Life, 1926-11-04 · page 22 of 40
Life — November 4, 1926 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a theater review guide for Broadway shows circa the 1920s, with one central cartoon. **The Main Cartoon:** A spiritualist medium (depicted with exaggerated features typical of period caricature) consults a client seeking guidance from "the Great Beyond." The spirit's response—"GO INTO YOUR TRANCE"—is a joke about fraudulent spiritualism: the medium has no actual supernatural connection, so they must manufacture a fake trance to maintain the illusion. **Context:** This satirizes the 1920s spiritualism craze, when séances and mediums were fashionable among the wealthy and gullible. The joke exposes spiritualism as performance theater rather than genuine contact with the dead. **The Reviews:** The surrounding text catalogs current Broadway productions, with brief, often caustic commentary on plays ranging from serious dramas to comedies. Notable is the enthusiastic endorsement of "Abie's Irish Rose" (a Jewish-Irish romance play that became a phenomenon). The page reflects 1920s entertainment culture and contemporary skepticism toward spiritual hucksterism.
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The Shanghai Gesture, “Foriy-Sisth Pew hg ina Chinese 1 supervision uf Florence Reed. The Woman Disputed. Forrest—A melodrama of war-time love and virtue; theatrical but effectiv Harding and Lowell Yellow. Nation Comedy and Things Like That Abie's Irish Rose. Republic—l we had owned one per cent. of this show, we wouldn't have to be thinking up | ws to say about it cach wee where! On the Riviera © Or even half of one per cent. At Mrs. Beam's. Gorric picture of a London board how unimportant this is. Broadway. Broadhw this, you wi (October 21). Daisy Mayme. Playhouse—George Kelly's new play. To be reviewed later. 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. Lyceum—Pannic in which she again ina play ould be some- Music Box—With Katharine To be reviewed late Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Walker, Ed in a good evening of ni! God Loves Us. viewed next we Gentle Grafters. Times Square— Loose Ankles. Hibbard and G. P. Huntley Hliott's—To be re- tive. Lmpire—A sirle of the sex prob swith Wa Spiritualist Medium (in a low voice): Tue WHAT'LL 1 po? Voice (from the Great Beyond): Go ixto your SISTER, GO INTO YOUR TRANCE. Henry—Behave! Baye: so funny as he ougl It IT Was Rich. middle-class ups and downs, Joe Laurie, Jr. judge's Husband. Forty old William Hodge business, The Lion Tamer. Neighborhood—Smart Prench satire, including an off-stage bed. Still an amusing ing-house in a ferment, The Blonde Sinner. Frolic—We can't tell you The Vagabond King. A type comedy of riven distinction by —If you can get into see the best show in town to date out—they alternate this with ‘The Little Clay Cart,” which hi The Little Spitfire. Cort—Involving one of thase cute no bed. je girls who ought to be publicly Biltmore—Partly amusing, not. A good lesson for ladies who rent heir dancing partners. On Approval. Gaiely—Entertaining Lonsd: ce Eddinger and a fine s: cast. To be reviewed next week. Sure-Fire. !eldor!—To be reviewed later. They All Want Something. !!ci- tack’s—Mr. Tilden could probably make more m under the guidance of Mr. Pyle. Two Girls Wanted. Litt—Pleasa’ 1 We Americans. Marris—Well-done comedy of melting-pot problems. To be reviewed next week. n entirely with the S f the Horse—among. other things. Winifred Lenihan, Tom Powers, William Norris and M. Kerrigan. To he reviewed in full next week, Eye and Ear Entertainment Americana. Belmont—A small but superior revue. Lew Brice and Roy Atwell. Castles in the Air. Selwyn—Very good of its kind—which is legion. Vivi- enne Segal and Bernard Granville. Countess Maritza. Shubert—An elad- orate opus from Vienna, with a_high- class score and Yvonne D'Arle, George Hassell and Walter Woolf. Criss-Cross. Globe—Pred Stone in a Pred Stone show. The Girl Friend. Vanderbdilt—One of the oldest, but also one of the best, scores in town. With Puck and White: The Great Temptations. Winter Gar- den—Regular Winter Garden stuff— only better. Jock Benny helps. Happy-Go-Lucky. Liberty—A fairly tepid evening. Taylor Holmes and Lina Abarbancll. Honeymoon Lane. K: Eddie Dowling in a regu! show, with good dancing—especially Florence O'Denishawn's. Tolanthe. Plymonth—In a class by itse! (Katja, Forty-Fourth St.—To be re- viewed later. Naughty Riquette. Cosmopolitan— ¢ customary Mitzying. A Night in Paris. Jolson—Diverting revue. Queen High. A mhassador—Good all- around al comedy, with Luella Gear, Prank McIntyre’ and Ch; Ruggtes. Raquel Meller. Henry Miller’s—Re- turn engagement of our Dream Girl The Ramblers, L.yric—The good old burlesquing of Clark McCullough Scandals of 1926, 1 pollo—Georg 's best show, which is saying a lot. Sunny. New Amsterdam—And then you can always see this again, you know Casino—Singing, very w very loud, Vanities of 1926. 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