Life — October 9, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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HirropKoss The Season Seems to Be Catching Up with Itself girl-and-music industry abounds in hopes that are only occasionally realized One section of the public favors this form of entertainment so strongly that indifferent and even bad examples are able to gain patron- age. It is the spectator looking for something really clever in this line whose hopes are most frequently dashed. So there is unusual cause for rejoicing when there comes along one like “See Saw,” with something in its book, bright in its music, well sung, well played, well danced and staged with excellent judgment and atten tion to detail. The pleasure of finding an offering in the girl-and-music line that is something more than tolerable is an event, and “See § siderably more than tolerable. It is, Ha BA, I HE Hippodrome show this year is a marked improvement is con- . enjoyable, Some of the features are not entirely new and have a look of cheapness, but the vaude- ville numbers are better chosen, some of th on its immediate predecessor. spectacles show originality, gorgeousness and the old disregard of cost, and there is so much in the bill and so much variety that no one can say that he did not get his money’s worth. The joy of going to the Hippodrome is largely increased if you take a child, or children, your own, if you happen to have them; if not, someone's else, and the joy will have even a better quality if you can arrange to take children too poor or too something to go without your help. The Hippodrome is really a New York institution HE accuracy of the character-drawing and the atmosphere in “ Thunder” must be determined by those who have 4 better knowledge of life among the mountaincers in the Bluc Ridge than falls to the lot of many New Yorkers. The princi pal setting of the play provided an impressive mountain vista, and the impersonations for the most part seemed credible. The story and some of the incidents have the familiar ring of previous stage use, but they are woven on a new thread, and some of them are novel. One of them gave a new thrill to the familiar marriage-service line, “If any man have aught to say why this man and woman,” ete., as the preacher nulli fied the invitation by holding in his free ha a husky revolver intended to ward off an expected interruption. brings us in an interesting way into acquaintance with an unfamiliar phase of American life. “Thunder” omits one strong appeal to present popularity If it showed New York the details of the manufacture of moonshine whiskey the theatre would be crowded. QO A AA A ANY sins are committed in Greenwich Village, it is claimed by its boosters, but certain it is that many arc committed in its name. When one journeys to the far-off Grecnwich Village Theatre it is at least with the hope that one will find something which is in a way a bit original, This was the hope of the pilgrims who journeyed to witness “ Katy’s Kisses.” In the title there was a suggestion of something Greenwichy, but, alas, they are only candy kisses, entirely harmless, dramatically and otherwise. There is no need to describe the play, built and acted on hackneyed lines, and perhaps even now on its way to the theatrical potter’ field. “Thunder comicbooks.comuy