Life, 1925-02-19 · page 21 of 37
Life — February 19, 1925 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is a **theater review guide** for Broadway productions, not a political cartoon. The illustration shows a caricatured woman's face labeled "HELEN HAYES IN 'QUARANTINE'" — a promotional drawing for the Henry Miller's Theatre production featuring Helen Hayes and Sidney Blackmer. The "Confidential Guide" is a regular **entertainment column** listing current theatrical shows with brief critical assessments. Categories include "More or Less Serious" (dramatic works like *Othello*, *Desire Under the Elms*), "Comedy and Things Like That" (lighter fare), and "Eye and Ear Entertainment" (musicals and revues). The satirical tone typical of *Life* magazine appears in the **capsule reviews** themselves—witty one-liners mocking plots or performances (e.g., *What Price Glory?* as commentary on war). This was a standard weekly feature helping readers navigate Manhattan's theater district during the 1920s.
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Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should v 19 ify from the daily newspapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. More or Less Serious Dancing Mothers. Marine Elliott's old story of the new generation. The Depths. this issue. Desire Under the Elms. Earl Carrol! The mating season on a New England f. involving a minimum of Diff'rent. Provincetown—A__ revival of O'Neill's study of intensive continence. The Dove. Episode. ek. The Broadhurst—Reviewed in Empire—To be reviewed later. Bijou—To be reviewed next Ladies of the Evening. Lyceum—How one young woman was saved from sin. My Son, Nora Bayes—Still running. Old English. Rite—George Arliss in a de ghtful characterization, Othello. Shubert—Walter Hampden's re- vival of that old black-face act. The Piker. Eltinge—A new figure in crook psychology, with Lionel Barrymore to play it, Processional. Garrick—Vivid and stirring expression of American life in terms of jazz. Silence. National—Good, easy-running nal baiting, and H. B. ‘Warner. They Knew What They Wanted. Klow— ne Lord and Richard Bennett in a poignant play of paternity in Northern Cali: lornia, What Price Glory? Plymouth—Something for you to see, thrill at, and think about the next time they try to start a war on you. White Cargo. Dely's—The white man's burden in Africa. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Refublic—Came morn- Badges. Ambassador—Madge Kennedy and Gregory Kelly in pretty smart detective work, Candida. Forty-Eighth St.—Just about as done just Katharine nell in the title rdle, The Dark Angel. viewed later. Firebrand. Morosco—Joseph Schild st as Benvenuto Cellini the quick worker, in a few of his fastest affairs. The Good Bad Woman. Comedy—To be reviewed later. The Guardsman. Booth—A__ pleasant comedy enhanced tenfold by the presence of Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. The Harem. Belasco—Mr. Belasco’s cur- rent contribution to salacity, with Lenore Ulric heading the cast. Hell’s Bells, Walleck’s—Only fair, Is Zat So? Thirty-Ninth St—A funny show, and even more than that. Mrs. Partridge Presents—. Belmont— Blanche Bates in very nice stuff indeed. et of Step. Hudson—Reviewed in this Longacre—To be re- very Pigs Little—All you could ask by way of light entertainment. Quarantine. Henry Miller's—Two young pfcels on a honeymoon malgré eux. Helen layes and Sidney Blackmer as the young people. She Had to Know. reviewed next week. The Show-Of. Playhouse—They make them any better than this. The Small Timers, Punch and Judy—Re- viewed in this issue. The Undercurrent. next week. The Youngest. Gaicty—Henry Hull and Genevieve Tobin in nice, though confused, banter, Times Square—To be don’t Cort—To be reviewed Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. revues Betty Lee. Casino—One of those Forty-Fourth St.—Fair enough. Winter Garden—Al Jolson back Chauve-Souris. Forty-Ninth — St.— and a new bill, Balief The Grab, Bag. Globe—Ed Wynn, Ed yan, and Ed Wynn, ady, Be Good. Liberty—The Walter Catlett, and a Gershwin highly satisfactory combination. The done Astaires, score in Love Song. a” musical, Music Box Revue. Music Bor—Fannie Brice and an all-around good revue, My Girl. Venderbilt—Rather nice. Patience, Greenwich Villege—That re- vival you have been looking for, Puzzles of 1925, Fulton—To be reviewed next week. Rose-Marie. in. The Student Prince. Jolson's Fifty-Ninth St—Male chorus singing that makes you realize how seldom you hear it nowadays. pZiceteld Poliies. Nevo Amsterd or ington and Will Rogers and—ob, you Century—Expensively Imperial—Still packing them Bue HELEN HAYES IN “QUARANTINE” comicbooks.com