Life — May 31, 1917 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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PUZZLE PICTURE FIND THE SAFEST AND THE MOST DANGEROUS POSSIBLE OCCUPATIONS FOR A DAY IN JUNE or value. The long runs of the present season have not been so much evidence of the unusual expertness of our play- wrights as of money to burn by theatre- goers. The imported plays have been almost a negligible quantity. Mr. Shaw's “ Get- ting Married,” very well played, made a ripple. Mr, Maugham’s deliberate insult to American women in England, called “Our Betters"” (which would have been hissed off the stage anywhere but in New York), has been pecuniarily successful in spite of, or because of, its nastiness. en such foreign literary lights as Mr. Galsworthy and Mr. Chesterton couldn't send us much that we cared for. HAS aL Astor. — “His Little Widows.” By Rida Johnson Young and Mr. W. C. Duncan. Verting musical comedy with’ some st doings in Mormondom as its cackground. Belasco.—Closed. Bijou. —“ The Knife,” by Mr. Eugene Walter. Absorbing and exciting sex melo- drama voicing an argument that criminals of ertain type should be used as material for section, Booth.— cessful Calamity, comedy drama dealin in the life of a New time. Casino.— You're in Love.” Comic oper- etta of the usual type, but amusing and well done. Century.—Closed. Cohan_and Harris’s.—Last week of “ The Willow Tree,” by Messrs Benrimo and Har- Mr. William Gillette in “A Suc- by Clare Kummer, Bright with possible episodes ‘ork family in our own The ‘season has been a highly profitable one from the managerial point of view, but artistically it recalls the gentleman who jumped off the Brooklyn bridge with the remark, “Here goes nothing.” ORG MORORSRORORD ROMO) ON'T place too much confidence in this week's Confidential Guide.” New. York theatrical managers are very susceptible to heat, and some of them are looking for one or two hot evenings to justify closing the doors on attractions which have palled on New York, but which they are keeping going for future road purposes. Metcalfe. rison Rhodes. Japanese drama, poetic in tone and very picturesquely staged. Comedy.—The Washington Square Players with a mixed bill of the best playlets they have done this season. Cort—" Upstairs and Down,” by Mr. and Mrs, Hatton. Cleverly written and amusing but high-spiced comedy of life as it may per: haps be lived in some unknown circles of Long Island society. Criterion. —" Christus.” Religious movie play. Eltinge—Moving pictures. Empire.—J. M. Barrie's “The New Word,” “ Old Friends" and “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals." The last worth sceing. The other two not a bit like Barrie. Forty-fourth Street.—Closed. Forty-eighth Street. — " The Chair,” by Mr, Bayard Veiller. Ingenious crime’ melodrama, well done and keeping the audience guessing from start to finish, Thirteenth 951 Fulton.—" Pals First." by Mr. Lee Wilson Dodd. "Southern romantic comedy with the hobo “heroes. well impersonated by “Messrs. Tom Wise and William Courtenay, Gaiety.—" Turn to the Right,” by Messrs. Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard, Laugh: able demonstration of the’ theory. that pure Country air and virtuous rural. environment may have a reformatory. influence on young men with criminal tendencies. Gorrick.—Closed. Globe.—Laurette Taylor in, “ Out There,” by Mr. Hartley Manners. A sort of a re- cruiting argument threading an interesting and well presented war plays Herris.—Jane Cowl as part author and heroine of “Lilac Time. Pleasant romantic comedy using for its background. northern France in ‘war times Hudson.— Our Betters,” by Mr. Somerset Maugham. Extremely purple, but clever, t0- y comedy, written by ‘an’ Englishman to Voice an insuiting attack on Amertcan women who have married into British nobility. Knickerbocker-—Closed. Longacre.—Mr, William Collier in“ Noth- ing But. the Trath,” by Mr. James Mont: gomery.’ Very humorous setting forth of the theory that it really hurts a Wail Street man to tell the truth continuously. Marine Elliott's" Love 0° Mike cal comedy clever in itself and. giv opportunity to a collection ‘of unui tractive girls Morosco.—" The Brat with Maude Ful- ton as author and star. Rather elementary comedy based on the adventures of a strect Hitl taken into wealthy society. Playhouse—" The Man Who Came Back,” by Mr. Goodman. Strong drama, well done and with its story rehearsing the career of a young man who started wrong and then turned around. Princess—" Oh, Boy.” Musical farce, tune- ful ‘and featuring a small and. well chosen chorus of attractive young women, Republic. —"" Peter Ibbetson,”. dramatized from Du Maurier by Mr. John, N. Raphael. Dream play with a good cast and successfully reproducing ‘the, atmosphere of the book on which it is founded. Shubert—" Her Soldier Boy." Comic oper: etia of the customary kind with its scene laid in Belgium at the beginning of the present " Musi- ample ly at- Thirty-ninth Street. — Nora Bayes_in her unique vaudeville and song bill. Showing what a clever woman can do almost entirely on her own. jer Garden. —" The Passing Show of Elaborate, clean and big girland-music ntended for the t. b. m., but pleasing others as well. NUCLEUS OP A MOVEMENT TO DEMAND MORE SPACE BETWEEN THEATRE SEATS comicbooks.com