Life, 1922-11-23 · page 21 of 36
Life — November 23, 1922 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **theater review page** from Life magazine, listing Broadway productions with brief critical commentary. The cartoons and illustrations are secondary to the main content. The large cartoon depicts **labor conflict or industrial chaos**: workers and machinery in apparent disarray, with explosions and confusion. This likely relates to reviews of plays about social themes—specifically "R.U.R." (a Czech play about robots and industrial conditions) and "The World We Live In," both noted as satirizing modern industry and labor. The smaller cartoon at bottom shows characters labeled "Glory!" appearing to celebrate or marvel at something, possibly referencing theatrical spectacle or "tons of money on display" (as noted in the Music Box Revue review). The page reflects post-WWI American theater's engagement with contemporary issues: Prohibition ("The Old Soak"), divorce ("The Awful Truth"), and industrial modernization. The reviews are witty and dismissive toward some productions (Abie's Irish Rose: "Pretty bad"), revealing the era's theatrical tastes and social preoccupations.
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More or Less Serious The Cat and the Canary. National.—An enjoyable death from fright. East of Suez. Eltinge—Florence Reed registering high seduction power in a fervid drama of the East. The Fool. Times Square—A modern ap- plication of Christ's doctrines, done in terms of the theatre. Hamlet. Sam H. Harris—To be reviewed later. Hospitality. Forty-Eighth St—To be re- viewed later. The Last Warning. Kiaw.—A thrilling mystery show such as you have never seen before | The Love Child. George M. Cohan's— To be reviewed later. Loyalties. Gaicty.—Conflicting allegiances made into an absorbing play, well acted. Rain. Maxine Elliott’s—To be reviewed next week. Rose Bernd. Longacre. — tauptmann’s peasant tragedy, giving Ethel Barrymore a new held which she’ enters with distinction. R._U. R, Frazee—Extremely _interestin; ciful’ satire on industrial conditions an kind in general. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Princess.—Reviewed in this issue. To Love. Bijou.—The customary French triangle probless solved more satisfactorily than usual by the dialectic method. Let Grace George equal A, B, and Robert Warwick C. Whispering Wires. Forty-Ninth St, — Showing how to kill your friends over’ the telephone. The World We Live In. Fifty-Ninth St. —Reviewed in this issue. Norman Trevor Eye and Ear Entertainment weer Times. Hippodrome.—Good and ig. Blossom Time. Century.—Proving by its success. that good music can still get a hearing. Chauve-Souris. Century Roof.—The third and best bill of Russian de luxe vaudeville. The Gingham Girl. nice little show. Earl Carroll.—Just a Greenwich Village Follies. Shubert.— Magnificent spectacle, with comedy by Savoy and Brennan and once in a while Jack Haz- ard. TheLadyinErmine. Ambassador.—Wilda Bennett in elaborate musical comedy. Little Nellie Kelly. Liberty—To be re- viewed later. Music Box Revue. Music Box—Tons of money on display. ie_OFanee Blossoms, Fulton.—High class at least. Passing Show. Winter Garden.—Three guesses as to what it is like. Sally, Irene and Mary. Casino.—Eddie ed in a show that was sure to be popular. giSPringtime of Youth. Broadhurst. —Fifty- ty. 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. Up She Goes. Playhouse.—To be reviewed next week. The Yankee Princess. Knickerbocker.— Imported music of a superior grade. Ziegfeld Follies. New Amsterdam.—Will Rogers makes up for a lot of waiting, Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic.—Pretty bad. The Awful Truth. Henry Miller—Ina Claire and Bruce McRae in agreeable comedy on divorce. Banco. Ritz.—French gambling and other things made dainty and amusing by Clare Kummer with the aid of Lola Fisher and Alfred Lunt. The Bootleggers. ‘inth St.—To be Thirty reviewed later. The Forty-Niners. Punch and Judy.— Reviewed in this issue. Kiki. Belasco——Lenore Ulric in a splendid character sketch of a Parisian chorus girl. The Lucky One. viewed later. Garrick.—To be re- Merton of the Movies. Cort.—To be re- viewed later. The Old Soak. Plymouth.—The case against Prohibition in the hands of Don Mar- quis’s dear old bum. Shore Leave. Lyceum.—Frances Starr in medium boiled New England play. So This is London! Hudson.—Exagger- ated Americanisms and Anglicisms in. the manner of the funny papers. The Torch Bearers. Vanderbilt.—Satire on the Little Theatre movement which will delight everyone who has suffered from it. Men Leave Home. Morosco.— Regulation bed-room comedy, with a. little sermonizing on the bed-side, \whiddygs : sl, Pooty Niftik, Sitka? INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN GENERALS OF INDUSTRY No. 52. Messrs. Barney and Berry open up a new sales territory. comicbooks.com