Life, 1924-04-03 · page 33 of 60
Life — April 3, 1924 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine is a theatre guide listing contemporary Broadway shows (circa early 1920s). The cartoon at bottom illustrates the famous *Ziegfeld Follies*, a lavish revue known for elaborate staging and glamorous performers. The illustration shows four figures: **Fannie Brice** (comedian), **Brooke Johns**, **Ann Pennington** (dancer), and **Paul Whiteman** (bandleader). They're depicted among a crowd of chorus girls, capturing the Follies' characteristic blend of star performers and massive ensemble casts. The satire is gentle—the exaggerated caricatures and the tiny chorus members beneath the stars poke fun at the Follies' grandiose spectacle and its emphasis on star power over individual performers. The page itself serves primarily as an entertainment guide rather than hard political satire, reflecting *Life's* role as both satirical magazine and cultural chronicler of 1920s Broadway.
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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 Cyrano de Bergerac. Hampden dramas. Hell-Bent fer Heaven. Frazee—A continu- ously interesting account of a religious fanatic’s devilry. urricane. — Frolic—What Olga Petrova. In the Next Room. son's murder mystery. Macbeth. Forty-Eighth St.—James K. Hackett ina limited engagement. The Miracle. Century—A stupendous and beautiful spectacle. The Outsider. A mbassador—Clinical drama with considerable punch. Lionel Atwill and Katharine Cornell. Outward Bound. dealing with Limbo. Rain. Marine Elliott’s—Jeanne Eagels in the play that almost every one has seen. _ Saint Joan. Empire—Shaw's characteristic interpretation of how a saint is made, with Winifred Lenihan in the title réle. Seventh Heaven. Booth—Helen Menken acting in an actory piece. Sun-Up. _Princess—American _ peasant drama showing the awakening of patriotism. Well handled. Tarnish. Belmont—One of the best of the season's dramatizations of middle-class home problems. Welded. this issue. r National—Walter in the grandest of all romantic happened to. Vanderbilt—The sea- Ritz—A remarkable play Thirt; th St.—Reviewed in White Cargo. Daly’s—Showing the effect of the tropics on the white constitution, Very vivid. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Across the Street. viewed next week. Beggar on Horseback. tighttal Republic—Dear, dear! Hudson—To be re- Broadhurst—De dream satire on things in. general, with Roland Young. Fashion. Provincetown—A superior laugh at the way they did things in 1845. Fata Morgana. Garrick Emily, Stevens in an explicit drama of the ways of a matron with a youth. For All of Us. Lyric—William Hodge bursting with kindliness. Meet the Wife. Klaw—Mary Boland in a near‘satire on literary lion-hunting Spring Cleaning. Eltinge—Amusing dirt. The Goose Hangs High. Bijou—What it means to have children in this generation, entertainingly shown. The Lady Killer. this issue. The Merry Wives of Gotham. Miller’s—Grace George and Laura Crews in a bit of Insh, The Moon-Flower. Fulton—Paper-covered romance, with Elsie Ferguson and Sidney Blackmer. ° The Nervous Wreck. Sam H. Harris— Buckety-buckety farce, with Otto Kruger and June Walker. The Potters. Plymouth—Donald Meek as the remarkably lifelike paterfamilias. Morosco—Reviewed in Henry Hope x __ The Show. in bome-comedies The Swan. Cort—éva LeGallienne in a thoroughly distinguished comedy We Moderns. Gaicty—Reviewed in this issue. Playhouse—The last word _ Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Winter G Pretty low Charlot's Revue. Times Square—A Le company showing us how. Kid Boots, Ear! Carroll— his best. Little Jessie James, Litt!-—One good tune. Lollipop. Knickerbocker—Ada May some good tunes. Mary Jane McKane. Imperial—Mary Hay and Hal Skelly in something nice Moonlight. Longacre—Lots of and Julia Sanderson Mr. Battling Buttler. oldest in town, Music Box Revue. Music Tinney and lots to look at. Poppy. Apollo—Madge Kennedy and W. Cr Fields {a one of the best. Stepping Stones. Globe—Fred Stone and daughter in dance steps Sweet Little Devil. Binney in person. Vogues. Shubert—To be reviewed later Ziegteld Follies. New Amsterdam—Some new features, plus Fannie. Brice Jie Cantor at music— Selwyn—One of the Bor—Frank Central—Constance PANNIE BRICE, BROOKE JOHNS, ANN PENNINGTON AND PAUL WHITEMAN, IN “THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES,”