Life, 1925-11-12 · page 23 of 41
Life — November 12, 1925 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is a **theater review and entertainment guide** from Life magazine, listing current Broadway productions with brief critical assessments. It's organized by tone: "More or Less Serious," "Comedy and Things Like That," and "Eye and Ear Entertainment." The reviews are satirical one-liners mocking plot summaries. For example, *Craig's Wife* is described as featuring "a woman with a house-fetish"; *The Green Hat* is dismissed as a "paper-backed novel bound in imitation morocco" (cheap binding). The large illustration below shows a dramatic scene: an older man in formal dress confronting two younger figures, with the caption about a "shortful, sad look" when "money wasn't everything." This likely critiques materialistic attitudes in Jazz Age society. The page reflects 1920s entertainment culture, with references to popular stars like George M. Cohan and Ethel Barrymore. Overall, it's a guide helping readers choose theater while poking fun at contemporary dramatic trends and social preoccupations.
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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—A nice point in legal cs, considered at considerable length by 11 Sothern, Adam Solitaire. ater. Craig's Wile. Morosco—Chrystal Herne as the woman with a house-fetish, in a play including playwrights, Provincetown—To be re- every d see. The Enemy. ed next week, The Glass Slipper. issue. The Green Hat. Broadhurst—A__paper- d novel bound in imitati: morocco. ine Cornell and an excellent cast give ction . _Hompden's—Ethel Barrymore and Hampden in the old Drury Lane one, Times Square—To be re Guild—Reviewed in The Last Night of Don Juan. Greenwich “Wloge—To be reviewed later. Lucky Sam McCarver. Playhouse—Re- wed tn this issue. A Man's Man. viewed in this issue. The Pelican. Plymouth—An_ interesting entation of the question of legitimacy, Margaret’ Lawrence furnishing the her Love. tolen Fruit, | Eltinge—Highly emotional carching by Ann Harding for her child, Jed by Rollo Peters. They Knew What They Wanted. K/ow— Last two weeks of this Pulitzer Prize winner alter a year's deserved success. The Vortex. Henry Miller’ Per inte, the sensational sritish heut-demi-monde. Comedy and Things Like That Abie's Irish Rose. Republic—See He- ews American Born, Hadson—Yankee-Doodle 4 with George M. Cohan himself thing out of nothing. Antonia, Empire—Reviewed in this issue. Applesauce. Ambassedor—Courtship aided long by a reading of the funny papers. Arabesque. Notional—Reviewed in Fifty-Second St. — Re "s—A_ dramatic goings-on in the this and the Man. Forty-Ninth St— n Fontanne and Alfred Lunt maxing up + the loss of the “Chocolate Soldier” score. Barefoot. Princess—No. The Butter-and-Egg Man. Longacre—The ny_side* of losing money on Broadway, h Gregory Kelly as the sucker, Candida. Comedy—Return engagement of ‘haw's satisfying comedy, with Peggy Wood Ia new cast. The Carolinian. Som H. Harris—To be reviewed later. Cradle Snatchers, Music Bor—We thought pretty revolting, but no one else seems to. Come, Easy Go. Cohan's—To be re- next week. The Grand Duchess and the Waiter. Ly. m—Elsie Ferguson in pleasantly light fare, Hay Fever. Maxine Elliott's—We were wrong about this having closed, and no one is happier about it, unless perhaps it is the management and cast. Eas; “The Jazz Singer. Cort—George Jessel in an account of Jewish worries which has turned into a hit. The Kiss in the Taxi. Bijou—French, and you know what the French are. Arthur yyron is very funny. Laff That Off. Iallack’s—To be reviewed later. The Last of Mrs. Cheney. reviewed later, The Man with a Load of Mischief. Rits— To be reviewed next week. Outside Looking In. Thirt This hobo comedy is so good to move it uptown. The Poor Nut. taining college stuff. The School for Scandal. Little—Sheridan taken up socially. These Charming People. Gaicty—Cyril Maude and Edna Best in smart sayings by Michael Arlen. Weak Sisters. Booth—Pretty raw meat, but strangely inoffensive 1a: LOURE Woodley. Belmont—To be reviewed ater. Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Winter Garden— Paris, including the Hoffmann Girls, in New York, including Phil Baker Big Boy. Forty-Fourth St. named Al Jolson, making g Captain Jinks. Martin Beck—Very pleas. ant. Fulton—To be y-Ninth St that they had Forty-Eighth St.—Enter- ‘A newcomer, Charlot's Revue. Sclwyn—To be reviewed later. The City Chap. next week. Dearest Enemy. Knickerbocker—Good to look at, which means Helen Ford, too. Garrick Gaieties, Garrict—Smart summer revue, which doesn’t seem to know that sum- mer is over. Gay Paree. Shubert—Ch Grand Street Follies. parody outline of last season’s those who know. Holka Polka. German. music, Harrold. Kosher Kitty Kelly. long way uptown. Louie the 14th. lar and Leon Errol. Merry, Merry. Vanderbilt—Nice and inti- mate. No, No, Nanette, Globe—Don't, tell me you haven't sung “Tea for Two" in the shower-bath, Princess Flavia. Century—To be reviewed later Rose-Marie. Imperial—Time to go again. The Student Prince. hear them singing from here. Sunny. New Amsterdam—More stars than Xpu,ca0 shake Sve-fifty at, including Marilyn Miller. The Vagabond King. eretta. Vanities of don't like Tannen. When You Smile. Liberty—To be reviewed its, done for Lyric—Real old-fashioned sung by Orville and Patti Daly's—It's quite a Cosmopolitan—Spectacu: Jolson's—You can Cosino—A real op 1928. Eerl Carroli—lf you girls there is always Julius Central—Only fair. “THAT'S IT, YOUN: MONEY WAS? FELLAH, EXACTLY! A KIND OF A THORTPUL, SAD LOOK—AS Is Zat So? Chanin’s—Still just about as * 5 , * 'T EVERYTHING, IT’S A LOOK I OFTEN "AVE WHEN I'M ALONE,’ full of laughs as anything in town. comicbooks.com