Life — March 26, 1925 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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More or Less Serious Cape Smoke. Martin Beck—What one dis- agreeable South African witch-doctor can do toa lot of English diamond hunters. Dancing Mothers. Marine Eliiott's—One modern mother who just couldn't stand it, that's all. The Dark Angel. Longocre—Patricia Col- linge as a young lady whose lover wasn't really killed in the war. Effectively handled. Desire Under the Elms, Ear! Carroll Not O'Neill's best play by any means, but good enough to escape censorship. See bitter paragraph on opposite page. The Dove. Empire—Holbrook Blinn and Judith Anderson in well-staged Mexican junk. The Dunce Boy. Punch and Judy—To be reviewed later. Ladies of the Evening. Lyceum—An, at- tempt to bring about a better understanding between the sexes. Michel Auclair. in this issue. My Son. Nora Bayes—For what seemed a highly unimportant hittle play, this is doing very well indeed, Perhaps we didn’t get it. Night Hawk. Bijou—A message of hope for tired streetwalkers. Old English. Kite—George Arliss in one of the most satisfactory characterizations in town. Provincetown—Reviewed Processional. Forty-Ninth — St—Concen trated Amei whether you like it or not And somehow ‘we feel that if you can feel anything at all, you'll like it Puppets. Sel! To be reviewed next week The Rat. Colonie!—Apache play number 147. Series B. Silence. National—Crook melodrama made for H, B. Warner. They Knew What They Wanted. K/law— station in California made into a fine play Rnely acted by Pauline Lord, Richard Ben- nett and Glenn Anders. What Price Glory? end Wars to End War. Plymouth—A play to 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. White Cargo. Comedy—There seems to be some question who wrote this first, but there is no_question about its money-making qualities, The Wild Duck. Forty-Lighth $1—One of the grandest plays ever written and done in a fitting manner. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic—The month this opened (May, 1922) the editor of this department. started growing a mustache. He bas just shaved it off. Let’s see what thet will do. It’s funny we didn’t think of that before. Ariadne. Garrick—Pretty clumsy Milne, with Laura Hope Crews to keep it on its toes: Candida. Ambassador—Shaw's matchless comedy. The Fall Guy. Eltinge—To be reviewed next week. The Handy Man. be reviewed next wee The Harem. — Belasco—Lenore Ulric_in something which never would be missed if the censors did their duty. Hell's Bells. Daly's—There are lots of plays nearer the center of town. is Zat So? Chanin's—Good for several hundred hearty laughs, whether you follow prizefights or not. The Firebrand. Morosco—A_ sophisticat edly entertaining account of one or two of Benvenuto Cellini’s more presentable amnours The Guardsman, Booth—What might have been just another story of the suspicious hus. band had not Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt been cast in it to give it distinction. “The Little Minister. Globe—To be re viewed later. Loggerheads. Gaiety—To he reviewed later. Mrs. Partridge Presents—— — Beimont Blanche Bates in a new and delightful angle on the children problem. Pigs Little—Much better than most clean plays Quarantine, | Henry Mille's—Melen Hayes and Sidney Blackmer in honeymoon trouble under the yellow fay. Thirty-Ninth St—To THE NEW MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT OF CENSORSHIP RESPONDS TO A FOUR-ALARM BROADWAY HIT, She Had to Know. Times Square—A comedy more nearly suited to Grace George’s charm than she has had for a long time. The Show-Off. Playhouse—If you haven't seen this yet, don't look any farther. . | Starlight. " Broadhurst—Reviewed in this issue. White Collars. Cort—May very well be popular for all of us. Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Casino—Not the best revue in town. Betty Lee. Forty-Fourth St.—Pretty tepid Big Boy. Winter Garden—Al Jolson knocking ‘em off their seats. Lady, Be Good! Liberty—Very near the top, what with the Astaires, Walter Catlett and Gershwin music. Louie the Fourteenth. be reviewed next week. The Love Song. Century—If you don't care about the book so long as the music is good. Music Box Revue. Music. Bor—Unless you saw the first Music Box, this is the best you ever saw, and it bas Fannie Brice, too. My Girl, Vanderbilt—Good staple stuff. Patience. — Greenwich lage—For the Gilbert and Sullivan battalion Puzzles of 1925. Fulton—Elsie Janis’s ex cellent revue, with Jimmy Hussey Cosmopolitan—To Rose-Marie. Jmperial—If you can get in, you'll hear some delightful music. Sky High, Shubcrt—Of the vintage of 1904, with Willie Howard and some very peppy dancing. The Student Prince. Fifty-Ninth St Grand singing Topsy and Eva. Sam Harris —The in imitable Duncan Sisters singing their way through “Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ziegfeld Follies, New Amsterdam—A new edition which we haven't seen yet, but it contains W. C. Fields; so we know it has much recommend it, sight unseen. comicbooks.com