Life — April 16, 1925 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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More or Less Serious The Blue Peter. Fifty-Second St.—To be reviewed next week, Cape Smoke. Martin Beck—The noisy troubles of a set of South African miners da native witch-doctor. The Complex. Princess — Psychopathic drama which has survived the special matinee “Dancing Mothers. Maxine Elliott's—What to do when your ehter acts up, Desire Under the Elms. Ear! Carroll—The Ll problem of keeping the farmer's wife sed, treated in O'Neill's best and worst The Dove. Empire—Holbrook Blinn and Judith, Anderson in broken English dealing the usual Mexican border troubles, The Dunce Boy. Daly’s—To be reviewed next week s of the Evening. Lyceum—The sad a bad girl who went good. My Son. Nora Bayes—Oh, well, it's about ve Cod Portuguese. Night Hawk. Bijou the prostitute, Old English. Ri sketch by George Arliss. Ostriches. Comedy—To be reviewed next Processional. Garrick—America in azz, and something to be scen. . The ‘Rat. Cofowial—We wouldn't care if we never saw another one of these Apache plays, would you? Ruint. Provincetown—To be reviewed next Silence. Netional—H. B. crook play that fits him, Taps. | Broadhurst—To be reviewed later. They Knew What They Wanted. Klaw— The stimulating effect of California on parent hood, shown ina superbly acted play with ve Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn What Price Glory? Plymouth about the war which stands alone. White Cargo, Thirty-Ninth St—The same oll_African sun still beating down. The Wild Duck. Forty-Eighth St.—One of the best plays we ever saw, done in ex cellent fashion, Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic—We can hardly wait until next month when this will he three years old. Backslappers. Hudson—To be More problems of character A. perfect terms Warner in a play reviewed Cxsar and Cleopatra, Guild—To be re viewed Jater, The Fall Guy. Eltinge—Ernest Truex in a simple comedy of simple folk which man cs to be grand entertainment, The Firebrand. Morosco—Some of the agile things that Beavenuto Cellini did when in amorous mood, entertainingly outlined with Joseph Schildkraut as the Kid himself. The Guardsman. Booth—Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt making a comedy of domes tic suspicions far better than most of its class. The Harem. Belasco—Just a good dirty show, with Lenore Ulric Hell's Bells. George M. Cohan—If we had had our way, this play wouldn't have moved around town’so much, Zat So? Chanin’s—You don’t have to know much about prizefighting to think that this is one of the funniest plays in town, The Little Minister. Globe—Ruth Chat. terton showing that this is a pretty bad old play. Loggerheads. Gaicty—To be reviewed next week. Love for Love. Greenwich Village—To be reviewed next week. Mismates. Times Squat later. Mrs. Partridge Presents— Belmont—A del- icate and witty reversal of the Younger Gen To be reviewed eration problem, with Blanche Bates as the managing mother. _ Pigs. Little—Don't let the fact that this ig advertised ‘as being “clean” frighten you off, Quarantine, Henry Miller’s—Vivian Mar tin’ and Sidney’ Blackmer in honeymoon Comedy. The Sctwyn—To be re The Sapphire Ring. viewed later. The Show-Off. Playhouse—In spite of sev eral excellent imitations, this still remains the bell-cow of middleclass’ home comedy, Starlight. Walleck’s—Doris Keane in an uneven array of incidents in the life of a certain French actress. White Collars. Cort—A comedy of eco. nomic theory and practice which has several very good features in what has unfortunately become a conventional setting. Eye and Ear Entertainmemt Artists and Models. Casino—If that's what. you want, Father. Bringing Up wheel stuf. China Rose. Knickerbocker—Ho- hum! Lady, Be Good! Liberty—One of the best, thanks to Gershwin’s music, the Astaires’ dancing, and Walter Catlett's’ clowning. Lyric—Burlesque Louie the 14th. Cosmopolitan—Leon Errol in a beautiful spectacle. ‘ The Love Song. Century—If music is what you want Mercenary Mary. viewed later. Longacre—To be re: The Mikado. Forty-Fourth St.—To be re viewed later. . . Music Box Revue. Music Bos—Fannie Brice and a talented group of colleagues in a good all-around revue with Irving Berlin music, . My Girl. Vanderbilt— pleasant. Princess Ida. 5 o be reviewed later. Puzzles of 1192S. Fulton—Elsie Janis’ highly satisfactory revue, with Jimmy, Hussey. ‘ose-Marie. Jmperiai—The musical comedy hit_of the year. The School Maid. viewed later. Ambassador—To be re- Sky High Winter Garden—Good dancing in an old-fashioned show. The Student Prince. Fifty-Ninth St. Splendid sin Topsy and Eva § Duncan Sisters making melodious. Ziegfeld Follies. New Amsterdam—A new and funny show, thanks to W. C. Fields and Ray Dooley, with Will Rogers still lending the Rogers touch. n H. Harris—Those Uncle Tom's Cabin” THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT DISCOVERS THAT IT COSTS THE FIRM THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS EVERY TIME EDDIE THE OFFICE BOY GOES WHISTLING DISTURBING JAZZ AIRS THROUGH THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT, comicbooks.com