Life — June 26, 1924 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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18 Old Friend E are a little late in covering “The having been away on ¢ own Golden Wedding trip at the time of its opening, but we hope that it is not too late to speak a good word for it. We tear that it may be If you were able to see at all in 1901, you will remember seeing the posters for the original production of this highly moral melodrama stuck up in the dru; ho teresting subject (as we were), you stole a quarter from the family vault and went to see it low of your n, and perhaps, if you were a psychologically in store ¥ ve tow It won't do you a harm to see it again, even if you have to steal the tw Tt will make you think. twenty-five. S a revival, it is handled much more subtly than the revival of “Fashion.” No one in the cast seems to realize that it is funny, Milano Tilden, as the incredibly harassed husband, plays with a tragic seriousness which is as genuine as the black waiste full- he rest of the company are equally concerned at he wears with his dress suit with the tr cha h of virtue or perfidy, according to their cters. once is there a sophisticated giggle or a leer to indicate that they know that this is a silly old bundle of hoke. It is interesting to’ note the scenes which have become funny with the passing of twenty-odd years, The old comedy between the Irish cook and the French butler registers just nothing But, try as you will, you can not laugh at the bit where the pale mother The drama is now the comedy in the tenement bends over the bed of her supposedly dying boy, even though you know that it is one of the oldest gags in the business. There is something about the top of the very small head, visible over the pillow, which bears too much resemblance to the top of some very small head or other in real life to allow for a full play of your sense of the cor Which only reached by Old Dr. He bag long enough. es to show that every one can be um if he only hunts around in his . Robert C. Be Confidential Guide Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers sh newspapers the continuance of t More or Less Serious j ide satire Beggar on Horseback. uld verify from t ttractions at the theatres » Eye and Ear Entertainment > daily thurst—Genu rtainment, with , . in Province. Roland Ye he her Charlot's Revue. Seiwyn—English stars in an Soimewhat discursive but worth soeing The Bride. Thirty Pesgy Wood a Gradeh rete nly for Pant Robeson’s performance of in a mystery play whic a no reason for Flossie. Lyric—To he reviewed next week Eugene O'Neill's hero. having Jest -ncsical | comedy Grand Street Follies. — Neighborhood Cheaper to Marry, Belmont — Different Expressing Wille, “Ferty-Eighth Si 0d High-class amusement for the ever-increasing f cohabitation figured out in the order comedy, well play , Few of their preference (Samuel Shipma Fashion. Greenuich Village — An 1845 Iu Say She Is. Casino—The Marx preference) tama’ Kidded with Kiadncss 5, Brothers in a show which threw this depart Cobra, Hudson—The Man, his Best Friend || The Fatal Wedding. Ritz—Reviewed im ment into bys and his Wife, so well acted that it seems like this issue. re Winter Geter Nubia a new one. Fata Morgana. ° Lyceum—Should be aa Jnnocent yea. a ti inter, Ger Not a tional—W alter the serious plays, as it deals vividly - , Terrie de Be oe National —Weltes uel trascdy'a illusioned youth, E Keep Kool. Morosco—A good, fast-rolling de that isan drama. Stevens as the ¢ iT ner evening. . The Miracle week of the The Goose Hangs High. Bijow—As good Kid Boots. Earl C Eddie Cantor season's. most remarkatle gpectacie, Don't presentation of the problem of the Older and your money's worth. miss it Ge ion as we have seen, Little Jessie James. Little—Not our Saint Joan, Meet the Wife. e—Mary Roland as favorite J J with any the dy who wets her husbands mixed in a Accalight., ‘Loneacre-Tulin'Sesdireoniaed nite! Carks.. Daly'e—Showing what Map: tht Muni eeranal cow leche and Loe f,Mf Battling Butter. Times Square—O) s. Fields. air. E The Potters. Plymowth—Peeking into the Poppy Ap W. C. Fields worth the home life's ge Man with m price OF admtesion, with moments by Luella Comedy and Things Like That The Shaw-Of. Plathouse-—To one mi Sitting Pretty. Imperial —Very pretty 5 arcs the best American play of the year indeed Pye het arpa ae sp mended So This Is Politics! Henry Miller’s—To Vogues. Shubert—Jimmy Savo and Fred editor will be considered Spring, Cleaning. their receipt making dirt entertaining Ziegteld Follies. reviewed later, ge—A sterling cast Amsterdam—To be comicbooks.com