Life, 1925-05-21 · page 23 of 40
Life — May 21, 1925 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is a **theater guide and review section** for Broadway productions, not primarily a political cartoon page. The single illustration shows **Elliott Nugent in "The Poor Nut,"** a character study in profile—a simple theatrical promotional sketch rather than political satire. The text lists dozens of Broadway plays categorized as "More or Less Serious" and "Comedy and Things Like That," with brief, often witty descriptions. Notable entries include "Abie's Irish Rose" (reviewed separately in the issue), the Astaire siblings in "Lady, Be Good!," and Ibsen's "The Wild Duck." The tone is satirical toward the plays themselves—mocking their plots, themes, and sometimes actors' performances—rather than offering political commentary. This reflects Life's role as a cultural critic of 1920s American theater and entertainment.
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More or Less Serious Aloma of the South Seas. Lyric—Warm cuough for you. Dancing Mothers. Marine Elliott's—How bring it home to your daughter that Mother knows best. Desire Under the Elms. Her! Carroil— Mow the sex problem is handled on a New England farm, The Dove. Empire—Holbrook Blinn and Jodith Anderson in Mexican back-talk, much ssual. The Dunce Boy. ing in tragedy The Gorilla. Ladies of the Evenin, Daly's—Country-doings, be reviewed _ Lyceum—Evan play, dealing with the one sheep out of the ninety-and-nine, what a bum time ne bad Night Hawk. Bijou—How the gland treat ut made one little girl very, very happy Old English. Kits—George Arliss in a deft nd vivid characterization. | The Rat. Colonial—Paris Apache stufl. Rosmersholm. Fifty-Second St.—To be re viewed later. Taps. Broadhurst—Old-time German mili- tary play, with Lionel Barrymore They Knew What They Wanted. Ki) good pl spite of the Pulitzer Prize and splendid acting by Pauline Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn Anders. What Price Glory? Plymouth—A war play that isa war play. White Cargo. Thirty-Ninth St—All about | the hot sun and women. The Wild Duck. Forty-Eighth St—Ibsen's old play which is still much newer than most Tn ones, and very well done, too. Comedy and Things Like That Abie's Irish Rose. Republic—Reviewed in this issue. The Back Slapper. Hudson novel character, if not so much The Big Mogul Walleck's— } sicwed later. j Cusar and Cleopatra. Guild—Helen Ma: nel Atwill in Shaw's own particu a of that little affair The, Fall Guy. Fttinge—Lower-mid New York life down cold, with Ernest Truex giving a heart-breakingly’ good performance. _ The Firebrand. Morosco—The active love life of Benvenuto Cellini. The Fourflusher. Apollo—Just » you would imagine. The Guardsman, } and Alf Lunt m of intra-mural Suspicie | visit. The Harem. Belasco—With Lenore Ulric | gone, there isn’t much excuse for keeping thi~ cpen. Is Zat So? Chanin's—Prizefighting talk which sets a Jaugh record—with now and then a couple of good tear Love for Love, Greenwich Village—A re vival of some Seventeenth Century fun b; Congreve, the Avery Hopwood of his day. Mrs. Partridge Presents Belmont Blanche Rates as the mother who wanted to give her children free rein. © Nightingale. Astor—A very nice little play about the equally nice little girl who came to New York to go on the stage. | 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. Pigs extensively as a Mercenary Mary. “clean” play, Jet that keep you viewed neat week ‘away. 5 The Mikado. F The Poor Nut. Henry Miller's be re. warming. revival, viewed later. Music Box Revue. Ruint. Provincetown—What happens when you kiss a mountaineer’s daughter. The Show-Off. Playhouse—One of the plays which should be seen, if for no other reason than to be up with the times. White Collars. in a pretty amusing My Girl. Cort—Applied economics tiedbatad form, tert inment. Eye and Ear Entertainment ers Artists and Models. Casino—Oh, very viewed hater well, go if you want to. _ China Rose. Knickerbocker a bead, Say, High, inte ache in a barrel of it. acne Fj Lady, Be Good! Liberty—The Astaires The Student Prince. and Walter Catlett in just about as good as *inging-feast you will find. Tell Me More. Louie the 14th. Cosmopolitan—An elegant next week. thing to look at, with Leon Errol for the laughs. Fields, The Love Song. tury—Real music, PA FALIOTT NUGENT IN “THE POOR N Princess Ida. in opera which should have been rev Puzzles of 1925. Jimmy Hussey, Rose-Marie. Brice and lots of others in a first-cla Vanderbilt— RY Imperial The School Maid. ‘and Willie How Ziegfeld Follies. Will F funniest Follies Nur” Still with the lead: Ambassador—To be re- rs and Ray Dooley comicbooks.com