Life — December 1, 1927 — page 64: what you’re looking at

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More or Less Serious Drama The Arabian, E/tinge—Well, there's this dark-skinned sort of chap who takes an interest in this girl. The kind of play Walker Whiteside writes for himself The Centuries. Playwrights'—To be reviewed later. Civic Repertory. Fourteenth St— The Eva Le Gallienne company in some- thing usually worth scei Coquette. Maxine Elliott — Helen Hayes superb in a beautiful little tragedy To be reviewed next week Dracula. = /u/ion—Complications in- dent to being bitte n the throat by a vampire (male). Fairly disturbing. An Enemy of the People. //a Good Ibsen, with Walter Hamp- den's den, Escape. Booth—Galsworthy’s epi- sodic account of Socicty’s chi after a crimir with Leslie Howard making it something to be scen. Four Walls. John Go! gangster’s struggle to keep o1 well acted but not always convincing. Hidden. Lycewm—A lady who has trouble with her repressions. Beth Merrill sIden — The of jail— is the d Philip Merivale the un- witting ¢ 1, Interference. npire — Good fashioned melodrama of the pc the-London-flat school, excellently p The Irish Players. Hudson—To be reviewed later, The Ladder. = Lyric — Considering what we could have done personally with the money which has been sunk in th we have a right to resent its cont The Letter. kK. Cornell lending distinction to harine undis- orosco — tinguished play of Maugham’s. New York. Mansficld—Awiul Nightstick. Selzyn—Good, fast-mov- ing crook melodrama. next week. Porgy. Republic—This is amet a success that the Th « it when the time pe Spellbound. To be reviewed atre Guild came Earl Carroll—Pauline Lord in s thing which should have been better. To be reviewed next week. The Spider. Music Box—Trick mur- der mystery which almost every one has seen by now Tia Juana. next wee The Trial of Mary Dugan. Notional More exciting than a real trial and Bijou—To be reviewed Women Go On Forever. Forrest— drab but at times poignant comic- tragedy, inarticulately fine. Comedy and Things Like That Abie’s Irish Rose. Bronx Opera House—It_ may be somewhere clse now, but it is always in our heart. And So to Bed. Shubert—Wallace Eddinger in a dramatization of a Pepys affair. To be reviewed next week. The Baby Cyclone. Henry Miller's —If you want a good giggle over nothing much at all, you can’t go wrong on this farce which has Grant Mitchell in it Behold This Dreamer. Cort—Glenn Hunter in an uneven comedy dealing with babbitts, insanity and, now and. then, beauty Broadway. Broadhurst—Still. show- ing the way. Burlesque. Plymouth — Back-stage love, rising to several excellent moments, especially where Hal Skelly is concerned. The Command to Love. Longacre— Fun on a sofa, or Life’s Sccret. Mary Nash and Basil Rathbone in their Class Play The Doctor’s Dilemma. be reviewed next week, The Fanatics. Forty-Ninth Talky but fairly entertaining play post-war morals Her First Affaire. Bayes—More talk about sex morality—very harmles Immoral Isabella. Rit. Fi AG something we Guild—To nces couldn't sit The ‘ivory Door. A Milne whimsey, with Henry the Whimscy King. The King Can Do No Wrong. Masque—With Lionel Atwill. To be re- viewed next week. The Marquise. Biltmore—With Billie Burke. To be reviewed next week. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Cen- tury—The Max Reinhardt production. To he reviewed next wee Much Ado About Nothing. -Imer- ican Laboratory—To be reviewed late The 19th Hole, Cohan — Frank Craven's entertaining golf comedy—with Frank Craven. The Road to Rome. Playhous Jane Cow! as the lovely matron who saved Rome—and how, The Shannons. Martin Beck—Some good comedy, a touch of pathos and some good old hoke—all swell. James Gleason Charles Hopkins— Hull as and Lucille Webster make it much better Take My Advice. Belmont—Pleas antly mild. The Taming of the Shrew. Garrick —Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis in a_plain- clothes version which improves on Shake- speare. Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Iiinter Garden —With Florence Moore, Ted Lewis, Jack Pearl and others. To be reviewed later. A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbilt —The Mark Twain modernized, with delightful music. The Desert Song. here. The Five O'Clock Girl. ‘ourth = St oe ar Shaw and Zaton ina & ‘Follies of 1927. Eddie Cantor in Mr show. Funny Face. Alvin—With the As- taires, William Kent and Victor Moore be reviewed later Golden Dawn, Haw reviewed later Good News. Forty-Sirth fast-dancing, excellent show Hit the Deck. Helasco. affected by competition Just Fancy. Casino—Very entertainment with Raymond Imperial—Still Forty Mary New Amsterdam— Zicgfeld’s biggest merstein’s—To be St—A ot much pleasant Hitchcock s chief comedian and the Santleys for cing. The Love Call. Majestic—Not one of the best. Manhattan Mary. <1 pollo- The Merry Malones. Er rs— George M. Cohan in a show of his own —like all his musical shows. The Mikado. Royole—A revival—with “Tolanthe” on My Maryland. il War. Rio Rita. Zicgfeld—Something nice to look at, with Walter Catlett, Ada May and Bert Wheeler for comedy Sidewalks of New York. Knicker- bocker—Ray Dooley in Eddie Dowling’s latest popular piece. Take the Air. viewed later. delightful Mondays Jolson's—Shuberts’ Waldorf—To be re Robert Benchley THE SILENT DRAMA GUIDE will be found on page 70. comicbooks.com