Life, 1922-02-23 · page 21 of 34
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This cartoon illustrates the title play reviewed on the page—a serious drama about the aftermath of World War I and inherited mental illness. The image shows two figures in an emotionally fraught moment: a man holding up a theatrical mask (suggesting performance, artifice, or hidden identity) while a woman looks away in distress. The cartoon captures the play's central tension: the conflict between appearance and reality, duty and desire. The mask likely represents either the man's attempt to conceal his condition or the societal pretense that must be maintained around such uncomfortable topics as hereditary insanity and divorce—subjects the review identifies as the play's "powerful problem." The cartoonist (signed "Frueh") uses this simple, expressive imagery to convey the psychological and emotional complexity that makes this a "problem play" rather than light entertainment, distinguishing it from the comedies and musical reviews listed on the same page.
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Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should verify from the daily news- papers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. More or Less Serious istie. Vanderbilt—A splendi Pauline Lord in Eugene O'Ne rama. Anna C prmance ater-frot Morosco—This melodrama should ised with the “Chauve Souris” at Ninth Str and there is not the ger that it will be. A Bill of Divorcement. Times Square.—Her- itary inuiity and the back-wash of the war ade int) a powerful problem play. Knickerbocker—One of snorting melodramas you Drummond. t little rij Bulldo; and the Canary. National—To be xt week. The C Thirty-Ninth Street.—The, pathology of sex. straight The D. Plymouth.—An exceedingly in- resting of eight people marooned in a loon dying a flood. uge. Drifting Playhouse.—Chinese junk. He Who Gets Slapped. bi a clown, beautifully iuild Fulton.—The tragedy done by the Theatre Hudson.—The second offering in 1's repertory. To be reviewed next The Law Breaker. Booth.—Reviewed in this sue Lawful Larceny. Republic.—An interesting if ot Exar important contribution to our nation- 1 jur lence. The National Anthem, Henry Miller's, — Jaurette Taylor in a little sermon against jazz Ind g The Nest. Forty-Eighth Street—To be re- ewed next week, The Pigeon. Greenwic® Village.—Galsworthy’s jentle ploy revived. The White Peacock. Comedy.—Olga Petrova ) a play written by herself. She is a good tress. omedy and Things Like That Cort.—Very Wallace Eddinger and Mary the cast. aptain Applejack. nice enter- ndeed. }-he Crarina. Empire—Doris Keane in a comedy about Catherine of Russia. Eltinge-—Some people, is stuff funny. Enough others make his stuff funny. Enough others make & proposition for Avery Hopwood to Demi-Virgin. Dover Road. Bijou.—Delightful English Charles Cherry playing the lead. Frasee—American conversation and alk cleverly satirized. irst Year. Little—Frank Craven's slice life still proving its popularity. Grand Duke. nel Atwill, Lyceum.—French vichy, Just Married. Nora Bayes.—What you would pect a honeymoon farce to be, except that it is ally funny in spots. in a remarkable an back-stage Kiki. Belasco.—Lenore Ulri character-sketch dealing with Pa life. Madame Pierre. Ritz.—To be reviewed later. The Mountain Man. Maxine Elliott a little play with some excellent acting by Blackmer. Six-Cylinder Love. Sam H. Harris—Ernest Truex and June Walker in an automobile which nearly wrecks a suburb amid roars of laughter. Thank You. Longacre.—More pay for par- sons advocated in a smoothly running and amus ing play. To the Ladies. later. Liberty—To be reviewed Eye and Ear Entertainment Ambassador—A score con- Blossom Time. taining real music. The Blue Kitten. Selw) a musical comedy is like? Joseph Cawthorn is in it. The Blushing Bride. Astor.—Pretty thin. Bombo. Fifty-Ninth Street.—Al Jolson, that’s all. Chauve Souris. in this issue. Elsie Janis and Her Gang. Gaiety week of this entertaining program by the table imitator and her company of ex-service men. .—You know what Well, here’s another. Forty-Ninth Street.—Reviewed Frank Fay’s Fables. Park.—Another intimate revue in, wl h the author does hi: ting in the aisle. You don’t have to see it unless you want Get Together. Hippodrome.—Big and pl Good Morning Dearie. good show. Globe-—An all-around music and nder Walk,” Marjolaine. Broadhurst.—Pretty sanitary fun, made over from with Peggy Wood in the lead. The Music Box Revue. Music Box.—You can get a seat by spring if you start now The Perfect Fool. George M Wynn defying all laws of gravity. Cohan's.—Ed Pins and Needles. vue containing some not so amusing. Shubert—An English re- amusing things and some Sally. N 4msterdam.—As we remember it, Marilyn Miller and Leon Errcl are in it Shuffle Along. Sixty-Third Street—A dy namic entertainment by legro singers dancers. Tangerine. Casino.—Julia Sanderson and Richard Carle in a perfectly agreeable show. Up in the Clouds. Forty-Fourth Not much fuss about it, but it points, Street.— has its ,good “A Bill of Divorcement” Allan Pollock Janet Beecher comicbooks.com