difficult to change the law ances oooo°e Gas M* ORESTES UTAH BEAN, who wrote “An Aztec Romance,” spent money on staging it and hired the Manhattan Opera House to produce it for a run of one week, may congratu- late himself that he chose such a civ ized place as New York for the awful infliction. In a ruder community the play would not have run, but Mr. Bean would, and he would have had to run pretty fast to escape lynching. Metcalfe. ooo0°0 Tota DOZ. Frances Starr in “The Case of by Mr. W. E. Locke. Notice later. Broadway.— Wanky Panky.” music show of the usual kind the summer time to ma man forget that his wif Casino.—"* The Girl.and- provided in ¢ the tired business 's in the country. Merry Countess.” Old. Baevaly— STAGE STRUCK fashioned but delightful Strauss music well sung by a good cast and brilliantly staged. Cohan’s Comedy.—" Fanny's George Bernard Shaw. The Shaw wit and hurled as usual at the middle class sh hypocrite and snob. Clever but very “Broadway Jones.” See above. irst Play,” by Mr. —" Tantalizing Tommy.” Notice —"Menry V." with Mr. Lewis thin the Law.” Thrilling, and well acted American melo: drama, with some enlightenment on public evils. Empire—Mr, John Drew in Mr, Alfred Sutro’s “The rplexed Husband.” Ex. tremely clever and well acted polite cot with telling drives at suffragism. Fortr-cighth Street—" Little ble farce, deriving its mix-up in hotel ‘roo: Fulton.—" June Madness,” Winthrop Ames. Goicty.—" Officer 666." rious moments. Extremely Garrick.—Mr. John Mason tack.” See above. Globe.—" The Charity Girl.” Harris—Mr. Arnold Daly Notice later. Hippodrome. — “Under Many Fla Tas the customary brilliant ballet and. spe Je, but the foreign pictures are specially impressive, Hudson.—Mr. Robert Loraine in “Man and Superman,” Knickerbocker. —“ Oht Notice later. Lyceum.—Miss “Mind the Paint’ Girl” by Arthur Pinero. A drama of life in the musical-show world in London, Well done but not up to the Pinero standard. Lyrie.—" The the Rex Reach novel into a brilliant melodrama, arine Eliot's. —" Ready Money Counterfeit: currency as the basis for credit made the subject of an amusing and well-acted light nedy. Park.—" My Test Girl” by Messrs, Ch: ing Pollock and Rennold Wolf, ci d-music show, with Mr. Clift Crawford as the star, Mildly amus- Playhouse. —" Tought and Paid For.” Repub ne Governor's Lady.” Ielasco production of a not remark: play, with Emma Dunn as the Teading actress. etter presented than the material warrants. Thirt Strect.—" The of the House A husband's i as the main spring of a dram: Miss Rrown. fun from a produced by Farce with “The At Notice later “ Steve.” Shaw's On! Di Rillic Burke efer-Do-Well.” Turning not especially Master fidelity ninth Wollack's, —“ Honest See above Webs by the Jim) Blunt.” the Pe Pulls the A Scrape of author of “ Bunty Notice later. Winter Gorde The Passing Show of 1912." nd music and vaudeville, Elaborate and generous in quantity. Strings.” comicbooksirem