Life, 1922-09-28 · page 21 of 36
Life — September 28, 1922 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a theater guide from *Life* magazine listing Broadway shows with brief reviews. The main illustration depicts "The Seventh Sutherland Sister" bobbing her hair—a significant social moment captured in satire. The Sutherland Sisters were a famous Victorian-era performing group known for their extraordinarily long hair, which they promoted as a beauty ideal through their own hair tonic business. By the 1920s, the "bob" (short haircut) represented modern women rejecting Victorian conventions—a major cultural flashpoint of the era. The cartoon shows an older woman (representing the traditional Sutherland Sister aesthetic) observing a younger woman with bobbed hair in a modern interior, suggesting generational conflict over femininity and modernity. The caption labels this "Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry"—likely ironic, treating hair fashion as seriously as industrial leadership. The satire mocks both outdated beauty standards and the dramatic shock value of the bob to conservative society.
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Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should verify from the daily newspapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. Why Men Leave Home. Morosco.—Re- The Lady in Ermine. More or Less Serious viewed in t issue. To be reviewed later. The Cat and the Canary. National.—Six ‘i Br h — il i thrill to the square inch when the madman WHE Oste Lane: Broadhwat—Terrihle: Molly Darling. Liberty. ning’s entertainment, with Jack Donahue furnishing starts reaming through the house. Eye and Ear Entertainment the comedy Orange Blossoms. Fulton —To be re viewed next week. East of Suez, Eltinge.—To be reviewed later Better Times. Hippodrome.—-E Endless Chain. George M. Cohan’s— that a Hippodrome show should hi Mergaret Lawrence in a conventicnal drama Blossom Time. mbassadcr.—Second year Passing Show of 1922. Iinter Garden with a moral and everything. ef this musical treat, showing that a good To be reviewed next week -Triangle score does count. Sally, Irene and Mary. Casine.—Con handled Chauve-Souris. Century Roaf.—Russian taining the regular’ elements of popularity, a in a pleasant bill. with Eddie Dowling in. addition. He Who Gets Slapped. Garrick.—An im- Daffy Dill. Apollo.—Frank Tinney hack scahale 6t10%2, Gls Tie bedi ikinw pressive- presentation of Andreyev’s tragedy ain, in sentimental mood. ndals 922. Globe © be " - A . orge White has produced yet of the cireus. The Earl Carroll.—A nice little Greenwich Village Follies. Shubert.—To Ziegfeld’s Folli he reviewed next week course, there's alway erything Fools Errant. Maxine Elliott’. cemplications in the grand mannet by an excellent cast. vaudeville art Loyalties. Gaiety.—To be reviewed later. Sue, Dear. Bijou.—Another mus’cal comedy The Monster. Thirty-Ninth St—Horror approaching comedy as a limit. Imsterdam.—Ot 1 Rogers. Rose Bernd. Longacre.—To be reviewed late La Tendresse. Empire.—To be reviewed late Whispering Wires, Forty.Ninth St—In vus murdering. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic.—Incredibly obvious comedy, incredibly successful. The Awful Truth. Henry Miller's.—To b. reviewed later. Banco. Rits.—To be reviewed later. Captain Applejack. Cort.—Wallace Eddin and Mary Nash in highly amusing bur ue adventure, Dreams for Sale. Playhouse—To be re viewed later. East Side—West Side. Nora Bay, Trevor out of place in N “Poeo'-My-Heart” series. The Exeiters. Times Square—To be re- viewed later. Her Temporary Husband. Frazec.—Heavy- handed farce comedy of the old school. Hunky Dory. Klaw.—Genuine Scotch im portation, I's a Boy. Sam H. Harris—To be re ed later. Kempy. Belmont. into a logical heir to all-town home-life he First Year's” K Belesco,—Lenore Ulric in a startling cterizaticn of a lively cocotte, The Old Soak. Plymouth.—Don Marquis’s ible bum in a stereotyped setting. Partners Again. Selwyn.—The welcome re- «f Potash and Perlmutter. The Plot Thickens. Rooth.—Reviewed in < issue. A Serpent's Tooth. Little.—Marie Tempest k again in a play which doesn’t matter, Shore Leave. Lyceum.—Frances Starr in culation New England sea-coast surround So This Is London! Hudson.—Showing vat Englishmen and Americans are equally npossible. ue Torch Bearers. Vanderbilt.—Delicious INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN GENERALS OF INDUSTRY ‘tire aimed at amateur theatricals. The sea- son's h-water mark so far. No. 46. The Seventh Sutherland Sister Bobs Her Hair. comicbooks.com