Life — May 19, 1927 — page 24: 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. i rra’s Spanish Art Theatre. Forrest—Last More or Less Serious week of imported. repertory. in ‘Spanish bat The Barker. Biltmore—Life in a tent-show, teresting. . which turns out to be like life anywhere else, only The Spider. Forty-Sixth St.—A mystery play louder... Well done. phich wall probably ‘be remembered (and imi- A ni ailocdn ated) for several seasons. . with Walter Hampden as the star. ipoed melodrama with good new-tashioned satire. Crime. Times Square—Inside dope on how to The “Squall.” Forty-Lighth St.—The way of rob a store, including an exciting di 500. -w gyney eoald with esveral euscepillile men Nok Otherwise just fair, worth watching. i bia e 8 The Field God. Greenwich Village—P. The Thief. | Rits—Alice Brady and Li }reen, the author of this, just won the Pul: Atwill in a revival of the old Bernstein pi Prize, ‘with his “In Abraham's Bosom.” Well done, but why? one, however, is not so good. Triple-Crossed. Morosco—Mystery The House of Shadows. Longacre—Tom _be reviewed next week. Powers in one of many mystery shows. Wall Street. Hudson—The old story of how e Ladder. ‘aldorf—The managem miserable rich men are. Done on a revolving gine, Ladder, | Waldorl—Th le rich I offers: each week for the best essay on t Stage but otherwise musty. play. Here is one for nothing. The Wooden Kimono. Fulfon—A mixture of e Mystery Ship. Comedy—A good idea hair-raising ingredients, some of which are effec- handled like a bad one. tive. No love-making in this one, either. Ty 4 little more} to yer left! Everyday Deeds That Pass Unsung LOOKING FOR THAT LAST TOOTH TO COMPLETE THE DINOSAUR, Comedy and Things Like That Abie's Irish Rose. Republic—Pive years old on Sunday. Somehow we've lost interest by now, Broadway. Broadhurst—Splendid ents rtain. ment. Chicago. Music Box—Very timely spoofing at our tendency to sentimentalize crime and believe the newspapers. The Constant Wife. Maxine Fuliot's—Rthel Barrymore's dish. The Devil in the Cheese. Plymonth—A whi 1 peep into a maiden’s mind. Pantastic and 2. The Gossipy Sex. Mansfeld—Lynne 0: man making a moderately good comedy am Her Cardboard Lover. Empire—Pretty © ventional French stuff, with Jeanne Eagels not 80 happil as Leslie Howard. Love Is Like That. Cor!—Not very good. Mixed Doubles. Bijou—Margaret. Lawrence in something pretty terrible. _ Mr. Pim Passes By. Garrick—Laura Hope Crews in a revival of Milne’s pleasant stor Ned McCobb's Daughter. Golden—A ¢: play. very well done. | Alfred Lunt as the boc legger, Clare Eames as the Yankee superwor The Play's the Thing. Henry Miller’ humorous trifle by Molnar enlivened by re ribaldry and a good performance by frotbre Blinn and associates. Pygmalion. Guild—The Theatre Guild giv Shaw a good run for his mor The Road to Rome. layhouse—History in- terpreted in terms of sex-appeal, with Jane Cowl as interpreter—all of which 1s as it should be Saturday's Children. Booth—Ruth Gordon as the young wife who figures out things for herself in a delightful play of household economics. Sinner, Klaw—Marital infidelity among younger set. participated in by Claiborne Fi and Allan Dinehart. Tommy. Eltinge—Juvenile heartaches with attendant complications. Pleasantly innocuous, Two Girls Wanted. Little—Quite all nght i you are not exacting. What Anne Brought Home. 1allack"s—Still running, for some reason or other. Eye and Ear Entertainment Cherry Blossoms. ~ Cosmopolitan—Not far from the average Japanese operetta. The Circus Princess. Winter Garden—Re- viewed in this issue, The Gocoanuts. | Century—Tho Marx Brother back after a winter's trouping in a show which is still very funn Countess Maritza. Jolson—Good Viennese music. The Desert Song. Casino—Satisfactory in est every way. With Vivienne Segal and Eddie Buzzell. Hit the Deck. Belasco—Reviewed in this issue. Honeymoon Lane. Knickerbocker—That are many people who like this show of Dowling’s immensely is shown by the fact that it is one of the season's hits. Lady Do. Liderty—Only fai Le Maire's Affairs. Majestic—Lester Allen at his best and Charlotte Greenwood at hers in a rather full evening, with Ted Lewis included. Lucky. New Amsterdam—A pretty good show with a lot of features, including Paul Whitem: Walter Catlett and “Skeets” Gallagher furnish the comedy. . ‘A Night in Spain. — Forty-Fourth St.—With Phil Baker. To be reviewed next week. Oh, Ernest! Royele—“The Importance of Being Earnest” made into a musical show. To be reviewed later. Oh, Kay! | Imperial—The class musical comedy of the season. Gertrude Lawrence, Victor Moore and Oscar Sha Peggy-Ann. — Vanderbil show which combines very pretty music with aa entertaining book. Queen High. ° Ambassador—This one seems able to run along indefinitely with Luella Gear, Prank McIntyre and Charles Ruggles. Rio Rita. Ziegseld—A beautiful show to look at, especially when the ballet ison. Ada May. Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler for comedy Scandals. A pollo—George White showing the rest of the revue producers (by the way, who are they now?) how to do it. : Yours Truly. Shuber!—Leon Errol in a well- turned-out show with Marion Harris's voice as a special attraction. WwW impli sophi melod wortl laugh that big ¢ Kalm at an: (here sional dead uy the 1 derin; also | nefor the Q j An that | we di Webs! he dic No makes the m hight, all tl funny he hir (and comed book tad t comicbooks.com