Life — April 22, 1926 — page 23: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

A Group of Three HOSE hardy playgoers who survived “The Cat and "Tie Canary” a few seasons ago will be glad to know at th azzler, Mr. Kilbourn Gordon, has ther little device with alternating currents, same nerve: rigged up a whereby the sitter is enabled to shock himself into in- minutes, He has called it “K “Kongo” is probably ever written. has every knowr sensibility every f go. of the least convincing plays t one line of the dialogue rings t It shred of hokum that ever was crammed doo melodrama, And yet s into a ve happens to your spine every so often lay it to the draughts in th there it is—w although you may t “White C ’ and “Cape Smoke” over very little 1 spite of yourself. You can , but heatre or to wet shc the specialists call a positive reaction. And yourself that this is nothing but you have ink tc yn to go home until i over —_ & ——— ERHAPS it is the charming premise on which “Kongo” fed that keeps y rested. At the rise of the curtain we have the f g Barrie-like characters ntasy : Flint (Walter Hust who is paralyzed from the hips down and who drags self across the floor tain Mr. K eyes watching him from bus! is fo assembled for the f. im: ering maledictions against a cer 7 (who later shoots himself to escape Negro s); Dr. Kingsland, the hero, 1 for whom a temporary cure is effected by cutting his shoulder and burying him who is addicted hasheesh up to his neck in the swamp for the leeches to drain Annie, the heroine, who has, in romping about the trading -lac or racted a mysterious ailment called which affects th posts, something, stomach-tissues ut which and Whippy, tl comic, who has a police record and a floating kidn Peter Pan docs not appear, but you Tinker Bell « turns out to be no worse than a bad ca ey. stage, This is the way “Kongo” begins. From then any- thing goes. But we x like to know how Flint got up on the roof-tree at the end of the second act. I" is refreshing to see a revival of an old-timer which is not done in a spirit of sophisticated kidding. “The Two Orphans,” as played by an “all-star” cast at the Cosmo- B77 V7. KS res in politan, is done with as a if it were If you want te h The necessity to 1 bit onerous. S a matter of fact, we ! t of the older members of the all-s re their hearts delighted with themselves a they have to deliver. S » not seem averse to the es newsy raine Wilton Jos Ruben, William Seymour, May Robson, Henrietta Cros man, Florence Nash and Mrs, Whiffen If for nothing more than as a museum piece, “The T WE bre never Well, she effect. 1 Miss Brady of this or any As the sy over the per ungry ecst gives a truly remarkable perfor’ fir [? is also gra preacher who is ¢ er hype sincere worker in the vineyard tough odds. And. Cl ‘ains her title as port mai able children. It Freud long ¢! long run. to be h to give comicbooks.com