Life, 1925-04-02 · page 25 of 44
Life — April 2, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Life magazine (likely mid-1920s) is primarily a **theater review section**, not a political cartoon page. The main illustration shows a caricatured face in profile—identified in the caption as **George Arliss in "Old English"**—drawn in an exaggerated theatrical style typical of the era's entertainment journalism. The page consists mostly of **brief, witty capsule reviews** of Broadway productions. Life's reviewing style is sardonic and dismissive; descriptions like "just too darn clean to live" (about *The Handy Man*) and the one-liner about *Hell's Bells*—"The only theatre this hasn't played in now is the Band-box"—showcase the magazine's trademark irreverent humor aimed at theatergoers. The content reflects 1920s theatrical preoccupations: jazz-age morality plays, immigrant melodramas, and sex-themed comedies. This was Life's standard entertainment coverage—popular culture criticism delivered with sharp, knowing commentary for educated urban readers.
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Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should verify from the daily necospapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. More or Less Serious Cape Smoke. Martin Bech—What you get kidding South African witeh-doctors. The Complex. Princess—To be reviewed later. Dancing Mothers. Maxine Elliott's—The rdiest_ of the plays about the Younger eneration. The Dark Angel. | Longacre—The usual ar love mix-up made into a quite effec teve play, with Patricia Collinge as the lady » question, Desire Under the Elms. Ear! Carroll— The mating season in New England. Not O'Neill's worst play, but certainly not his The Devil Within. wed next week. The Dove. Empire—Holbrook Blinn and Anderson in the usual Mexican melo Hudson—To be re- The Dunce Boy. reviewed later, Ladies of the Evening. ral streetwalking. My Son. Nora Bayes—Life slong Cape Night Hawk. Bijou—The Steinach treat- ment as a boon to prostitutes. Punch and Judy—To be Lyceum—Highly Old English. Rito—George Arliss as a delightful wicked old m Processional. Forty-Ninth St—You may wish in ten years that you had seen this, Puppets. Sclwyn—To be reviewed next The Rat. Colonial—Apache stuff. Notione!—The crook with a heart layed by H. B. Warner. “They Knew What They Wanted Klow— California as the scene of a triangular affair, bly ted Pauline Lord, Richard and Glenn Anders. What Price Glory? Plymouth—See this hefore the next war, and maybe there won't one White Cargo. Comedy—The hot sun and native woman in malign conjunction, The Wild Duck. Forty-Eighth St—An lent presentation of one of the world’s t plays. Comedy and Things Like That Republic—They put an bicycle races by tearing Garden. How about present site Republic Theatre? Ariadne. Garrich—Laura Hope Crews add- ing much to a surprisingly heavy-handed Milne play. Begear on Horseback. Shubert—Return gagement of Roland Young htful satiric fantasy (see title). The Blue Peter. Second St.—To be reviewed later. Candida. Amba. comedy, with Pegg role. The Fall Guy. the best thing he has ever had. Vicwsd more fully next week, in that de- Shaw's matchless Word now in the title Eltinge—Ernest Trvex in To be re- The Firebrand. lini’s love affairs The Morosco—Benvenuto Cel- ‘amusing panorama Guardsman. Booth—Two sparkling mances by Lynn Fontanne and Alfred “The Handy Man. Thirty-Ninth St.—Just too darn clean to live. The Harem. Belasco—Lenore Ulric in statutory offenses, Hell's Bells. George M. Cohan—The onl fhestre this hasn’t played in now is the Band. ox Is Zat So? Chanin’s—-A comedy of prize- ghting that is more replete with laughs than any show in town. The Little Minister. viewed later. Loggerheads. Goicty—To be reviewed next week. Globe—To be re Partridge Presents. Belmont— Blanche Bates in a very nice little comedy of duvenile revolution. Pigs. | Little ~The business venture of couple of good kids. Quarantine, | Henry Miller’s—Helen Hayes and Sidney Blackmer on a honeymoon by mistake. She Had to Know. Times Square—The problem of sex attraction deftly handled with silk gloves by Grace George. The Show-Off. Playhouse—You know what we think of this, and what almost every- body else thinks of i Starlight. Broadhurst—Doris_ Keane in countless episodes in the life of a famous actress White Collars. Cort—One of those plays which you either like or don't, Personally, we don't care one way or the other. GEORGE ARLISS IN “OLD E Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Casino—Just that. a Rose. Knickerbocker—Nothing at all. Lady, Be Good! Liberty—The Astaires and Walter Catlett in one of the best. Louie the 14th. Cosmopolitan—Reviewed in this issue, The Love lovers. Music Box Revue. Music Bor—A first class revue, with Fannie Brice and lots else My Girl Vanderbilt—Pleasantly unim portant. Puzzles of 1925. Fulton—Elsie Janis and a show of which she may be proud, Jimmy Hussey assisting. Rose-Marie. Jmperial—A delightful score Sky High. Winter Garden—Old-tas musical comedy, with Willie Howard The Student Prince. Fifty-Ninth St.— The best chorus singing in town Topsy and Eva. Som H. Harr harmonizing Duncan Sisters making Tom's Cabin” something else again. feld Follies. New Amsterdam—Re in this issue. Song. Century—For music- LISH” comicbooks.com