Life — May 2, 1918 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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The Camoufi arrive in time for the beginning of the principal play. The new market for one. act pieces provides our aspiring drama- tists with opportunity for a try-out of their powers something akin to the place that the short story holds in literature. When the public comes to a better un- derstanding and liking of these composite bills the little theatres will have a still greater importance as an educational in- stitution for authors and actors. R. HARRY LAUDER in one of his mew songs propounds the theory that if the sailor has a sweetheart in every port, the sailor's sweet heart in turn has a sweetheart on every ship, which, if pessimistic, is plausible. In any case it is set forth in the humor- ous, musical and always magnetic way that makes the little Scotchman a charac- ter by himself among stage entertainers. Popular as he has always been with his audiences, the war has brought to him a personal regard based on his own loss of a son and on the value of his services to the British, He has cheered up the fight- ers at the front with his professional ability ind he has been a mighty raiser of funds for war charities. He has lately been using his gift for making people open their pockets to the advancement of Liberty Loan, with very sul stantial results, our own ged Steed: I'VE OFTEN HEARD OF THE HORRORS OF WAR, BUTT NEVER EXPECTED TO UE ONE ees? GUIDE 723 Forty-fourth Street Roof.—Closed. Forty-eighth Street, —“ The Man Who Stayed’ at Home.” Interesting and_well pre- “d drama of German spies in England. _Fulton.—Mr. Chauncey Olcott in Once Upon a Time.” by Rachel Crothers. The star and a delightful little girl actress ppro- vide agreeable entertainment. _, Globe.—** Jack o° Lantern,” with Mr. Fred Stone. Elaborate girland-music show as a hackground for the star's athletic fun. Greenwich Village—Three playlets. See above, Harris.—Closed. Henry Miller’ Marriage ‘of Conveni Hippodrome. — * Vaudeville, hallet and spectacle on a large scale. Hudson. —" Nancy Lee.” by Mr. Walters," Well acted “play story dealing with the det Ameri fe fir, Sydney Grundy's “A Notice later, ngene Going Up." Amusing and tune- ful musical play with aviation as its topic, Longacre.—Closed. Lycenm.—" Tiger Ros picturesquely staged mel dian Northwest. Well played, and drama of the Cana- tt's—“ The Fyes of Yo sof a woman's life interest: ind his songs th vaudev m Morosco.—" Lombardi, Ltd.," by sew ty tons. The slang of the day and a comedy demonstration of the sentimental side of the fashionable dressmaking in New York. Par even Days’ Leave,” hy Mr, Wal- ter Howard. War melodrama with thrilling scenes. Playhouse-" The Little Teacher,” by Mr Harry James Smith, Mary Ryan as the coun With all this Mr. Harry Lauder has {ty schoolteacher “in an interesting rural not lost one whit of his power as an en- "Plymouth tertainer, and his power to move his audi- Pell’s House ® - Princess . Lady! Lady!" by Messrs, ences by his personal magnetism seems Rolton, Wodehouse and ‘Kern, — Diverting even to have increased. Metcalfe. small-scale girkand-music @), /CONFIDENTIAL ys Nazimova in Thsen's “A tice later Punch and Judy.—" April,” by Mr, Herbert Osborne. Fairly interesting dream play show: LD, ine the ‘alternatives ina woman's Ife. Republic— Parlor, Bedroom and Rath.” by Messrs. Bell and Swan. Vv ible rough-house farcical comedy. Shubert —" The Copperhead,” by Mr. Au: gustus Thomas, with Mr. Lionel Barrymore in the leading part. The spy problem in our own Civil War made into at interesting and well acted play. Thirty-minth Stre A Cure for Cura bles,” by Messrs, Biggers and Whitman, A humorous showing of the way Americans are victimized by the sanitarium doctors, ry lau, TSS Astor.—" Fancy Free” with Mr. Clifton Crawford. Jolly girland-music show with clever lines and the feminine contingent un- usually attractive Belasco.—" Pol dy_of to-day Beimont,—Closed. Bijouw—" A Pais of Petticoats,” by Mr. gs tlarcours Clever and well acted light Vanderbilt, — Look!” The ragtime Booth.o-” Seventeen,” by Mr. ooth Tark. Sona continuously featured in a smal-stage. ington. "If you were ever a boy in love or tl je ever had a boy oe with you will i d a OF thie play Rann Kennedy. | Notice later. Broadhurst —" Maytime.” Musical comedy Rann Kennedy, Notice laters 2 atmosphere of se of the gitland-music worship, with especial regard to the devotions of the t. b. m Ziegfeld Midnight Frotic.—A daylight-sav- jevice in the form of eats, drinks and ig cabaret performance. with good music and a Century Roof, —Mide cabaret entertainment se who do believe in the “carly to bed” adage: Cohan and Harris—" A Tailor-Made Man.” Light comedy treatment of the theory that good clothes are an aid to business success. Comedy.—The are Players in Oscar Wilde's . € above. . Flo Flo." Ordinary girl-and-music show with the women a little more undressed than usual, Criterion, —Closed, ess Before T Goodman make Messrs, ter dicate me of the wing-picture busi- Potash laughable aspects of the mi ness. Barrymore in“ Relind: Forty Mr. D. 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