Life — January 9, 1919 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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officers a cart an audience composed mostly of men Janded from their long and strenuous sojourn with our rious fleet Ye Sie \ “Back to Earth” there is an effort to have fun with the | supernatural, but even presented in the lightest comedy cin and played in quickest tempo the theme is too heavy for The idea of an angel having a fortnight’s dy is handled in play form, it morous effect. cation from heaven to visit this world scems to have com: possibilities, but, ingeniously as Jl seems better suited to the magazine types from which it &SO@DOoSH MILY STEVENS has most of her mannerisms under better control than usual in “The Gentile Wife,” but she still scems to take no particular interest in letting her audiences know what she has to say. In the present case, ¢ the charac- ter she represents is rather an inarticulate one, used only as a sort of clothes-rack on which to hang the varied objections of Jewish family to their son's marriage outside the race. As family was depicted, veritably it is to be presumed from © quick appreciation of its peculiarities by the majority of the audience, the objections might very excusably have been < taken, notual, As a play A.Gnfi The Gentile Wife” seems to have very little er, with Astor.—" East Is West," by Messrs. Shipman and Hy Fay Bainter, See above, Belasco.—"' Tiger! Tiger!" by Edward Knoblock, with starr. The strange sexual doings of the London bachelor xr ud interestingly depicted. Belmont —" Little Brother.” by Messrs, Goldsmith and J drama, absorbing and very well acted. Sleeping Partners.” by Sacha Guitry, with Mr. H. B, Warner, The Paris bachelor and one of his raids on the matri: Frances phically hionial institution wittily made vivid, 7 fe Calm. Camilla.” by Clare Kummer, Sparkling little American’ life. Broadhurst. The Melting of Molly," by Daviess and Smith. Sometime,” by Young and Friml. Typical girland body's Sweetheart.” by Messrs, Price Midnight cabaret for the bed-haters, —"Three Faces East,” by Mr, A. I’. Kelly ny melodrama, very well staged A Place in the Sun,” by Mr. Cyril Harcourt, Semi c Well prese by Messrs. Bairnsfather and Eliot nable stage rendering of laughable war drawin: Criterion —" Three Wise Fools.” by Mr. Austin Strong. Agree edy with studies of three elderly New York bachelors. Last week of Under Orders,” by Mr. Berte Thon with Efie Shannon and Mr, Shelley Hull,” Moving war drama with an ingenious plot interpreted by a cast of two. Empire.—" Dear Brutus,” by Sir J, M. Rarrie, with Mr, Williary Gillette, “See above. Forty-fourth Street.—* Miss Simplicity.” by Young and Barrett. Girland-music show with the usual amouny of divertisement, Forty-fourth Street Roof—Norah Bayes in © Ladies First.” Fun and music, mostly supplied by the talented star. Forty-cighth Street." The Rig Chance,” by Messrs. Morris aml Mack.” The effect of war on character dramatically expounded, French.—Repertory of French plays by importea company. Credit ie demonstrations of the French conceptions of the art of act Fulton.—" The Riddle: Woman,” with Mme. Rertha Katich. star pictures: a Danish drama based on blackmail. Gaiety. —" Lightnin’, by Messrs. Winchell Smith and Frank Racon. “Laughable character comedy utilizing as a background the divorce industry of Reno, ‘“LiPE* 57 drawn by reason for existence The types ate accurately author and well played by a yood company, but the problems of inter-racial marriages are not of deep interest except to those immediately concerned, even when for dramatic p poses they are made to bring tragic results. The postulate that a Gentile woman who marries a Jew is bound to be unfaithfol may be founded on fact, but even so it is not interesting dra- matically, Mr. Hopkins has given his play a good setting and good cast, with his customary violation of the laws of natuie in his lighting effects, it LITTLE JOURNEY accurate acquaintance with sleeping-car life and some humor, The latter has been more broadly and uproari- ously exploited in other sleeping-car comedies and farces, but here it is photographically and politely reproduced for the limited requirements of the Little Theatre. A good company has been chosen for the types of usual travelers, the invariable loud lady being well pictured by Jobyna Howland, the Jew drummer by Mr. Paul FE. Burns, a really touching Italian mother by Gilda Varesi, and the providers of the love interest by Mr. Cyril Keightley and, Estelle Winwood. With all its fidelity to fact there is one departure from realism, Never before in a sleeping-car play did the wounded characters, after their vehicle had been smashed to smithereens in an accident, climb up the side of a steep mountain to join in singing Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” Metcalfe. hows that the author has an Globe." The Ca with Julia Sanderson and Mr. Joseph Cawthorn, Girl.and-music show of pleasing. type. yiflerrs—" The Lovisible Foe.” by Mr, Walter Hackett, later. Henry Miller’s.—" Back to Earth,” by Mr. William Le Baron, See Hippodrome. — * Everything. spectacle and ballet, Hudson.—" Friendly Enemies,” by Messrs. Sh with Messrs. Mann and Bernard. Humorous and serions aspect the problems confronting the German-born Ameri during. the recent war. Notice Vaudeville acts with large-scale Rachel Crothers, with Mr, William Col Cheery dy with most of A Little Journey,” by cre. and well play plied by the star Lyceum.—" Daddies." by Mr. Job sented and humorous treatise on thi war orphan on the heart of the American bachelo: Lyric.—" The Unknown Purple.” by Messrs. West and Moore A new and interesting development of the crime melodrama. anhattan:—Mr, Chauncey Olcott in “The Voice of M& by Mr, George M. Coh See above Marine Elliott's —" Tea for Three.” hy Mr. R. C. Megrue. Fx tremely witty, well played and up-to-date American polite comedy _tlerosco.—"* Remnant.” by Messrs. Nicodemi Morton, with Florence Nash, Interesting picture of Parisian Hol n 1840. Park.—Repertory of opera comique by the Society of American Singers, Gilbert and Sullivan's delightful operettas well rendered. _ Pixmouth.—Tolstoi’s* Redemption " with Mr, Jolin Barrymore Strong acting by the star in a serious Russian drawa, Princess —“ Oh, My Dear,” by Messrs. Rolton, Wodehouse and Hirsch, Very light girl-and-music show in pocket-edition form. Republic—Florence Reed in “Roads of Destiny.” Unique play L. Hobble pre softening eifect of the French nnetl,” illustrating the unerring work of Fate. Selwyn.—" The Crowded Hour.” by Messrs. Selwyn and, Pollock, with Jane Cowl. Showing how ‘a New York telephone girl's love affair “could ranged w Shubert“ The Retrothal,"” Maeterli Bird.” Poetry and symbolism set forth Thirty-ninth Street. Vanderbilt, — man, See above. Winter Garden, alleviation of the Ziegfeld’s Frolic nterfere with the conduct of the late perfectly well nck's sequel to “The Blue n charming stage pictures ~" Keep It to Yourself.” Notice later. y Stevens in “The Gentle Wife,” by Rita Well. “Sinbad.” Girland-music treatment for the ments of the t. b, m. —Cabaret counter-irritant for insomnia, comicbooks.com