Life — May 10, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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Conti dential L 6 Bee ABO » DRAMA More or Less Serious Coquette. Maxine Elliott—Helen Hayes giving one of the outstanding performances of the year in a tender little tragedy. Diamond Lil. Royale—Mae West going very Bowery in a play written by herself. Dracula. Fulton—Now the dean of the spine- chillers and also the most devilish in its conception. The Ladder. bother, Bdmont—Free seats but don't The Mystery Man. Bayes—Not much one way or the other. The Outsider. Ambassador—One of the few propaganda plays which have real dramatic value and love interest. Admirably acted by Isobel Elsom and Lionel Atwill. The Scarlet Fox. Masque—That clever and inde- fatigable Sergeant Devlin once more advertises the Royal Canadian Mounted, Very good entertain- m The Silent House. Morosco—Allan Dinebart and Helen Chandler in a creepy treasure hunt, Chinese touches add to the mystery. Strange Interlude. Golden—A woman with the her emotions furnishes Eugene O'Neill I for a five-hour play. Time Lynn Fontanne and a grand Guild Wallack’s—Revival of he barnstormers tried ts in a Barroom. . showing how to put over Prohibition. The Trial of M room during a murd removed. Ann Har Dugan. National—The court- ler trial with all the dull features in the box. Comedy and Things Like That The Bachelor Father. Belasco—Threc tempera- mental children—the wages of sin—come home to keep their erring father company. | June Walker and Geoffrey Kerr are the high spots in this cheery Plymouth—Hal Skelly and Barbara Burlesque. que team who make it difficult Stanwyck as a b for love to find a way. A good show. The Happy Husband. Empire—With Billie Burke and A. E. Matthews. To be reviewed later. The Ivory Door. Charles Hopkins—Realists keep out! A. A. Milne evidently wrote this for people who still believe in fairies. Our Betters. smartly bitter even smarter. Paris Bound. marital infidel Henry Miller-—Mr. Maugham’s omedy, with Ina Claire to make it Music Bor—The lighter side of —and what are you going to do about it? Sophisticated comedy, with Madge Kennedy. The Queen's Husband. Playhouse—Roland Young as one of the quicter kings, who nevertheless packed quite a wallop on occasion. Good, rousing entertainment, The Royal Family. their off-stage moments. tender spots. Selwyn—Blite theater folk in prancing comedy with Martin Beck—Small- dy with a vaudeville background, made into a swell show by the Gleasons, Volpone. Guild—Robust version of Ben Jonson's hilarious old comedy, done to a turn by the Theatre Guild. To be reviewed later. Eye and Ear Entertainment Vanderdilt—King Arthur and his Gang entertainingly attacked by modern kidding, with excellent music underneath, A Connecticut Yankee. The Five O'Clock Girl. Shubert—Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw in theater-party entertainment. Funny Face. Alrin—Those dancing Astaires doi their best to Gershwin music. with Victor Moore ani William Kent to make you laugh. Good News. Forty-Sixth St.—This season's pace- maker for musical comedy. Greenwich Village Follies, Typical Winter Garden entertainment. viewed later. Here's Howe. Broadhurst—To be reviewed later. Keep Shuffili: Eltinge—A high-stepping colored mélange, with Miller and Lyles. Lovely Lady. Sam H. Harris—Pleasant musical show, with good ballet work. Manhattan Mary. Apollo—Don't tell us you haven't seen Ed Wynnl My Maryland. Jolson's—The Civil War set to music. Present Arms, viewed later. Rainor Shine. Cohan—Joe Cook a show in himself, with Tom Howard to help him. Terrific laughter nightly. Rosalie. New Amsterda Jack Donahue in one of Successes. Winter Garden — To be re- Lew Fields’ Mansfield—To be re- —Marilyn Miller and . Ziegfeld’s inevitable Show Boat. Ziegfeld—A”sumptuous show of early Mississippi days with the troupers. Some fine spirituals by Jules Bledsoe. Cast includes Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan and Puck and White. Sunny Days. /mperial—"A Kiss in a Taxi” set to pretty good music. Take the Air. Earl Carroll—Will Mahoney's clowning and