Life — October 10, 1918 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Astor.—Mr, and Mrs. CONFIDENTIAL’ GUIDE Sidney Drew in “ Keep Her Smiling.” by Mr. J. 1. Booth. Diverting amt well acted comedy of business fife. Belasco,—"* Daddies,” by Mr. well staged s set forth * Sleeping Partners” ighbor,” Ly Messrs, Gordon and Clemen i Booth, —" Watch Your Ni with humorous touches, Broadhurst,—* Maytime,’ Casino.—" The Maid of th THE ORIGINAL CAST saiser had a division of dragoons of the build and courage of Irs. Guildford, his affairs might not be in such parlous state s they seem to be at this writing, Cathleen Nesbitt supplies telligent charm to a rather shadowy but conventional your n role, and the rest of the company is sufficient inn: stly important parts. Mr. Mande himself plays Blinn Corbett, an pecuniary straits who here his career has been cut short because he had eloped h his colonel’s wife. That he had married the lady does not er the situation, Therefore he is obliged to live a life which glishman in anxious to get back into the army, <a constant bluff as to his monetary and military regularity. le manages to make this bluffing fairly amusing, largely by a resort to a species of refined butioonery. Without this treat ment there would apparently have been very little to the part The play is a polite nothing with hardly a shadow of a plot nd few situations. Its lines provoke a good many smiles and occasionally a laugh, but “The Saving Grace" in cambrie tea served very politely and’ with no possibility of’serions or harm- SB #G it W YORK seems to have reached the saturation point in the way of theatres. So far this has been the busiest season on record in the matter of new productions, but there has not yet been a week without at least three or four im- portant theatres kept closed for lack of satisfactory dramatic tenants for their stages. In spite of the war—perhaps because ful results. of the war and its activities—a lot of money has gone into the box-offices this season, A few attractions, very few, have heen doing a turn-away business, but the fickle and uninformed public has refused to support some others of very considerable merit in their respective lines, at the same time giving a living support to some of worse than mediocre merit. The mysteries of Solomon are as nothing compared with the way of the pub- lic with the theatres. Metcalfe, John T.. Hobble. The pathos and humor of adopting French war nd well played comedy strongly showing the Helasco touch, with Mr. If, BL Warner, Notice later Spy drama, interesting and Young and Romberg Original and charming musical pl Mountains.” Well sung and picturesque comic operetta from London Central —" Forever After.” by Mr. Owen Davis, with Mics Alice bad" with Mr. AL. Jolson as the leading come ter Garden success transplanted ta a new sector Century Grove.—Midnight cabaret, Cohan." Head Over Heels.” by Messrs. Woolf and Kern, with as the star, ly musical piece with good opportunities for ties of the sparkling an and Harris. — c A, P. Kelly played spy drama with abun tv.— An Ideal Hushand," by Oscar Wilde. English satirical dy with clever lines and acast of well known artists Cort.—"* Fiddlers Three.” by Messrs. Duncan and Johnstone. Comic operetta with cheery music and a good ca Criten The Awakening.” Notice later. Eltinge —" Under Orders.” hy Mr. Rerte Thomas, w non and Mr, Shelley Hull, Highly interesting and ingenious drama with a cast of two. Empire.—" The Saving Grace," by Mr, Haddon Chambers, with Mr. Cyril Maude. See above. urth Strect.—Closed, ighth Street—" The Woman on the Index.” by Lillian 7. ey orge Broadhurst. Highly mysterious erime melo= drama, developed in a way to keep everyone guessing. Fulton.—Closed. by Messrs. Winchell Sn Amusing com a well drawn, eccentric sidelights of the divorce industry of ‘Re Globe.—Mr. Booth Tarkington's “ Penrod" put into play form by Mr. E. KE, Rose, The funny side of boy life more cleverly trans ferred te the sta in could be thought possible ‘i The Retter ‘Ole," by Messrs, Rairnsfeather J Frank Bacon. 1 laughable Slender girland-music play Hippodrome. Everything.’ Ballet, spectacle and vaudevil tures on a large scale. Hudson." Friendly Enemies, hy Messrs, Shipman and He an, Messrs, Mann and Bernard. Humorous and etic aspects of the problem of the American of German birth, well interpreter Knickerbocker.—" Someone in the House,” by Messrs. Evan: cival and Kaufman, Complicated but a ing crime mel Liberty. — i Up.” Musical comedy dealing with aviation, uneful and Longacre—"* 3 Lies" with Mr, William Collier. Notice later. Mr. Otis Skinner in “ Humpty Dumpty.” by Mr. HLA Excelient acting of a comedy very. Hritish and. not markably clever. Lyric" the Unknown Purple.’ ‘by Messrs, West ar Ingenious development of a story. of vengeance in origin umn of “The Wanderer.” Parable of the prodigal tized into elaborate spectacle, EMiott’s.—" Tea for Three.” by Mr. RL C. Megruc. Clever 1 comedy, full of sparkling lines, ‘orosco.—* One of Us.” by the Hattons, Flashy comedy with a perverted view of New York life, Park.—Revertory of opera comique by the Society of American Playhouse, —. “ She Walked in Her Sleep," by Mr. Mark Swan. al comedy wth a not high percentage of fun Plymouth —Tolstoi's Awakening” with Mr. John Barrymore later. ess.—Closed Rerublic. —* Where Ponpies Bloom" with Marjorie, Rambeau F na with the ever-present domestic triangle. . Please,” by Jane Cowl and Jane Mur Shubert —" Someti and Friml, Notice later. Thirty-ninth Strect-—" 1. O, by Messra Turnbull and Mack, with Mary Nash and Mr. José Ruben. Notice later. derdilt—" The Matinee Hero," by Messrs. Ditrichstein and , with the former in the title réle. Notice late ter Garden.—" Passing Show of 1918." Solace for the t. b. m. ustomary form of girls, music and scenery, all on a gorgeous Ziegfeld’s Frotic.—Midnight cabaret. comicbooks.com