Life — May 24, 1923 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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BOX OFFICE 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. More or Less Serious The Adding Machine. Comedy—A viv- id and highly modern impression of what happens to a bookkeeper both before and after he dies. The Apache. Punch and Judy—To be reviewed next week. ; The Cat and the Canary. National— Terrific adventures in a_hatinted house. The Ethiopian Art Theatre. Frazee— To be reviewed next_week. ae The Fool. Times Square—A playwright’s idea of how Christ would act in the face of modern problems. For Value Received. Longacre—To be reviewed next week. i . Moscow Art Theatre. Fifty-Ninth St— Return engagement of two weeks of Rus- sia's remarkable aggregation of actors. Peer Gynt. Shubert—Joseph Schildkraut as _Ibsen’s poetic and uneasy hero, Rain. Maxine Elliott’s—A play that takes you out of your seat and. shakes you, whether you like it or not. Jeanne Eagels as the superb prostitute. : Romeo and Juliet. Henry Miller’s— Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters putting Shake- speare’s little love story on the map. Seventh Heaven. Booth—Acting by Hel- en. Menken. Uptown | West. Bijow—A contribution to. the Japanese problem. Q The Wasp. Selwyn—By rights, this melo- drama ought to be bunched with the comedies. Whispering Wires. Broadhurst—Ali about a new way to kill people. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Repullic—A year old this week, in spite of all we could do. 1 Aren't We All? Gaiety—To be reviewed later. Barnum Was Right. George M. Co- han’s—Rough-and-tumble farce. The Comedi Belasco—Lionel Atwill showing how an actor acts, The Devil's Disciple. Garrickh—Shaw for one delightful act. The Enchanted Cottage. Ritz—Partly Pinero at his worst and partly very nice whimsy or whatever it is you call it when the impossible happens. Give and Take. Forty-Ninth St—Ex- tra-heavy comedy. Icebound. Sam H. Harris—A New Eng- land story helped out by very good act- ing. The Love Habit. Princess—French farce in its most palatable form. Mary the 3rd. Thirty-Ninth St.—Rachel Crothers showing that you can say radical things about marriage without offending even Grandma. Merton of the Movies. Cort—Comedy that affects the heart as played by Glenn Hunter. The Mountebank. this issue. The Old Soak. Plymouth—Don Mar- quis’ lovable souse in a play that you have Probably seen many times before under other names. “Polly Preferred. Littlh—Amusing movie kidding. Pride. Morosco—Reviewed in this issue. So This Is London! Hudson—Loud- pa satire on English and Americans. ery popular. Sweet Neli of Old Drury. Forty-Eighth St—To be reviewed next week. Lyceum—Reviewed in You and I. Belmont—Smart and very respectable Westchester comedy. | Zander the Great. Empire—Alice Brady in’an entertaining Western round-up. Eye and Ear Entertainment Bombo. Winter weeks of Al Jolson. Caroline. Ambassador—For those who look for nothing but music. The Clinging Vine. Knickerbocker— Peggy Wood's voice and other pleasing fea tures, Dew Drop Inn. Astor—To be reviewed later. _ The Gingham Girl. in its way. Garden—Just a few Central—AN_ right Go-Go. Daly’s—Slightly cheap but keeps you awake. How Come? Apollo—Proving that all Negro shows aren’t necessarily good. Jack and Jill. Globe—An elaborate show which may “be “better than it was before Lew. Fields was called in. Little Nellie Kelly. Liberty—One of those Cohan. whirlwinds. The Music Box Revue. Expensive and good. Sally, Irene and Mary. you might call “popular.” Up She Goes. Playhouse—Very pleas- ant indeed. Wildflower. Casino—Just about as good music as you will hear in town. Ziegfeld Fol! Yew Amsterdam—Al- most a year old and still running on its own power. Music Box— Century—What In Strictest Confidence