Life, 1924-11-27 · page 21 of 37
Life — November 27, 1924 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is a **theatre review section** from Life magazine's "Confidential Guide," listing current Broadway productions with brief critiques. The cartoon illustrates **Ethel Barrymore in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,"** a dramatic play about a woman of questionable past entering high society. The simple line-drawn figure shows a woman in an elegant, form-fitting gown—capturing the play's central tension: a socially "compromised" woman attempting to navigate respectable society through her beauty and charm. The drawing's minimalist style emphasizes her fashionable silhouette, reflecting 1920s theatrical aesthetics. The play itself (originally by Arthur Wing Pinero) was a Victorian social drama about class prejudice and a woman's impossible quest for acceptance. Barrymore's starring role was prestigious; her dignified performance would have been noted by contemporary audiences familiar with the play's moral dimensions.
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More or Less Serious Conscience. Belmont—Considerable talk on one thing and another, enlivened by a vivid performance by Lillian Foster. Dancing Mothers. Marine Elliott's —The often-stated problem of the Younger Genera. tion, solved with some distinction at the final curtain, Dawa. later. The Desert Flower. viewed next weeks. Desire Under the Elms. Gre. —To be reviewed next week The Fake. Hudson — Godfrey gentlemanly homicide. Firmin Gémier. Jolson's Fifty-Ninth St.— The Odéon Company from Paris in reper Sam H. Harris—To be reviewed Lengacre—To be re: wich Village Tearle in High Stakes. Eltinge—A lot of pretty bad jodrama, with the somewhat redeeming presence of Lowell Sherm: Mme. Simone. Henry Af The French in_ repertoire. . My Son. Nora Baycs—Cape Cod Portu- gee’ talk. _ Rain. Gaicty— Don't be silly. You've queray. Cort—Ethel re splendid in a revival of what was once stull Shipwrecked. Iallack's—To be reviewed next, week, Silence, National! —To be reviewed next week Simon Called Peter. AKlaw—To be reviewed next week. They Knew What They Wanted. Gerrict To be reviewed later. Tiger Cats. Belasco — Robert Loraine and Katharine Cornell in one of those transla tions about a professor whose wife worries m—almost to death, in this case. What Price Glory? Plymouth—Love and war among the marines. A grand play. White Cargo. Daly's—Well, it seems there was this white man who went to live in Mirica, Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Repudlic— We, the ple of the United States, in order to rm a more perfect Union,” establish jus tice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for common defense, promote the general are (to be continued next week). The Best People. Lyceum—One of the many plays about the goings-on of the young veaple, and not the best by along shot he Farmer’s Wife. Comedy—Kich Devon- shire dialect. used amusingly The Firebrand. Morosco— The bedroom exits and entrances of Benvenuto Cellini wade into a highly entertaining farce, with Joreph 'Sebildkraut as the boy. himself. Grounds for Divorce. Empire—Ina Claire making something out of what would other- se be a fairly conventional marriage x-up. The Guardsman. Booth — Excellent high dy, thanks to Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. The Haunted House. George M. Cohan's —Pretty funny mystery play, with Wallace Edinger, lazy, Thirty-Ninth St.—Personally, we like to hear Jimmy Hussey talk Jewish. Lazybones. Vanderdilt—New England rus tics in somewhat more interesting complica. tions than usual. Minick. Bijow—A true copy of family life when complicated by the presence of the father-in-law. Good stuff. Peter Pan. Knickerbocker — Reviewed in this issue, Pigs. | Littl—Pleasant, The Show-Of. Playhouse—The last word in American home comedy. Lynn 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. The Steam Roller, viewed next week. The Way of the World. Cherry Lane—To be reviewed later. The Werewolf. Forty. cuity in a spirit of fun. Princess —To be re Vinth St. — Promis Eye and Ear Entertainment Annie Dear. Times Square—To be re viewed next week. Artists and Models. Astor—You kno The Chocolate Dandies. Colonial —T dean of the colored shows. Dixie to Broadway. Broadhurst—The best of the colored shows, with Florence Mills. The Grab Bag. Globe—Ed Wynn. Do you want to know any more? Greenwich Village Follies. Shubert—Moran and Mack lending a few perfect moments to an otherwise tiresome. spectacle he ETHEL BARRYMORE IN “THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY” Casino—The Marx Brotb- to I'll Say She I ers are lunny € thing—and there for. Kid Boots. bounding along. nake erable for every make up wyn — Eddie Cantor still Madame Pompadour. Martin To be reviewed next week Marjorie. Forty-Fourth St,—Elizabeth Hines and Andrew Tombes in a good w Passing Show. Il’inter Mardly worth while, Ritz Kevue. Ritz—Beau a bit over Charlotte Greenwood helps out Rose-Marie. /mperial—A chai Scandals. Afollo— Tom Patricol. Allen and Winnie Lightner in G best. sophisticate: ng score. Le: working harde Ziegfeld Follies. new stuff and Will k comicbooks.com