Life — April 8, 1920 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Mr. Lionel Barrymore. tinues anywhere near normal a new, con- stituency is provided for the annual visit circus every year, to say nothing perpetual audience of young old- s who can no more resist the smell ¢ peanuts and sawdust than can the ring horse keep inside the re fence when he sees the painted 1s going along the country road. » jaded New York regularly yields to the cireus lure, and in this year of londant money Madison Square Garden isn’t big enough to hold all the metro n rubes who want to get in J-out By —*) “ Medea” or that matter, any ern theatrical production? As ted at the Garrick by Mr. Maurice re, all that is left of the original text, and even that is in transla- the of Euripides, or Greek tragedy, is it instructive as a ul of anything from ancient Greece. catrical representation it must rest In no way attractiveness sas modern tainment exploiting the ideas of its ducers. A nits semblance of architecture Live, it takes to print fy from the dail janice of the attractions at + mentioned, “East Is West.” scene of well atin Chinese S acted intern, “The § Chinese New on- Dau political york's. Chit Melo. well for a ghter.”” lotting, town 1 of with and. nt The Neill. The. Ouija Board," by bur. Notice later. “The Purple Di in. Costu Napoleonic era, light and r urst. Smilin’ T Cowl tic acted, wtih Passion Flower" with Mr, with Mr, ama of the amusing. ‘ough, th and sentimental play, touch of spiritualistic in+ —“My Golden Girl.” d-music show —Revival of * Floradora.” Customary Notice “As You Were,” with and Irene Bordom. Gi v of the conventional type. “The Hottentot.” with Mr. Wil- lier. Farcical comedy, frothy to the degree, but highly amusing. mn and Harris. —“ The Acquittal.” me melodrama calculated to make the spec: or temporarily forgetful of everything else. Comedy.—" My Lady Friends,” with Clif 1 Crawford. Laughable and well acted retical comedy. Cort.—" Abraham Lincoln.” ge picture of momentous ev ry of our country Criterion.—* The Letter of the Law,” with Very interesting and Mr, An inspiring sin the his LIFE and an approximation of costume do not make the thing Greek or suggest the early method of representation. Col- legians, out of a sense of scholarly duty or curiosity, might be expected to be in terested, but why the general public should care for these things, or be ,ex- pected to care for them, is a mystery, and, as a fact, the general public doesn’t care a continental obstruction for them: Anyone who wants to know the Greek drama can get a far better idea of it from reading it in translation than by faultily animent of m effects such as the imagined and with that of the open under the auspices of a university. the plays have a_ problematical but in the theatre hearing it declaimed to an ac dern electric lighting never even ated in the Grecks. chorus sub! from opera. Done educa- tional value, y are nore depressing than interesti tertaining. However, to paraphr saying of a great man who y tirely a Philistine, for those who this sort of thing the “ Medea’ the sort of thing they would like. not en like is just Yet it remains that in this form of presenta- neither nor modern Metcalf. tion it is classic drama. well acted dram of legal injustice. Empire, —* Declassée,” more. Anglo-American esting and well done Eltinge. —“ Breakfast in star Florence Moore, A fun-making st ing the best of a not very & her abilities. Forty-cighth orate ‘forest-fi ture of a west, with a plea victim with Ethel Narry- inter m for The Storm.” Elab- distinctive fea lian Ne Street.- ene the a of the Car k Who's Here,” nd Cleo Mayfield. Fun: main a not how. ing stars the reliance of ad girland-nus Fulton. — ndriac satir tured in well acte ‘A Gaiety, — © Lightnii and its divorces made funny in well played comedy of character. Garrick. —“ Jane Clegg.” Excellent trayal of ‘rather unimportant events in Eng lish middle-class life. Matinces of “ Medea.” See abore. Globe.—" Apple Blossoms.” and dainty of the girl-and-music The lady usingly pie Affair.” enwich Village Costume mosphere, not s to be. —“Three Showers” nm. Notice later. Henry Miller's. The Famous Mrs. Fair,” with Blanche Bates and Mr. Henry Miller Agreeable and well-acted satirical aimed at the American woman who as to be in the public lime-tight Hitpodrome.—" Happy Days.” The. larg- est kind of a proposition in the way of ballet, spectacle and vaudeville. Sophie.” comedy with French at half so wicked or witty as it Anna with simply Hudson, - piction of bs. Knickerbocker. — " Shavings.” comedy with its types drawn from the Cod folks fe Liberty. —“ The Lewis and M music show with fun, Little. —“ Beyond the Horizon." The sloomy ‘side of American farm life depicted with photographic accuracy. Longaere.—* Adam and Eva." The disease of family extravagance laughingly cured with a comedy prescription, Lycenm.—" The Gold Diggers." with Claire. Diverting and well staged study of phases of chorus-girl life in New York Lyric.—"* His Honor, Abe Potash” Mr. Barney Rernard. ‘The senior partner of the famous firm gets into politics witl ing results “Clarence.” An young America in the amusing Delightful Cay Night John E. 1 n unusual a with Ada Girl-and ount of clean with Brothers ¢ cred and Profane teresting sex drama, well played. Park.—Pheasant English domesticity and villainy with genial part for the star Plymouth.—* Richard IIL" with Mr. John Rarrymore. A different but quite worth’ see ing Inction and a most interesting im personation, Princess. revivals of popular light The Wonterful Thing play —* Mr ie Thompson ” with El Adler Notice later nch and Judy—"T by Mr. Fred Jackson, Hole in the Wall,” ama of ‘sex and. crime, structed and well played. 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