Life — December 9, 1920 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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whole lot better than 1 think he was to give anyone who saw him a right to sniff at Ben-Ami. And a word must be said for Pauline Lord, who played the errant wife. She is the most natural actress on record in this department. She is to the artificial players who declaim on our stage what Miss Lulu Bett is to the artificial books which jam our libraries. She is so real that at times she seems to be a poor actress, and that is just about as high as you can go, ND now we come back to earth. Oh, ‘way, ‘way back! “Thy Name Is Woman" is a drama about Spain and smuggling and a nice little dirk nestling between the heroine's ribs at the final curtain, Mary Nash and José Ruben are the two members of the acting profession in a cast of four, and they are assisted by a couple of friends who oblige for the evening in the other two roles. ~LIFE- new Apollo Theatre was opened with a musical comedy called “ Jim- in which Frances White is starred. (Suggestion for a title for the opening play in our next new theatre: “ Jacks or Better.”) As is becoming customary in Mr. Arthur Hammerstein's productions, the chorus is made up of young ladies who seem to have been picked for their intel- ligence as well as for their spectacular effects. As in “Tickle Me,” they sing and act well and look like real people. And Herbert Stothart has given them some very pleasing and old-fashioned music to sing. Miss White is there, and you either like her or you don’t. have a decided majority in her favor, and her brace of children songs ought to win over several votes from the opposition. Mr. Ben Welch, without his accustomed gefillte-fish make-up, is genial and amus- ing when left to his own resources. The comedy lines and touches are simply terrible. Robert C. Benchle She seems, however, to sentimental (CONFIDES San Gulp ‘Sa an Sa ap ae a a Owing to the time it takes to print Live, readers should verify from the daily news: fapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. More or Less Serious 7 Frances Starr as twin sisters who have only one soul between them. Just about two steps farther than spiritualistic drama can go and still be ef- fective. Bijo “The Skin Game.” Interest and well acted pla: y Isworthy dealing with the struggle between aristocracy and the nouveau riche. If this isn't enough, you may detect a little allegory about the war by looking sharply. However you take it, it is one of the few real plays in town. Frazee. The Woman of Bronze.” Mar- garet Anglin in a powerful emotional role which carries the rest of a rather ordinary triangle drama along with her to the heights. Garrick.—" Heartbreak House.” Reviewed in this issue. Greenwich Village.—“ Samson and lilah.” Reviewed in this issue. Maxine Elliott's. —“ Spanish Lov: A colorful presentation of passion below the Pyrenees, including such old favorites as jealous rage, catch-as-catch-can loving, and fancy dancing. Morosco.— The Bat.” The finest display of crime in the city, and until the final cur- tain you have no more idea who did it than the New York Police Department would have. Playhouse —* Thy Name Is Woman.” Re- viewed in this issue. Times Square-—" The Mirage.” Florence Reed doing all she can with a part several dozen plays old, showing how hard it is for a girl to go wrong in New York and still keep the old beau in Erie, Pa. De- Comedy and Things Like That Belmont. —“ French Leave.” Mr. and Mrs. Coburn in a little something warmed over from the war, Booth—* The Prince and the Pauper.” Good for the holidays whether you go to school or not. William Faversham in splen- did form. Broadhurst.—“ When We To be reviewed next week. George M. Cohan. —“T' travesty on romantic drama such as has never been done before, mixing all the time- worn lines, characters and situations up into a mad melange, in which Arnold Daly is the leading lunatic. The event of a life- time. Cohan and Harris. —“ Welcome, Stran- ger.” Showing that race-prejudice is not always to the swift when the issue is be tween a Jewish merchant and a Yankce town. Not particularly dignified but inter- esting. Comedy.—“ The Bad Man.” Holbrook Blinn as a Mexican bandit who has some delightful ideas about America, marri. and private property, which he promulgates by means of a large gun. npire.—" Call the Doctor.” A conven- tional comedy about mari! oubles with a much better 3. Eltinge. — 7 A. Turkish bath as the scene for as rough a piece of five-ton farce as you could have desired in your palmiest days of adolescence. Strictly for minds in the 8-B class, and therefore crowded every night. Forty-eighth Street—" The Broken Wing. To be reviewed next week. Fulton Enter Madame.” A delightfully written and cleverly acted light comedy dealing with the home-life of a tempera- mental opera singer. Still leads the field in its class. Are Young.” Tavern.” A 1101 Gaiety. —" Lightnin’.” To be reviewed y Miller, —“ Just Suppose.” Senti- I little play based on a visiting Prince falling in love with a Virginia Nicely done and on the whole agreeable. Hudson, —“ The Meanest Man in the World.” Business comedy containing snappy fire dialogue with George M. Cohan as chief gunner. Little—" The First Year.” home-life made into a hila which everybody likes. Fi it and plays the lead. The Gold Diggers.” Ina ly successful comedy dealing with how the other half of the chorus lives. Nora Bayes.—" Three Live Ghosts.” The fortunes of three returning soldiers handled in an amusing manner. Park—" Bab.” Helen deb just home from boarding-school, bring- ing Mary Roberts Rinehart's literary tion to life with great success. Plymouth —“ Little Old New York.” Man hattan days of 1810 reproduced entertain ingly by means of appropriate costumes, his torical names and Miss Genevieve Tobin Punch and Judy.—" Rollo’s Wild Oat.” To be reviewed next week. Republic.—* Daddy Dumplins.” viewed next week Thirty-ninth Str The Y ters.” To be reviewed next week. very Everybody's ously funny play Craven wrote Hayes as a sub To be Eye and Ear Entertainment Apollo, —“ issue. Astor —“ Kissing at any rate, clean. Casino.—* Honeydew.” score well sung a Central. —" A he justly famous Alice Delysia as the most spectacular fea ture in a spectacle of elaborate beauty Century. —" Mecca.” A_ stage constantly full of color, dancing, singing and expensive properties. Century Roof. —“ The Century Midn Revue” at 11:30. Eating and dancing at almost any time after dark. Cort—" Hello, Lester!” Néeo“ Jim J Jems.” Only the name has been chang: Globe. —“ Tip-Top. red Stone and a talented company of singers, dancers anc saxophone players in just about as pleasant an entertainment as you could ask for. Hippodrow ood Times.” Practically everything in the world comes on the here twice a day Knickerbocke and Jimmie.” Reviewed in this Tim Pleasant and, Efrem Zimbalist’s nd danced stage —" Mary.” Tuneful. s constant action carrying a ple story along at an unbelievable pace Liberty." The Half-Moon." Good music and excellent dancing. Joseph Cawthorne making the most of a mediocre book Longacre." Pitter-Patter.” Ernest Truex has recently joined this musical version of “Caught in the Rain,” much to its advan tage New Amsterdam.—" Witchy Koo.” Ray- mond Hitchcock, Julia Sanderson and G. P. Huntley proving that you don’t have to have very much that is new to get away with it nowadays. 2. —“ Tickle Me.” ank Tinney, surrounded by good lines, tuneful music superior chorus girls. Shubert, —“* Greenwich A gorgeous presentation of very little ters. Savoy and Brennan furnish coarse but hearty laughter Vanderbilt. —" Irene.” with excellent music, the bi the past two seasons. Winter Garden.—* Broadway Bert Willams in bad company Zieufeld Midnight Frolic. ing, watching: take your them all. Dainty comedy Brevities.” ting, dane choice or comicbooks.com