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This page is a theater review section from *Life* magazine. The central cartoon—captioned "Terms Cash"—satirizes Prohibition-era speakeasy culture. It depicts a bartender (right) confronting what appears to be an undercover Prohibition agent or police officer (left, seated). The joke's caption reads: "Suppose a dry cop comes in?" with the proprietor's response: "Make him pay for what he gets. No free drinks to anybody." The humor relies on several 1920s references modern readers would miss: 1. **"Dry cop"** = police officer enforcing Prohibition laws 2. **The speakeasy setting** = illegal bars operating during Prohibition (1920-1933) 3. **The satirical point** = even law enforcement pays for drinks at illegal establishments; no one gets special treatment, even those supposedly shutting down speakeasies The cartoon mocks both the ubiquity of illegal drinking and the apparent complicity or corruption of enforcement agents during Prohibition.

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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 The Donovan Affair. Fulton—Detective play Owen Davis. with Robert T. Haines and Phoebe Foster. To be reviewed later. The Ghost Train. Eltinge—Mystery melo- drama by Arnold Ridley, with Eric Blore and Gypsy O'Bri To be reviewed next week. The Great God Brown. Klaw—Euge: O'Neill's praiseworthy attempt to dramatize the back-firings of the human A little hazy times, but always interest The House of Ussher. Muyfair—Mildly en- grossing. Nothing to do with the P. Lulu Belle. Belasco—Lenore Ulr calorific representation of a colored wench of road to ruin, ably supported by Henry Hull. One Man's Woman. Forty-Fighth St—Just so much hooey. Sex. Daly's—Not even as good as its title. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic—Don't be silly — the whole thing is done by x placed mirrors. The Adorable Liar. Forty-N St—With Tom Wise. Dorothy Burgess and Eric Dressler. To be reviewed later. At Mrs. Beam's. London boarding-how psetting of a ious charac- ters, played by Estelle Winwood and Earle Larimore. Cradle Snatchers. Music Bor—Our opposition to this farce has practically limited its New York run to one solid year. Henry, Behave! Bayes—Farce comedy by Lawrence Langner. th John Cumberland and Mary Walsh. To be reviewed next week, The Home-Towners. Hudson—By George M. Cohan, with Wil liott. Robert McWade and Georgia Cain To be reviewed next week. The Little Spitfire. Cort—With Sylvia Field and Russell Mack. To be reviewed later. boot Ankles. Biltmore—To be reviewed next week. My Country, Forty-Sixth St—Advertised as “another “Abte’s Irish Rose.’ "We doubt if we ever see it. Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives. Rito—By gue Glass, with Ludwig Satz and Robert Leonard. To be reviewed next week. Service for Two. Gaiety—By Martin Plavin, with Marion Coakley and Hugh Wakefield. To < reviewed lai She Couldn't Say No. Booth—With Florence Moore. To be reviewed later. Sunshine, Lyric—If an antidote for last season's sex plays, let's get right back to the sex plays. What Every Woman Knows. Bijou—Helen Hayes still helping Barrie forget the loss of Maude Adams. Terms Cash ~ Eye and Ear Entertainment Americana. Belmont—Reviewed in this issue. Garrick Gaieties. Gorrich—Pleasant kidding rent_ weaknesses, by the youngsters of the heatre Guild, The Girl Friend. — Vanderdil!—Still_one of the best scores in town, with Puck and White to sing and dance to it, The Great Temptations. Winter Garden—A big show, containing “Valencia” and the amusing Jack Benny. Tolanthe. Plymouth—What a Gilbert and Sullivan revival ought to be. Kitty’s Kisses. Playhouse—Not unless dancing means everything to you. A Night in Paris. Forty-Fourth St.—A diverting combination of French and American frow-frou. Queen High. Ambassador—To be reviewed Inter. In the cast are Prank McIntyre, Luella Gear and Charles Ruggles. Sunny. New Amsterdam—Whatever the new seacon brings out, it will have to go considerably to beat this one of Marilyn Miller's. The Vagabond King. Cosino—Prankly, this one can go now any time it wants to, It's a good show and has good singing, but a year is a year. Vanities of 1926. Earl Carroll—Reviewed in this issue. Ziegfeld, Revue. | Globe—A very pleasant fe evening. what with James Barton, Dootey, Andrew Tombes and a glorified chorus. New Bartender: surpose A DRY COP COMES IN? Proprietor: MAKE HIM PAY FOR WHAT HE GETS. NO FREE DRINKS TO ANYBODY. and comicbooks.com