Life — October 7, 1920 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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the stage settings were made in the days of rubberoid mahogany, when interior decorators, finding themselves with unoc- cupied space on the walls of a room, filled it with a tasty design of Scotch plaid. Surely the speaking stage can do better for Miss Brady than “ Anna Ascends.” Robert C. Benchley ing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should verify from the daily news- fapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. Belasco.—* One.” Reviewed in this issue. Relmon| Little Miss Charity.” A nice little musical comedy. Bijou. —“ The Charm School.” How a young man would run a_ girls’ boarding school. You know already, but it is enter- taining to see it acted. Boo! Happy-Go-Lucky.” A hilarious cockney play, made notable by the Samuel Stillbottle of O. P. Heggie. Broadhurst—*" The Guest of Honor. viewed in this issue. Casino.— Honey Dew.” to a mediocre book. Central. —* Poor Little Ritz Girl.” A musical comedy with lots of very loud jokes. Century.—" Mecea.” George M. Cohan —* The Tavern. Re- Zimbalist music ‘otice later. Notice han and Harris—" Weleon Propaganda on a“ to body, Well ac Comedy.—“ The Bad Man.” Holbrook Blinn in’ the role of a charming Mexican bandit. Cort m Jam Jems.” Notice later. Eltinge. —“ Ladies’ Night.” A_ Turkish bath as the scene for just about what you would expect. Empire—" Call the Doctor.” Pleasantly spoken comedy dialogue, slightly worn with age. Forty-eighth Street. — “ Opportunity. Showing what Wall Street will do for a n, his wife and his money. azee.—" The Woman of Bronze.” Mar- garet Anglin in an emotional drama, for which the author of the drama may be very grateful Fulton — Enter, Madame.” A light come- dy of real merit, acted as it should be acted 'y.—" Lightnin’.” Now in its third “The Treasure.” Notice later. reenwich Village,—" Three Live Ghosts.” Notice later. Hippodrome.—" Good Times.” g0 wrong unless you are blind. Knickerbocker—" The Sweetheart Shop.” Tuneful music Liberty.—“ The Night Boat.” Last year's musical-comedy success, still churning ahead. Little—“ Marry the Poor Girl.” Notice later. You can’t Longacre-—" Pitter-Patter.” Lyceum.—" The Gold Diggers.” Ina Claire in a highly successful comedy of chorus-gitl fe Notice later. * GEORGE ARLISS IN Maxine Elliott's—“ Spanish Love.” Or dinary love which has been allowed to fer ent. Morosco.—" The Bat.” En crime to last an ordinary man a week condensed into one memorable evening. Nora Bayes.—" Don't Tell.” Playhouse-—" Anna Ascends.” in this issue. Plymouth.—" Little Old New York.” tume play of 1810, Sweet but amusing. tice later. Reviewed Princess.— Blue Bonnet.” Ernest Truex in a novelty cowboy part, much better than the play Punch and Judy. ferchants of Venus.” Notice later. “ POLDEK! the an Lady of dream of opium: ‘cpublic, —" The norately staged Tickle Me.” Frank girls and music. Greenwich \V F to look at, but not so much to Tinne Lies.” Beautiful listen to. Thirty-ninth Best Thing Times later Vanderbilt. —“ Irene.” A dainty musical comedy which looks good for another twe five years. Winter Garden Notice later. Street.—*“ the Next Trish trov Square. —“ The Mirage.” Notice Broadway Brevities comicbooks.com