Life, 1923-04-12 · page 23 of 40
Life — April 12, 1923 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This is a theater review page from Life magazine's "Confidential Guide" to Broadway productions. The left column lists plays categorized as "More or Less Serious" and "Comedy and Things Like That," with brief critical assessments. The cartoon below depicts an absurdist scenario captioned "Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry, No. 67: Successful termination of Mr. Bixby's quest for a fountain of shoe polish." It shows a figure discovering a natural spring in a desert landscape, apparently having mistaken it for shoe polish—a satirical jab at American industrial entrepreneurs pursuing frivolous or misguided commercial ventures. The humor relies on the series title "Generals of Industry," mock-elevating businessmen as military figures while depicting them engaged in ridiculous quests, reflecting early 20th-century skepticism toward corporate ambitions and commercialism.
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RATATAT ANN ATT 1a nfident { ‘BOX OFFICE. 0 CO a} 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. . - k id Jill. Globe.—Revis i is More or Less Serious Eye and Ear Entertainment sss *4 Jit Glebe—Reviewed in thi | Phe Adding Machine. Garrick.—Reviewed Better Times. Hippodrome.—Last week. Lady Butterfly. Astor.—Not much. | fe aoe ; eee ‘ The Eady in Ermine. Century.—Good . Caroline. Ambassador.—Maybe the music staph couteopera nathema, Forty-Eighth St—To be re- will make up to you for what the book lacks, ““?” opere ‘ 5 1 later. ue Chasing Gis, Reueaesiseaay Wes Little Nellie Kelly. Liberty.—Fast dancing. The Fool. Times Square——The Founder of The Dancing Girl. Winter Garden.— Music Box Revu Music Box.—Bobby Christian Church in street clothes. Stagy Benny Leonard’ and others in something a Clark very funny in a gorgeous setting. earnest. Tele bee thea nana Sally; Heene and Mary. Forty-Foxrth St.— The: Ged 08 Venzoance., Able Elsie. Vanderbilt—To be reviewed later. "Up She Goes. Fe nance by Rudolph Schildkraut. The Gingham Girl. Earl Carroll_—All right. Wildflower. “Casino Delightful site The Guilty One. Selwyn.—To be reviewed Go-Go. Daly’s.—Reviewed in this issue. Ziegfeld Follies, New Amsterdom.—You t week, Irene. Fifty-Ninth St—Back again. know. . If Winter Comes, Gaicty.—To be reviewed he Love Child. George M. Cohan’s.—Sid- Blackmer in French family troubles. Morphia, Eltinge.—Lowell Sherman com- nising by acting a bad part well. Peer Gynt. Shubert—The best that could done for Ibsen’s poem-play, thanks to the atre Guild and Joseph Schildkraut. Rain. Maxine Elliott's. ng plays, with Jeanne | times in the same place Romeo and Juliet. Henry Miller’s.—Jane Cowl bringing new life to the réle of Juliet. Seventh Heaven. Bosth.—Heavy acting in t play. Wasp. Morosco.—To be reviewed next T A_ thunder-storm els striking sev- qT i Whispering Wires. Broadhurst—Murder stery with a trick solution. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic.—One of the rld’s worst and most popular comedies. Anything Might Happen. Comedy.—Show- what a good cast can do. Barnum Was Right. Fr om of “The Tavern,” 1 The Comedian. Lyceum istomary back-stage play. he Enchanted Cottage. Rits.—To be re- cd next week. This year’s ing something. nel Atwill in Give and Take. Forty-) -—Twelve- fun, Icebound. Sam H. Harris.—Well-acted ltown stuff. Kiki. Belasco.—It’s been so long since we it that all we remember is Lenore Ulric. The Laughing Lady. Longacre.—Ethel ymore in 1890 drawing-room banter. The Love Habit. Bijou.—Smooth-running French farce. ary the 3rd. Thirty ou-ly liberal ideas on Merton of the Movies. Cort.—Genuinely moving comedy, with Glenn Hunter doing most of the moving. Che Old Soak. Plymouth.—Harry Beres- ford as Don Marquis’ quaint old souse. Papa Joe, Princess.—You will never re- gre not Seeing it. Polly Preferred. Little—Funny movie talk. Secrets. Fulton.—Margaret Lawrence makes ever the shooting bearable. So This Is London! Hudson.—English- INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN GENERALS OF INDUSTRY American caricatures. plies rags 5 Ves ana tint (Dalal = Eisasanly: esecssl No. 67. Successful termination of Mr. Bixby’s quest for a fountain of | talk, well done. shoe polish. St.—Innocu- comicbooks.com