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This page is a theater review guide listing Broadway productions currently running. The large architectural illustration depicts the interior of a grand cathedral or theater, emphasizing the scale and grandeur of theatrical venues of the era. The reviews are organized by category: "More or Less Serious" dramas, "Comedy and Things Like That," and "Eye and Ear Entertainment" (musicals and revues). The tone is witty and dismissive—critics describe plays with backhanded compliments ("excellent burlesque, meant seriously") and sardonic brevity. Notable entries include *Abie's Irish Rose* (called "the country's most popular comedy, constituting a reflection on either this decade or the country") and *The Good Old Days*, an "Anti-Prohibition farce which convinces you that Prohibition must be right"—suggesting the reviewer's skepticism about both the play's quality and contemporary temperance laws. The caption below the cathedral asks: "REMEMBER THE LENGTH OF THE CHURCH AISLE?"—likely a theatrical in-joke about dramatic pacing or romantic plot resolutions.

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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. More or Less Serious The Breaking Point. K/aw—It will be all right if you don’t see it. Casanova. Empire—To be reviewed next week. Chains. issue. Children of the Moon. fective insanity propaganda. The Crooked Square. Hudson—Excel- lent burlesque, meant seriously. Cyrano de Bergerac. National—To be reviewed later. Grand Guignol. later. Plymouth—To be later. The Lullaby. Knickerbocket—Fiorence Reed as just about as bad a woman as you ever saw, and very vivid, too. Playhouse—Reviewed in this Comedy—Ef- Frolic—To be reviewed reviewed The Player Queen and The Shewing Up. of Blanco. Posnet. reviewed later. Rain. Maxine _Elliott’s—Jeanne_Eagels in the strongest of last season’s plays. Red Light Annie. Morosco—Good, solid crime melodrama, with cocaine fixings. Seventh Heaven. Booth—Lots of Paris- ian atmosphere and acting. The Shame Woman. Greenwich Village —To be reviewed later, Tarnish. Belmont—To be next. week. White Desert. Princess—To be reviewed later. The Woman on the Jury. Eltinge—What happens when woman’s intuition meets cir- cumstantial evidence. Zeno. Forty-Eighth St.—Everything for the melodrama shopper. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republi country’s most popular comedy, ing a reflection on either this d or the country. Aren't We All? Gaicty—Cyril_ Maude bounding through a pleasant bit of British hilarity. The Changelings. Henry Miller’s—An excellent cast, including Henry Miller, Ruth Chatterton, Blanche Bates and Laura’ Hope Crews, in an intelligent comedy Chicken Feed. — Little—Showing arted. —You know nd_ Marlowe. Forty-Ninth St. Neighborhood—To be reviewed what Shakespeare. For All of Us. reviewed later. Forbidden. week. The Good Old Days. Broadhurst—Anti- Prohibition farce which convinces you that Prohibition must be right. _ In Love with Love. Rits—Very pleasant indeed, what with Lynn Fontanne and her suitors. A Lesson in Love. Thirty-Ninth St— Emily Stevens and William Faversham in something worth seeing. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Belasco— Mrs. Fiske in a comedy which is satis- factory inasmuch as*it gives her a chance to be Mrs. Fiske. Merton of the Movies. Cort—Glenn Hunter as the extremely moving moving- picture hero. , The Nervous Wreck. Sam H. Harris— To be reviewed next week. ‘Tweedles. Frazec—A nice Tarkington trifle, with Gregory Kelly and Rath Gordon. . Two Fellows and a Girl. Vanderbilt— Courtship and marriage somehow made en- tertaining. The Whole Town's Talking. Bijou— Mostly biff-bang farce, with Grant Mitchell. Windows. Garrick—To be reviewed next week. Daly's—To be reviewed next Eye and Ear Entertainment Adrienne. George M. Cohan’s—One of those mus cal shows. Richard Carle and Billy B. Van. Artists and Models. Shubert—A revue made up of rather unusuai sketches and not much clothing. Battling Butler. viewed later. Greenwich Village Follies. den—Reviewed in this issue. Helen of Troy, N. ¥. Times Square— Good all-around musical’ show. Little Jessie James. Longacre—Not much different’ from ‘the others. Little Miss Bluebeard. Irene Bordoni Selwyn—To be re- Winter Gar- Lyceum—Mostly _The Magic Ring. viewed next’ week. Music Box Revue. Music Box—Elab orate spectacle, with Frank Tinney heading the comedy forces. ties of 1923. this issue. Nine O'Clock Revue. To, be reviewed next week ; oppy. Apollo—Madge Kennedy and W. C. Fields make this a netable event. Scandals of 1923. Globe—Better than George White's previous shows. Vanities of 1923. Earl Carroll—Gener- ally good entertainment, thanks to Joe Cook and in spite of Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Wildflower. Casino—You can't beat the Liberty—To be re- Fulton—Reviewed in Century Roof— REMEMBER THE LENGTH OF THE CHURCH AISLE? comicbooks.com