Life — May 5, 1927 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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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 Barker. Biltmore—Life in a tent-show, with several interesting complications. Walter Huston heads a good cast. makes up for some of the rest of the play. James Rennie also helps. The Crown Prince. Spread Eagle. Martin Beck—A tense melo- drama showing War in the making. Some- thing to sce by all means, The Squall. Forty. Eighth St.—The sex urge in Sunny Spain. Pretty bad. The Thief. Rits—Alice Brady and Lionel Chicago. Music Box—A time- ly and bitter joshing of our criminal court procedure and allied journalism. Francine Larrimore as the popular mur- The Constant Wife. Maxine Elliott's—Ethel Barrymore at her comedy-best in a Maugham drawing-room. ‘The Devil in the Ch Ply. mouth—This gossamer bit seems to have had enough stayiny —To be reviewed later. The Gossipy Sex. Mansficld— With Lynn Overman. To be re- viewed next week. “HEH-HEH — WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SEX, MY DEAR?” “WHAT ARE sex?” Her Cardboard Lover. Empire—Jeanne Eagels in something which does not particularly suit her. Leslie Howard is more happily cast. _ Love Is Like That. Cori—Reviewed in this issue. Ned McCobb's Daughter. John Golden—A uses made into an interesting comedy with Carroll McComas. The Play's the Thing. Henry Muller’s—Hol. brook Blinn in an example of how to get away with salacity by being good-naturedly refined about it. Right You Are'If You Think You Are. Garrick— Pirandello fooling around with metaphysics and ible and entertaining. Saturday's Children. Booth—A charming com- Skelly and Desirée Tabor. To be reviewed ter. Countess Maritza. Jolson—Good Viennese masic. Walter Woolf, Odette Myrtil and Cari Randall. The Desert Song. Casino—Good all-around ‘Operetta. ivienne Segal and Eddie Buzzell, Hit the Deck. Belasco—Louise Groody, Peggy-Ann. different, and very nice. heads the cast. Queen High. Ambassador—Still Vanderbilt—Somethiny Helen Por deress. stepping along to catchy tunes. Luella “The Comic. Masque—With Gear, Prank McIntyre and Charles i C, Nugent and Patri ‘ole Ruggles. . unge. The Stork Is Dead. Selwyn—With Gertrude Vanderbilt, Victor Morley and Stanley Ridges. To be reviewed later. The Ramblers. Zyric—Considerable laughter incident to the presence of Clark and McCullough. Rio Rita. Ziegfeld—Some very nice stuff but chiefly for the S157 AGe May. the Howard Brothers. YX Truly. Shubert—Eh and entertainment’ trom ‘Leon Errol and Marion Harris. Caponsacchi, Hampden's—Walter Hampden good play and an interesting one, with fine per- things. Good exercise, | in costume. formances by Alfred Lunt and Clare Eames. The Road to Rome. Playhouse—Jane Cow! Crime. Times Square—A robbery scene that Night Hawk. Frolic— Glands and their making Hannibal's failure to capture Rome plaus- W Forrest—Very high-class : : ; lovee aad dyine eth Baal Sydney and Mary gy, dealing, sath young folks, who work for 4 writ Ellis participating. Slaner. Klew—P oi aa weeh ; wv, q un among. the road-houses : . Field God. Greenwich Village—A play by and in the home. A play which hardly justifies wait aul Green, who wrote “In Abraham's Bosom. its frankness, in spite of Allan Dinehart and “ With Fritz Leiber. To be reviewed later. Claiborne Poster. . Fog. National—A shipful of sinister things i i =—— least aaritin the teas” Should be ereopies than it Se tiae Forte Ninth St— Reviewed tn SN Fog-Bound. _Belmont—They have changed the Posies. RlikapésJuveatte’. ove railing, ati ae ending of this Nance O'Neil play since it opened. A gee raking, yon Now if they will change the frst part and the very clean and pleasant for a change. ara middle portions Two Girls Wanted. Littlh—Nice enough. of b The House of Shadows. Longacre—Mystery What Anne Brought Home. Wallack's—Mild. pain melodrama, with Tom Powers. To be reviewed diak next week. t Hi The Mystery Ship. Comedy—A good idea A elit written and acted like a bad one. Eye and Ear Entertainment with Seta Thief—. Lyceum—Murder and robbery Cherry Blossoms. Cosmopolitan—One of logu in familiar combination. those Japanese ones. Howard Marsh end 7 The Spider. Forty-Sixth St—Such a myste Desirée Ellinger. ; The show as you probably never have scen—but will The Circus Princess. Winter Garden— reall probably’ see many times after the imitators get Gloria Foy, Georges Hassell and Bickel, Hal as to work. ec Atwillina revival. To be reviewed next week. Charles King and Stella Mayhew. To be E Wall Street. Hudson—A romantic melo reviewed next week. drama. To be reviewed next week. Honeymoon Lane. Knickerbocker—Eddie The Wooden Kimono. Fulion—A Dowling and a show which a lange number of and thniler which manages to be comic people like. “Ver and creepy at the same time. Lady Do. Liberty—Based on a female : impersonator. Karyl Norman, with Nancy to si Welford and’ Lew Hearn. To be reviewed equa :, later, if ever. “ Comedy and Things LeMaire’s Affairs. Majestic—An evening- her « L : Th full of such entertainers as Lester Allen, Char- 1897 ike That lotte Greenwood and Ted Lewis. shat, ‘ j Lucky. New Amsterdam—Spectacular en- hal Abe's ges teeny Repellic he ¢ tertainment, with Walter Catlett. “Skeets” coucl gordieg to Broadway gossip, this show % Gallagher, Mary Eaton, Santley and Sawyer, is already ‘out of the red.” all ex- “1 \ Gallagher, Mery Eaton. Ses cour! penses paid, and is beginning to make z * 3 money. A Night in Spain. Forty-Fouyth St.—With at w Ww Phil Baker, Georgie Price, Brennan and pi gbroedwes sad Broadhurst = We Rogers. To be reviewed later. 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