Life, 1923-05-03 · page 23 of 40
Life — May 3, 1923 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is a **theater review guide** from *Life* magazine—a staple feature listing Broadway productions with brief critical commentary. The main cartoon illustrates the caption below it: "Five Minutes to Go—An author waiting for his fiftieth birthday in order to write an article on 'How It Feels to Be Fifty.'" The joke satirizes the common practice of milestone-age articles. An anxious middle-aged man sits in his study, surrounded by books and writing materials, waiting to turn 50 so he can write the required reflective piece—suggesting that people mechanically produce such articles on schedule rather than from genuine inspiration. The reviews themselves mention now-obscure Broadway hits (like *Abie's Irish Rose* and *Kiki*) and note topical concerns: *The Old Soak* "carrying on a genial fight against Prohibition," and *So This Is London!* offering "caricatures of British and Americans"—reflecting 1920s cultural preoccupations with Prohibition enforcement and Anglo-American relations.
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More or Less Serious The Adding Machine. Come; American venture into impressionistic’ d you can speak English and ith it. Decidedly worth see- The Cat and the Canary. National.—A limited return engagement of last year's Times Square.—The most ex- a dvertised play in town, dealing with religion in theatrical terms. If Winter Comes. Gaiety.—Cyril Maude \ faithful dramatization of the novel which wever, not literature but old-fashioned rama. Last Warning. Kia hat is murder mystery orphia, Eltinge—Lowell Sherman twitch- s way through one of the dozens of plays vod enough for him. r Gynt. Shubert—Tbsen’s poetic fan- de into something of a play by Joseph aut and the scenery. Morosco—To be reviewed next Maxine Elliott’s—A body-blow to respectable traditions, with Jeanne s superb as the prostitute who “nearly good. Romeo and Juliet. Henry Miller’s—Jane Cowl ina delightful characterization of Shakespeare's lovingest heroine. Seventh Heaven, Booth.—Acting. Uptown West. Bijou.—To be reviewed ‘Murder mys- la Whispering Wires. Broadhurst—Murder by telephone. Within Four Walls, Selwyn.—To be re- viewed next week. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic.—Comic post- care As You Like It, Forty-Fourth St—To be reviewed next week. Barnum Was. Right, scended from “Seven K —Farce_ de- and “The Tav- er The Comedian. Lyceum.—Lionel Atwill in an actor pla: The Devil's Disciple. Garrick.—To be re- viewed next week, The Enchanted Cottage. Rit Half Pi- wero and half fancy. The fanc The Exile. George M. viewed in this issue. Give and Take. Forty-Ninth St—Bur- lesque-wheel sociology. Icebound. Sam h in « medium-brown New England play. Kiki. Belasco—The last week, and we sink exhausted from trying to say something shout it each week since November 29th, The Laughing Lady. Barrsmore in—what does Mary the 3rd. Thirty marriage heresy. ton of the Movies. Cort.—Glenn Hunter as just about the most engaging hero of the season, The Old Soak. Plymouth—Still carrying on_a genial fight against Prohibition. Papa Joe. Nora Bayes.—Well,— Polly Preferred. Little.—Entertaining movie spoofing. Secrets. Fulton.—Margaret Lawrence in bearable sentimentality, So This Is London! Hudson.—Caricatures of British and Americans. and I. Beimont.—Very snappy and gentlemanly conversation, very well done. Zander the Great. Empire—Alice Brady in a play about the Great Open Spaces where men are bootleggers. Alice Brady is worth foing to see. Harris.—Good acting sin Longacre.—Ethel matter? inth St.—Pleasant Owing to the time it takes to print Lr t newspapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. Jack and Jill. been called in since something Lady Butterfly. Nellie Kelly. en BOX OFFICE Eye and Ear Entertainment Barnum and Bail Square Garden—Rev Caroline. AAmbassador.—Nice not much else. Cinders. Dresden.—Rather slow. The Clinging Vine. — Knickerbocker.— Peggy Wood in good entertainment. The Dancing Girl. Minter Garden.—Just the same, with perhaps a few more laughs and Benny Leonard Elsie. landerbilt—Let's see-— The Gingham Girl. Earl Carroll.—Still tripping quietly along Go-Go. Daly’s.—F: _ How Come? Apollo—Negro show which is not another “Shuflle Along.” music but Five Minutes to Go An author waiting for his fiftieth birthday in order to write an article on “How It Feels to Be Fifty.” Little Cohan show. should verify from the daily Vial Guide | Glo! we Astor. Music Box Revue. sive and, thanks to Bobby Clarl Irene and Ma: in every Sally, has played except the Town popular as ever. Up She Goes. Wildfiower. hum, Ziegfeld Follies. what you expect. agit angie Hall Playhou Casino.—Musiec that you can N Fields has Tt needed berty.—A_ typical Box.—Expen at wn now and seems to be as Amsterdam.—Just UTM comicbooks.com