Life — February 7, 1924 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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And So Forth AFTER lying 1 " a aso Mz gr w leaps out mething by ah “Henry IV") has its exciting moments, but s p to enjoy them. In “Six Charact Author” there was a considerable ani t the matte ler discussion was a tempting one for the ience to join In “The Living Mask” the questior simply How crazy is the man who thinks he is Henry IVP" and the people on the stage have a monopoly of all the facts in the case, These facts they grud| to the audience, a teaspoonful at a time, but even wh along a 9:45, you have enough data at hand to form your own, yo inclined to let the who! At times we thought that Arnold Korff, Mr. Pemberton’s from the Irving Place Sc was a very fine actor, and at others we were sure that he was just a German model of Howard Kyle German importat uspielhaus It may perhaps mean something that those moments when we thought that was a fine actor were those moments when Sig. Piran dello was at his in the text Lister Pitt,” was mad from her novel * h. TH second Pemberton offe by Miss Gale and is a play to tear your heart from its moorings. The story of a mute who w ati the hrough life embarrassing peop'c whom he most desired to. please conscious of his inarticulate gaucheric and yet always hoping ne day to find a way to show peop a bad s “Mis Pitt” you can bear, so poi he really wasn’t at times almost more t’ its tragedy And particularly as played by Walter Huston does this itiful figure grip you and turn you inside out. Mr. Huston comes from vaudeville, where so many of our good things in the legitimate theatre have ori ful piece of work. In fact, the whole cast, with Minna ated, and does a beauti Gombel playing opposite Mister Pitt as long as she can stand it, is startlin: in creat ¢ illusion of the manners and modes of 1902. “Mister Pitt” i ‘cous ending in which, to save your heart from b irely, the old battle “Or pretty ramshackle and hitehy, and has an comes steami jump out of the special matince class int ular attractions, for it is one of the best thin ht out this season. It has the di logical list of Southern backw plays, but it should come first in any other ranking Hughes ing third in a chror It is notable chiefly for the creation by Hatcher the author, of a new type of character, the your fanatic who commits detestable villainies in the sincere letief that he carrying out the word of God. The dis- covery of John F, Hamilton for this part a piece of luck that comes to a cast ector once in a lifetime It was probably more than luck that made some one realize that Glenn Anders was fitted for better parts than his erst while Leyendecker rdles under Avery Hopwood's beds, while Augustin Duncan and George Abbott were obvious ch where good act of that particular sort was needed. all in all, “Hell-Bent fer Heave a distinct asset ENRY MILLER'S having sed the name of to “The Merry Wives of Gotham” has rol us of our chief complaint Our othe shastics Laurence Eyre comedy if that it to it simmer down to the i is about convincing as a Punch and Judy On the credit si a two incomparable mistresses comedy, Grace Gev and Laura Hope Crews, 1 unusual stage-sets. a certain amot ever f pleasant Irish dialogue Arthur Sinclair. The main reason for attending it, however, is th enhanced by the rich brogue of opportunity of seeing Miss Geor Miss Crews to- gether on the same platform. A [7 as of course. unfortunate that Miss Rambeau was suffering from 1 » such an extent on the n { the opening of “The Road Together” that the play was closed the next night with considerable hard feeling on all sides. But, really, any play in which one chara r confides in another that Life is nothing but a kaleidoscope ought h more than to run n ¢ night, nerves or no nerves. comicbooks.com