Life, 1925-09-10 · page 16 of 41
Life — September 10, 1925 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This entertainment column features photographs of Broadway performers in various theatrical productions. The layout showcases actresses in costume for shows including "Hedda Gabler," "Lady Macbeth," "The Three Sisters," and "Magda." The "Theatreland" section below reviews "Hot Diggety" by Eugene O'Neill, praising it as "a clean play, cleverly presented and entertaining throughout." It describes the plot involving characters named Leo Curdle, Jane Cordale, and their romantic entanglements. The column includes theater notes about prize plays and upcoming announcements from film studios. This appears to be standard entertainment journalism documenting Broadway productions and casting of the 1920s era, rather than political satire or social commentary.
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14 Up and Down Broadway DAILY LIFE HILDA BUICK as *HEDDA GABLER” —AUOITOKIUM ANTOINETTE DEPOT #3 *LADY MACBETH” — ODFOV ===> PICTURES* PRIZES* PUNCHY BILLIE FIGHT as *MASHA® os “THE THREE SISTERS” — ALHAMBRA by Barton OACQUELINE Yan MUCH as *MAGDAY — GRAND THEATRELA “Hot Diggety,” by Eugene O’N eill, opened last night and proved to be a clean play, cleverly presented and entertaining throughout. It sets forth the story of John Carlyle (Sam B. Hardy) who is infatuated with his grandfather (Howard Kyle), thereby making his uncle (Leon Errol) extremely jealous and causing his first cousin, Jane Carlyle (Amelia Bingham) to go to Quantico and join the ma- rines (Abe Erlanger and Mare Klaw). John (Harry Watson) follows Each new play that opens is reviewed for DAILY LIFE by a guest critic who is not connected with the newspaper or theatrical professions, and can therefore reflect the people’s real point of view. Today’s guest critic is Nigel Frisch, Hardware, Bismarck, her with his pal (William Fav- ersham) and be- comes involved in a series of farcical compli- cations — which are laughable in the extreme. In the last act it turns out that John (Richard Bennett) wasn’t really in love with his grand- father after all, but had merely done the whole thing as a prank to fulfill the terms of his niece’s (Julia Sanderson) will, by which it was stipulated that he must marry his grandfather be- fore January 1, or forfeit the ten million dollars. Luckily the niece turns up in time and he marries her instead. There are some rare bits of comedy contributed by Walter Catlett, as an old country squire, and June Walker, as the aunt, performs creditably, not to men- tion Ethel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Alfred Lunt, Eddie Buzzell, Elsie Ferguson and many other members of this talented cast who contribute skilful performances. NOTES John Golden has offered a prize, open to students of Vas- sar College, for the best play on the life of Casanova. “It must be clean,” says Mr. Golden. eee The Eddie Cantor prize play will be announced shortly. eee A prize has -been offered by Jay Brennan, of Brennan and Rogers, for the best play about the Oxford movement in the- ology. eee Announcement from the Mar- cus Loew offices indicates that 1926 will be known as “Metro- Goldwyn Year.” Mind a Blank Posse Hunts Jazz Girl in Jersey Swamp (Special to Daily Life) In the temperate zones there are four seasons: Spring, Sum- mer, Autumn and Winter; be ginning, re- spectively, at e vernal equi- nox, the summer solstice, the au- tumnal equinox and the winter solstice — for which, in the north temperate zone, the ap- proximate dates are March 2ist, June 21st, Sep- ale tember 23d and December 2st In the south temperate zone, the vernal equinox or the inning of spring is Septem r 23d, the summer solstice oF the beginning of summer is De cember 21st, and so on: (Picture on Page 18) Pola Negri comicbooks.com