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This page is a **theatre review guide** listing Broadway shows currently running, organized by genre (serious dramas, comedies, musical entertainment). It's not primarily satirical—it's a practical listing for readers. The cartoon below depicts a **Prohibition-era joke**. A customer asks a bartender about "that row of padlocks behind the bar," with the bartender responding "our wound stripes." The satire: During Prohibition (1920-1933), bars operated illegally as speakeasies. The "wound stripes" reference compares the padlocks to military decorations—suggesting the bar's repeated police raids and closures are like battle wounds or medals of honor from fighting law enforcement. It's dark humor about organized crime's role in illegal alcohol service and the cat-and-mouse game between speakeasies and authorities. The joke assumes readers understand Prohibition's prevalence and the speakeasy culture of 1920s urban life.

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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. More or Less Serious Accused. Belasco—To be reviewed later. The Bridge of Distance. reviewed later. Morosco—To be Canary Dutch. Lyceum—Willard Mack in an old-fashioned heart-wringer. The Crooked Friday. Maxine Elliott's—To be reviewed later. Desire Under the Elms. Dely's—The long winter evenings on a New England farm and their relation to the birth-rate. The Green Hat. Broadhurst—Reviewed in this issue. Harvest. Belmont—To be reviewed next week. The Mud Turtle. Bijou—How a waitress, aided by Nature, ruined a wheat crop. Helen MacKellar in her best chance for some time. The Pelican. Times Square—To be re: viewed next week. They Knew What They Wanted. Klow— Pauline Lord, Leo Carrillo and Glenn Anders as the triangle in a new solution of an old problem. The Vortex. Henry Miller’s—Reviewed in this issue. White Cargo. IWallack’s—White men in the throes of that old sun-trouble. Comedy and Things Like That Abie's Irish Rose. Repablicg Tele space reserved. Compliments of a frien Applesauce. later. Arms and the Man. Guild—Reviewed in this issue. The Book of Charm. Comedy—The boy who tried to build up his personality, with amusing results. Brother Elks. ternal talk. The Butter and Egg Man. Longacre—To be reviewed next wee Courting. Forty-Ninth St—Scotch comedy. Very mild. Cradle Snatchers. Music Bos—Thoroughly offensive and thoroughly successful. Easy Terms. Netional—To be next week. The Fall of Eve. Booth—Ruth Gordon in a pretty tepid comedy of high life and jeal ousy on Long Island. The Family Upstairs. Littl—Home life of the flat-dweller, much like the bome life of other stage flat-dwellers. The Gorilla, Selwyn—The last word in burlesque melodrama. _The Holy Terror. viewed later. Human Nature, later, _ Is Zat So? Chanin's—Prizefight talk which is funny even if you don’t know prizefights. The Jazz Singer. Fulton—George Jessel as a Jewish boy who made good. The Kiss in the Taxi, Ritz—French farce with a large number of laughs, kindness of Arthur Byron. Ambassador—To be reviewed Princess—Business and fra- reviewed Cohan's—To be re- Liberty—To be reviewed The New Gallantry. Cort—To be reviewed next week. Oh! Mama. more French farce. Outside Looking In. Greenwich Village— A slice of tramp life, done in practically perfect shape. The Poor Nut. Forty-Eighth St.—A whole track-meet and other entertaining forms of collegiate existence. Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Iinter Garden—A good show, what with the Hoffmann Girls and Phil Baker, Big Boy. Forty-Eighth St.—Al Jolson “at top form. Captain Jinks. Martin Beck—Tuneful. Dearest Enemy. Knickerbocker—To be reviewed later, Gay Paree. Shubert—Chic Sale and regu- lation revue-stuff. Playhouse—Alice Brady in Grand Street Follies. Neighborhood—Ex- cellent burlesques of last season's plays. June Days. Louie the 14th. Cosmopoliten—Leon Errol in spectacular surroundings. Merry, Merry. Vanderbilt\—To be re viewed later, Central—Fair. No, No, Nanette. Globe—You probably know’ the music anyway by now Rose-Marie, Imperia!—Still at the top: Scandals of 192. Apfollo—That White show. The Student singing. George Prince. Jolson’s—Splendid Sunny. New Amsterdam—To be reviewed later, The Vagabond King. viewed later, Casino—To be re- Vanities of 1925. Earl Carroll—Julius Tannen and the girls. Customer: AND WHAT'S Th IDEA OF THAT ROW PF PADLOCKS BEHIND THE BAR? ~ Bartender: our STRIPES. WwouND comicbooks.com