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This page is a theater listing and review guide from Life magazine, circa mid-1920s. The cartoon illustrates the page's humorous social commentary about language and class distinctions. **The Cartoon:** Shows a working-class woman (indicated by her appearance and manner of dress) speaking to a more refined woman. The caption depicts a dialect-heavy confrontation about proper English: the working-class character insists she said nothing wrong, but the refined woman corrects her grammar regarding the use of the article "a." **The Satire's Point:** This mocks the rigid class-consciousness of 1920s America, where proper English pronunciation and grammar served as markers of social status. The joke ridicules both the pretentiousness of those who police language and the defensiveness of those judged by it—a common theme in Life's satirical commentary on American social hierarchies. The theater listings below represent Broadway's diverse offerings, from serious drama to vaudeville, reflecting the era's thriving theatrical culture.

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19 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 F, H, Sothern in Bniess's dialectic drama of a lawyer's con science. Worthy but rather difficult, Arabesque. National — To be reviewed The Call of Life. Com ‘o be re viewed next week. Craig's Wife. Morosco—To reviewed next week. The Crooked Friday. Bijou—Reviewed in s Squar be re The Green Hat. Broadhurst — Elegant and purple sinning in Mayfair, maac most gentine by Katharine Cornell and an ent cast. Han —Walter Hampden wl Ethel Barryn in that sketch of Shakespeare's ky Sam McCarver. Playhouse—To be wed later. The Pelican. Plymouth—Margaret Law € mother love which has its mo- en Fruit. Eltinge—Reviewed in this t They Wanted. Kiaw with confused paternity te, admirably acted by Leo Carrillo and Glena An ne Vortex. Henry Miller’s—Noel Cow- in his own drama of small people. at * interesting and at times downright go. Wallack’s—What seems t | warning against staying ou i hot African sun, Comedy and Things Like That Abie's Irish Rose. Republic—So's your American Born. this issue, Hudson — Reviewed in lesauce. A mbossador—Routine courtship and marriage. Arms and the Man. Forty-Ninth St.— Lyoa Fontanne and Alfred Lunt adding just wlot is needed to Shaw's medium-strong jokes Barefoot. Princess—To be reviewed later. The Butter-and-Egg Man. Longacre—A sbly amusing arrangement of Broadway teuletalk, with Gregory Kelly as the man wb» puts’ up the money. Cradle Snatchers. Music Bos—Three caged women hire three young men ike their husbands jealous.” Use your instincts in the matter. Mary Boland ene of the women. Easy Come, Easy Go. reviewed later. t T he Glass Slipper. Guild—To be reviewed Cohan's—To be The Gorilla, Sehtey#—Loudly humorous melodrama. The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, Ly: rve—To be reviewed next week. Zat So? Chanin's—Tough conversation vis very funny. The Jazz Singer. Fulton—George Jessel’s harscterization of the worried Jewish boy ms to have become a definite fixture for the season; and not without reason. The Kiss in the Taxi, Rits—French farce which is made more than that by Arthur Byron's dei.ghtiul comedy A Lady's Virtue. Thirty-Ninth St— he reviewed later. Lovely, Lady. Be/mont—To be reviewed next week, A Man's Man. reviewed next week. Outside Looking In. Gree Tramps in a box-car, and a Fifty-Second St—To be ich Village-— od thing to The Poor Nut. Forty-Eighth St-—Happy Days at Ohio State Univers The School for Scandal. ittl-—To be re viewed later. These Charming People. Guirty Re viewed in this issue. Weak Sisters. Booth—To he reviewed next week: Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Winter Garde Those versatile Hoffmann rls and Phil Baker making a good all-around revue. ypBis Boy. Forty-Fourth St—At Jolson at home. Captain Jinks. Martin = Beck—A nice mus.calization of the old favorite. The City Chap. later, Liberty—To be reviewed Dearest. Enemy. Knickerbocker—Helen Ford and Charles Purcell in a lovely thing to look at and very easy to hear. Garrick Gaieties. Garrick—A_revue which so good that it is keeping Shaw out, of Barrick, c Gay Paree. Shubert—Chic Sale is in tt, whch ought to be enough. Grand Street Follies. — Neighborhoo: Smart foolng with last season's successes, Holka Polka. Lyric—To be reviewed later. Louie the 14th. Cosmopoliten Errol in a sumptuous spectac Merry, Merry. Vanderbilt—Intimate and No, No, Nanette. Giob n't tell me you don't know the music. Rose-Marie. Imperial—They don't come any better than t Scandals of 1925. Apoll $s of young ladies—or Ss, as you will, The Student Prince. J. —George White's ung ladies of w's—If you like DrUses, Marilyn Mil. Sunny. N¢ Imsterdam ler and dozens of other stars in your money's worth, abond King. ( o—A credit to of 1925. Earl ‘annen in a setting of girls. When You S Central—Not so good. Carro Julius SWS SS = SSS SSS SS YOU DON'T SAY! “WOT I SAYS, MRS. TIBBLE: KNOWN WOT SHE ME. , IS—IF SHE HADN'T SAID NOTHIN’ YoU WOULDN'T 'a’ NT; BUT NOW YOU KNOW SHE COULDN'T ’A’ MEANT WOT SHE DID SAY comicbooks.com