Life — January 5, 1928 — 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 newspapers the continuance of the attractions at the theatres mentioned. More or Less Serious L’Aigion. Cosmopolitan—The Rostand play, with Michael Strange, George Marion and Efhe Shannon. To be reviewed later. American Laboratory Theatre. East 5th St.— In repertory which is better than most little- theatre repertories. Behold the Bridegroom. Cort—With Judith Anderson and by George Kelly. To be reviewed later. Caste. Mansfeld—A dramatization of the Cosmo Hamilton novel, with Reginald Mason, Viviana Martin and others. To be reviewed next week. Civic Repertory Theatre. Fourteenth St—Eva Le Gallienne putting up a good fight for good drama at low prices. Coquette. Maxine Elliott's—Helen Hayes giv- ing a superb performance in a poignantly tragic play of youthful dalliance. Dracula, Fulton—Based on the cheery theory that some people don’t really die but go about at night nipping neighbors’ throats. A thought for the New Year. An Enemy of the People. Hampden's—With- out discontinuing his successful revival of Ibsen, Mr. Hampden is throwing in matinee perform- ances of “Hamlet” now. Escape. Booth—Galsworthy’s account of the flight of an escaped convict and the people he s. Leslie Howard plays the convict to per- Four Walls. John Golden—A considerably sen- timentalized story of an East Side gunman, with several excellent performances. Interference. Empire—Good acting making a real, old-fashioned London love-melodrama seem fresh. A. E, Matthews is particularly helpful. Irish Players. Gallo—Some of the finest acting in town and some of the finest plays. The Ladder. Belmont—The seats to this are going to be free until it is satisfactorily “revised.” So there is no need to hurry. Greenwich Village—A To be reviewed later. Nightstick. George M. Cohan—One of the first crook melodramas in which the police are the heroes. Paradise. Forty- reviewed next week. Porgy. Republic—Impressive pro- duction, with a Negro cast, and some- thing to be seen. The Prisoner. a Prisonniére.” Provincetown—X To be revie' The Racket. Ambassador—Gradc- A melodrama of Chicago cops and gorillas. Sisters. next week. The Trial of Mary Dugan. National —Better than a real murder trial be- cause there aren't so many lawyers. Trigger. Little—Claiborne Poster making something new out of our old friend, the wild mountain girl. What Do We Know? Woallack's— To be reviewed later. Comedy and Things Like That Abie'’s Irish Rose. Sometimes it just seems as if we covldn’t stand it, not having this around, Klaw—To be reviewed And Soto Bed. Bijon—Wallace Eddinger as Mr. Pepys in an amour which doesn't appear in the Diary. The Baby Cyclone. Henry Miller's—A farce, with Grant Mitchell, which is slight but funny. Banshee. Daly's—Comic melodrama. Bless You, Sister! Forrest—With Alice Brady. To be reviewed next week. Broadway. Broadhurst—Still the best in its own and several other classes. Burlesque. Plymouth—The story of a comic, his love affair and other troubles, told with a good dea! of eflectivencss. Celebrity. Lyceum—To be reviewed later. The Command toLove. Longacre—Mary Nash and Basil Rathbone in amorous skirmishes. Excess Baggage. Rits—With Miriam Hopkins and Eric Dressler. To reviewed later, Fallen Angels. Forty- Ninth St.—Noel Cow- ard’s London success, with Pay Bainter and Estelle Winwood making one scene lively, It Is to Laugh. Eltinge—A play by Pannie Hurst, with Edna Hibbard. To be reviewed later. The Ivory Door. Charles Hopkins nice for the holidays by A. A. M is the King who goes into Never: Los Angeles. week, The Love Nest. week. Something Henry Hull fever Land. Hudson—To be reviewed next Comedy—To be reviewed next Bilimore—Billie Burke in another trifle by Noel Coward. Paris Bound. Music Box—With Madge Ken- nedy. To be reviewed later. The Marquise. and to-morrow night- Restless Women. later The Road to Rome. Playhouse—Last week. aThe Royal Family. Selieyn—To be reviewed later. , The Shannons. Martin Beck—Some good saughs, several lumps in the throat and the Gleasons. Spring Song. Bayes—To be reviewed next week. Morosco—To be reviewed _The Ta of the Shrew. | Garrick—Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis making Shakespeare en- joyadle in modern dress. Venus. Masque—With Cissie Loftus, Patricia Collinge and Tyrone Power. To be reviewed later. Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Winter Garden—Good rowdy entertainment. Florence Moore, Jack Pearl, Jack Osterman and Ted Lewis. A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbili—The Mark Twain book brought up-to-date, with swell music. The Five O'Clock Gir! Forty-Fourth St—A dressy show, with Mary Eaton and Oscar Sha Also a couple of good tunes. Funny Face. Alrin—The Astaires, Victor Moore and William Kent in a whirlwind of dancing and Gershwin music. Golden Dawn. Hammerstein's — Something really pretentious in the way of operettas, Good News. Forty-Sixth St—One of the snap- piest shows in town Happy. Earl Carroli—Not so hot Harry Delmar's Revels. Shubert—Regulation revue which manages to maintain a pretty good average throughout. Prank Pay and Winnie Lightner. Hit the Deck. Belasco—Since April this has been proving that it is good entertainment. Lovey Dor be reviewed later. Manhattan Mary. 4 pollo—If you like Ed Wynn—and who doesn't? The Merry Malones. Erlanger’s— Mr. Cohan himself is in this, which makes it a little different from the other ten thousand. The Mikado, Royale—Your last chance to see Gilbert and Sullivan as it should be. My Maryland. — Jolson's—Good Shubert singing in Shubert Civil War costumes. She's Beatrice Lillie. Show Boat. viewed later. Sidewalks of New York. Kmicker- becker—Ray Dooley in a dancing show. Take the Air. Waldorf—A nice roduction with the high'y comical Win Mahoney. White Eagle. viewed later. Sam H. Harris—To My Baby. Globe—With He. To be re viewed later. Zuerfeld—To be re- Casino—To be re- Values ABLOID EDITOR: That's a whale of a good story. 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