Life — February 2, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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More or Less Serious _ American Laboratory Theatre. Fast Sath St-— Small but sometimes interesting. See papers for repertory Behold the Bridegroom—. Cor!—The sad story of a woman who was not ready for her Big Mo- ment when it came. Judith Anderson plays the Woman and George Kelly wrote it. Caponsacchi. Iam pden's—Walter_ Hampden has got out his costumes again is reviving this successful romantic drama of last season, Carry On. Masgue—To be reviewed later. Civic Repertory Theatre. Fourteenth | St This is the Eva Le Gallienne company you hear nu da very worthy project it is, ce daily papers for repertory _ Coquette. Marine Fitiott’s—Helen Ha ing you something splendid to cry about. Diversion. Forty- Ninth St-—Reviewed in this issue. Dracula. Fulton—Some rather suspicious go- ings-on among dead people and eene animals. You may be frightened and you may not. Escape. Booth—Le: Howard Gals- worthy's exciting account-of Society's’ reactions to an escaped convict 57 Bowery. Wallac The International, Pla this issue. The Ladder. Belmont—The seats to this are owing to the producer's gluttony for punish- nt. This imposes no obligation on you, es give To be reviewed later. ights'—Reviewed in 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. Broadhurst—With To be reviewed The Merchant of Venice. George Arliss and Peggy Wood. next week. Nightstick. with noble po! The Patriot. Cokan—Good melodrama, dealing en for a change. Majestic—With Madge Tit adge. To be reviewed next week. Porgy. Republic—Negroes in an epic of Negro life a Southern city, One of the “worth- while” things in town. The Prisoner. Provincetown—An earnest ef- fort but, on the whole, much more than that. The Racket. Ambastador—Excellent melo- drama dealing with the business of being a cop in Chicago. Salvation. pire—With Pauline Lord. To be reviewed later. _ The Silver Box. Morosco—Reviewed in this issue. Strange Interlude. John Golden—Eugene O'Neill's latest, with Lynn Pontanne, Tom Powers and others. To be reviewed later. The Trial of Mary Dugan. Nationcl—A mur- der trial which ought to hold the interest of almost anybody. Comedy and Things Like That The Baby Cyclone. Henry Miller’s—Grant Mitchell in a farce which manages to be very funny over a small dog. Broadway. Century—Now at “popular prices” —as if the old prices weren't popular. a | ee | — : “You are accused of murder. “No, Your Honor, the tabloid newspapers are conducting my defense.” Have you an attorney?” Burlesque. Plymouth—The course of true love back-stage in a burlesque show made into a play with some excellent moments. Cock Robin. Forty-Eighth St—Reviewed in this issue. The Command to Love. Longacre—Mary Nash and Basil Rathbone maintaining diplomatic peace in Europe and having fun at the same time. A Distant Drum. Hudson—To be reviewed next week. The Doctor's Dilemma. Guild—Shaw’s rather lengthy but highly bearable comedy, admirably done. Excess Baggage. that we are taken one novelty feature. The Ivory Door. Charles Hopkins—Some- thing pretty whimsical which is all right first hour or so because A. A. Milne wrote The Medicine Show. Privcess—To be te- viewed later. Mirrors. Forrest—To be reviewed next week. _ Paris Bound. Music Box—Madge Kennedy in one of the town's few really distinguished comedies. The Queen's Husband. viewed next week. The Royal Family, Selwyn—The home life of 8 patrician family of actors made into a deliht- fully witty pla: The Shannons. Martin Beck—The Gleasons in a good mixture of practically everything So Am I. Comedy—To be reviewed later The Taming of the Shrew. ich—Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis, in modern dress, seem to have solved the problem of how to make people like Shakespeare. | We Never Learn, Eltinge—To be reviewed later. Rits—Now it is vaudeville back-stage at, with at least Playhouse—To be re Eye and Ear Entertainment Artists and Models. Winter Garden —Pic Moore, Jack Osterman, Jack Pearl and Ted in the best of the series. _A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbilt—The Mark Twain book set to delightful music. Wiliam Gaxton and Constance Carpenter. The Five O'Clock Girl. Forty-Fourth Si—A couple of nice tunes, a general atmosphere of class and Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. Funny Face. Alrin—Some swell dancing t the Astaires to Gershwin music, and Victor Moore and Willam Kent as comics. Golden Dawn, Hammerstein's — Something high-class in operettas, with real singing. Good News. Forly-Sixth Si—Setting the pace for speed and zip. Happy. Earl Carroll—One of the series lege musical comedies based on jokes in College Humor. Harry Delmar's Revels. Shuberi—Prank and his associates in a routine but amusing show Harry Lauder. Knickerbocker—For a limited engagement. Hit the Deck. Belasco—What is getting to be known as an “old favonte” now , Lovely Lady. Sam H. Harri in a chow built especially’ for her. Manhattan Mary. A follo—Ed Wynn at the top of his form, The Merry Malones. Erlanger’s—Much the same asa lot of others, even more so, George M Cohan is in it, however. My Maryland. Jolson's—Some good sing’ in Civil War costumes. The Optimists. Century Roof—To be viewed later, Rosalie. next week. She’s My Baby. Globe—Por Beatrice L fanciers—as who isn't? Show Boat. Zicefeld—Something elegant, in productions, with Charles Winninger, Helen Mor gan and Norma Terris. Also some fine spirituals sung by Jules Bledsoe. Take the Air. Waldorf—Will Mahoney being very comical indeed. White Eagle. Casino—Good, reputable musi- cal comedy, though nothing to go crazy over. Edna Lee New Amsterdam—To be reviewed F I’ we Sily and Int elev slec 1 thoi litt] all whic as ¢ the Tru mat 1 Wro ther brit If “tey T' We sinc chee his comicbooks.com