Life — April 28, 1927 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Owing to the time it takes to print Lire, readers should verify from the daily continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. newspapers the More or Less Serious The Barker. Biltmore—Life in its more ine tense phases under the tent of a ballyhoo show. Caponsacchi. Hampden's—This was recently awarded a prize by the Theatre Club for being the season's best play. In the same plebiscite, “Broadway” and “The Ladder” tied for fourth place. Judge for yourself. Civic Repertory Theatre (14th St.)\—The last week of Eva Le Gallienne’s successful season. Crime. Times Square—James Rennie as the gentlemanly leader of a gang of very smart robbers. The Crown Prince. Forrest—Royal love and death (in uniform). Basil Sydney and Mary Tis. Fog. National—A boatload of people terribly frightened at something. adrift in the to 4 og-Bound. Belmoni—Nance O'Neil suffering among the sand-dunes. The House of Shadows. Loncacre—Mystery melodrama. To be reviewed later. The Jazz Singer. Century—George Jessel, back from the provinces, for another week’ of his heart-interest drama of fidelity. The Mystery Ship. Comedy—At the bottom of the list. Savages Under the Skin. Greenwich Village— How about a good game of bridge? Set a Thief—. Lyceum—Good regulation stuff, dealing with the conventional sliding-bookcase. The Spic Forty-Sixth St.— By long odds the most ingenious mystery show of this—or any other season, Spread Eagle. Martin Beck—A melodrama so satisfying in its satirical import that, if we had money, we would subsidize it as a perennial in- stitution for the prevention of war. The Squall. Forty-Eighth St— Almost the onl: “serious” sex play left in town, and not worth keeping. e Thief. Rits—Alice Brady in a revival of the old-timer. To be reviewed later. Wall Street. Hudson—To be reviewed later. The Wooden Kimono. Fulton—Burlesque thriller with several moments of real excitement. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Republic—''I have loved you ever since that first night when we met at the Duke's ball—out there under the mag- nolias.” (Exit frowning.) Broadway. Broadhurst—You won't find a more satisfactory show—if good shows are what you want. Chicago. Music Box—A delicious piece of satirical kidding at the expense of our national weaknesses—murder and publicity. The Constant Wife. Maxine Elliott's—Some- thing very nice for Ethel Barrymore. The Devil in the Cheese. Charles Hopkins— Pleasant fantasy. Hearts Are Trumps. this issue. Her Cardboard Lover. Empire—Moderately amusing Prench comedy, witb a moderately good performance by Jeanne Eagels and an excellent one by Leslie Howard. Love Is Like That. Cor!—With Basil Rath- bone and Lucile Watson. To be reviewed nest week. Night Hawk. Frolic—An interesting thesis, at any rate the use of glands on a streetwalker. ne Glorious Hour. Selwryn—To be reviewed next week. The Play's the Thing. Henry Miller’s— Funny in spots and bawdy in others, but always gentlemanly. Holbrook Blinn heads the cast. Right You Are If You Think You Are. Garrick —Pirandello having fun with metaphysics. The Road to Rome. Playhouse—Jane Cowl embodying every reason in the world for Hanni- bal’s change of heart before Rome. Saturday's Children, Booth—A comedy so teasant that you don't realize how true J is. uth Gordon as the young wife who thinks things out for herself. ; _ The Second Man. Guild—Reviewed in this issue. Sinner, Klaw—Cheating among the nicer sort of married people. Claiborne Foster and Allan Dinehart make up one couple. Thurston, the Magician. Ceniral—You know Thurston, the Magician. The Tightwad. Forty. Ninth St—To be re- viewed next week. Tommy. — Eltinge—Entertaining and entirely proper complications arising from a youth's being in love with a maiden. Two Girls Wanted. Littl—Nice enough. What Anne Brought Home. — Wailack's— Mildly harmless. Morosco—Reviewed in Janus Gets a Perfect Score Eye and Ear Entertainment Bye, Bye, Bonnie. Cosmopolitan—What is known as “peppy” entertainment, with lots of dancing. Cherry Blossoms. — Forty-Fourth St-—Just hat you would expect an operetta named herry Blossoms” to be. The Circus Princess. reviewed later. Countess Maritza. music. The Desert Song. Casino—Vivienne Segal and Eddie Buzzell. One of the best. Hit the Deck. Belasco—To be reviewed later, Honeymoon Lane. Knickerbocker—Edi! Dowling’s gold mine. Lady Do. Liberty—To be reviewed later. Le Maire’s Affairs. Majestic—To be reviewed next week. Lucky. New Amsterdam—Walter Santley and Sawyer, Mary Eaton, and Gallagher. A big and beautiful show. Ob, Kay! Imperial—Gertrude Lawre: Victor, Moore and Oscar Shaw. One of season's class musicals. Peggy-Ann. Vanderbili—Helen Ford and Lulu McConnell, A new type of book, with some of the prettiest music in town. Queen High. — Ambassador—Luella G: Frank McIntyre and Charles Ruggles. A music version of “A Pair of Sixes,” with nice music, The Ramblers. Lyric—Clark and McCullough in their own particular brand of burlesque. Rio Rita. Ziegfeld—Spectacular, expensive and with some very fine ballet work. Ada Ma: Robert Woolsey, and Bert Wheeler. Scandals. Apollo—The last word in big revues, kindness of George White. . Vanities. Earl Carroll—We are so blinded by affection for Moran and Mack that all we know about the rest of this one is that Julius Tan is in it. Yours Truly. Shubert—A show of the Zic type. with Leon Errol and Marion Harris. } Harris's voice alone makes it an evening's enter- tainment. Winter Garden—To be Jolson—Nice imported Let B high Lun stud Lyn Maii scier ever Kar: Core shou gooc to b it in duly itsel thar seet com comicbooks.com