Life — April 8, 1920 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: Wall” is a highly immorsl play. However, the play is not likely to convince anyone of anything. It is so full of inac ies and improbabilities that, in spite of some bumor and ne melodramatic ingenuity, it discredits all that it attempts to assert in behalf of spiritualism. As an instance of its glar ing inaccuracy, the author makes the plot hinge on the heroine having recently served a term at Sing Sing prison. In fact there have been no female prisoners at Sing Sing for almost twenty years. The play is mildly amusing along pretty well exhausted melodramatic lines, and that is all. Symptoms of Spring Fever Go HK & N°" often does a girl-and-music show provide any- HE best solution of the housing problem yet suggested is t but the sheerest, unreasoning appeal to th that provided by the baby kangaroo at the Barnum-Bailey- senses of sight and hearing. most frequently shockin Ringling circus. In his mother’s pouch he finds not only or tiring both, The trivial title, “What's in a board and lodging, but traveling accommodations with oppor. Name?” ested nothing out of the ordinary in tunitics for looki and observing what is going on in the this line of entertainment, so it was surprising to outside world. He has all the comforts of home combined find, so heralded, a quite unusual amount of really with the facilities of a touring car, In addition he is a bright- interesting material. First off, the piece has a sa eyed and attractive little individual quite worth going to se tirical thread on which are st its great quantity And of course he is only a small fraction of the big circus of striking cffects. There are girls and music in which, in spite of its age as an institution, manages to keep the usual liberal supply, but they are utilized with quite up-to-date in novelties. So long as the birthrate con rare accompaniment of brains Transparent curtains and novel ligh some of the latter at times very bad—are combined to produce results that are much out of the or- dinary and most pleasing. Some one with artistic f has used these resources and music industry with exceptional in- telligence. It also took a new kind vf appreciation to add to a girl-and-m show the ability of Beatrice Herford kind of material shown in Mr. Ja uffman's cameo playlets. The ballet itled “A Young Man's Fancy,” th nce, “The Silver Bubble,” and the ature showing a succession of different epoch brides all strike a new al lightful note in entertainment of this sort, In so far as Mr. John Murray Anderson is responsible for it all, he is the benefactor of a jaded public The incessant and unfailing patrons of the girl-and-music show may get a jolt when they sce anything with as is displayed in " but the jolt will do the ery is pretty well exposed in Mr Fred Jackson's melodrama, “ The Hol in the Wall,” but the exposure, as in the case of Signora Palladino, is nulli fied with the same piffling explanation that, in spite of the trickery, the dead choose these grafting crooks as mediums of communication with their bereaved : relatives. To the extent that it perpetu k = )pir4 ) ates this belief and endorses the swind we hy ling of spiritualism, “The Hole in the puopucrssor:siecrana comicbooks.com