dancing make this one worth while. The Three Musketeers. Lyric—Mr. Ziegfeld’s ace of shows. To be reviewed later. Robert Benchley. SILENT DRAMA Recent Developments The Chaser. First National—In which Harry Langdon proves that, after all, there is only one Charlie Chaplin. The Trail of '98. Metro-Goldwyn—One of those stupendous epics, but one that doesn't quite justify itself. The preliminary scenes of the gold rash to Alaska are magnificent, Skyscraper. Pathé—An effective comedy-melo- drama with a’ structural steel background and an unusually competent cast. Mother Machree. For—Oddly enough. it isn't anywhere near as ham as the song—thanks largely to Belle Bennett's intelligent and unconventional interpretation of the title rdle. Ladies’ Night. First Notional—The play from which this was adapted was once described by Robert Benchley as “the handwriting on the fence.” Red Hair. Poramount—Clara Bow again gets down to cases. The Big City. Chaney's lesser works, Tenderloin. Warner Bros.—Dolores Costello co- stars with the Vitaphone, but neither of them appears to particularly good advantage. Simba. Martin Johnson—More amazing views of wild animais in action, recorded by Mr. and Mrs, Martin Johnson, who can't seem to get enough of this sort of thing. , The Smart Set. Metro-Goldwyn—William Haines in another smart-aleck réle in a none too smart story. Metro-Goldwyn—One of Lon Dressed to Kill. For—Here is a crook melodrama that can be recommended, with a few cheers for the work done by Edmund Lowe. The Gaucho. United Artists—The Douglas Pairbanks is guilty of several mune this one. * The Secret Hour. Peramount—Pola Neg ats one more fine performance and one more sccond as picture to her record. The Crowd. Metro-Goldwyn—The everyd: of everyday people, truthfully and recorded by King Vidor with slow m Uncle Tom's Cabin. there. Burning Daylight. First National—Jack Londs tale of sudden wealth in Alaska converted iss; free-for-all fist-fight and gag-fest for Milton Sa, Sunrise, The Circus, Wings and The Last Con mand are on the current “Must” list. R. E. Sherwood. Universal—Th. ——_ READING MATTERS Fact Going to Pieces. By Alexar * Woollen. Putnam's—Bright and bubbling reminiscences ¢ show business. Naked Truth. By Clare Sheridan Travel notes of a lady who has been Horatio Alger. By Herbert R. Mayes. Masius—Biography of the newsboy's {nend. OP Man Adam and His Chillun. By R ford. Har per's—Sermons of a Negro preac material for those who tell coon stories. The Low-Down. By Charles G. Shas Amusing close-ups of great and near Yorkers. Rum, Romance and Rebellion. By Charles Wilax Taussig. Minton, Balch—Bottle and Bible days old New England. A poor gift for rich old Acs Eugenia in Boston. The Democratic Party. By Prank R. Kee The Republican Pasty. | By William Starr Myes Cc Chearag 53 Companionate histories by able histonass Swell for graduates of Henry Suydam’s clase & political expenditures. Harpe’ 4 Mey Fiction Alice in the Delighted States. By Edward Hi Diat Press—Skillul, witty parody. Like “Alice 2 Wonderland”—you like it or you don't. If you da you're just that much better off. Cambric Tea. By Rebecca Lowrie. Harpe'sA book of childhood, for secret reading by ad especially parents. Bad Girl, By Vifia Delmar. Harcourt, Brace—Tee book of the month, although it happens to be Literary Guild. Well-done story of the people yor step on in the subway. The Greene Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dos Scribner's—Logically improbable murder mystery. which rapidly becomes a massacre. First among current knee-knockers. The Virgin Queene. By Harford Powel, Jr. Lit Brown—Gay, satisfying yarn of an advertising a3 revolt against smuggery. Deluge. By S. Fowler Wright. Cosmopolitee— Adam Eve & Lilith in Modern Dress. Psead> daring claptrap. Don't waste Saturday nis! this one. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. By Thornton Wide. Boni—You needn't hurry to read this book—# be good for a long time yet. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. By'Sinclair ers Harcourt. Brace—Mr. Lewis imitates Ms. Lewis #3 the usual results, Perry Githens. comicbooks.com