Life — May 17, 1928 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE DRAMA More or Less Serious Coquette. Maxine Filiott—Helen Hayes giving a splendid performance in a tragic story of youthful love and Southern chivalry. Diamond Lil. Royale—Mae West going very Bowery in a play written by herself. Dracula. Fultor—Now the dean of the spine- chillers and also the most devilish in its conception. The Ladder. Cort—Free seats but don't bother. The Mystery Man. Bayes—Not unless you just have to see a mystery play and have seen all the rest. The Outsider. Ambassador—One of the few propaganda plays which have real dramatic value nd love interest. Admirably acted by Isobel Elsom and Lionel At The Scarlet Fox. Masque—That clever and inde- fatigable Sergeant Devlin once more advertises the Royal Canadian Mounted. Very good entertain ment. The Silent House. Morosco—Allan Dinehart and Helen Chandler in a creepy treasure hunt. Chinese touches add to the mystery. Strange Interlude. Golden—A woman with the courage of her emotions furnishes Eugene O'Neill with enough material for a five-hour play. Time out for dinner. Lynn Fontanne and a grand Guild cast. Ten Nights in a Barroom. {Wallack's—Revival of an old thriller, showing how the barnstormers tried to put over Prohibition. The Trial of Mary Dugan. National—The court- room during a murder trial with all the dull features removed. Ann Harding in the box. Comedy and Things Like That The Bachelor Father. Belasco—Three 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 comedy. Burlesque. Plymouth—Hal Skelly and Barbara Stanwyck as a burlesque team who make it difficult for love to find a way. A good show. Excess Baggage. Ritz—Heart throbs in the two- a-day. A great show working up to a spectacular finale. The Happy Husband, Empire —With Billie Burke and A. E Matthews. To be reviewed later. High Hatters. Forty-Fourth St—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. Marco Millions. Guild—Venice sends its Babbitt to Cathay—where he had much more than a China- man’s chance—and took it. Alfred Lunt as Marco. Our Betters. Henry Millep—Mr. Maugham’s smartly bitter comedy, with Ina Claire to make it even smarter. Paris Bound. Music Box—The lighter side of marital infidelity—and what are you going to do about it? Sophisticated comedy, with Madge Kennedy. The Royal Family. Selwyn—Hidalgo stage-folk at home. Temperament at fever point. Pine fun. The Shannons of Broadway. Martin Beck—The Gleasons mix comedy, pathos and a dash of good old hokum into a swell show. Eye and Ear Entertainment Blackbirds of 1928. Liberty—To be reviewed later. A Connecticut Yankee, Vanderbili—King Arthur and his Gang entertainingly attacked by modern kidding, with excellent music underneath. The Five O'Clock Girl. Shubert—Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw in Grade A theatre-party entertainment. Funny Face. Alrin—Those dancing Astaires doi their best to Gershwin music, with Victor Moore an William Kent to make you laugh. _ Good News. + Forty-Sixth St.—Co-education with a singing and dancing accompaniment. This season's pacemaker for musical comedy. Greenwich Village Follies. Winter Garden—Typi- cal Winter Garden entertainment. To be reviewed later. Here's Howe! Broadhurst—To be reviewed later. Keep Shufflin’. 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 Wynn! My Maryland. Casino—Stonewall_ Jackson's troops in a singing contest with Barbara Prietchie. Present Arms. Lew Fields’ Mansfeld—To be re- viewed later. Rain or Shine. Cohan—A first-rate circus com- pletely surrounded by Joe Cook. Rosalie. New Amsterdam—Marilyn Miller and Jack Donahue in one of Mr. Ziegfeld’s inevitable successes. Show Boat. Zieg/eld—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. Imperial—"A Kiss in a Taxi” to pretty good’ music Take the Air. Earl Cerroll—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. set SILENT DRAMA Recent Developments Speedy. Paramount—Harold Lloyd as an enter- prising young man who drives a horse-car, among other things, through New York's most congested districts. A grand comedy! The Patsy. Metro-Goldwyn—A rather mild little affair about a younger daughter. with some clever impersonations by Marion Davies. The Chaser. First National—It's really too bad about Harry Langdon. The Trail of Metro-Goldwyn—Pollowing the fortunes of a group of gold-seekers from San Francisco to Dawson City. Some of it is superb—some of it is ham. Skyscraper. Pathé—William Boyd and Sue Carol make a nice pair of lovers in a romance of the skyline. Mother Machree. Fox—Another effective per- formance by Belle Bennett in another sentiment drama. Ladies’ Night. very vulgar and not very funny. Dorothy Mackaill are in it. Red Hair, Paramount—If you haven't already seen what Clara Bow looks like in the flesh, here's your chance, The Big City. Metro-Goldwyr—Lon Chaney in a crook melodrama that turns out to be singularly uninteresting. Burning Daylight. First National—A Milton Sills picture with the usual number of fisticuffs, and some crude attempts at humor thrown in. Simba. Martin Johnson—It's simply astounding what Mr. and Mrs. Johnson can and will do with a movie camera in Africa, First National—Very boisterous, Jack Mulhall and Tenderloin. Warner Bros—Dolores Cost Conrad Nagel get ail tangled up in the consist mechanism of the Vitaphone. Three Sinners. Paramount—Pola Negri wean a white wig in a flossy picture with an incredibie pot Dressed to Kill. For—Here is a really good under yorld ‘melodrama, with special credit’ to Edment we. The Gaucho. United Artists—Douglas Pairbanks out of his element (which is entertainment), The Secret Hour. Paramount—Anoth tion of Pola Negri—this time in more i roundings. The Crowd. MetroGoldwyn—King Vier tried hard to do something exceptional, and Meserves pean for the effort if not for the results. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Universal—"Cross that ice cross that ice—cross that ice—Yeaaaaa--ELIZA™ Sunrise, The Circus, Wings and The Last Com mand are all urgently recommended. R. E. Sherwood. READING MATTERS Fact Five Murders, By Edmund Pearson. Doubleday, Doran—Enthraliing account, by the Chief of Lirrs Crime Department, of some famous pre-tablod Killings. Going to Pieces. By Alexander Woolleott nam's—A review of revues which is a show in it Skyward. By Commander Richard FE. Byrd Putnam's—Our most charming gentleman-adver turer talks of aviation and exploration. Naked Truth. By Clare Sherida: Harper's Honest autobiography, seasoned with a little world- wide scandal. ‘The Marsh Arab: Haji Rikkan. By “Pulanaia” Lippincott—Readers of “Revolt in the Desert” wil enjoy this tale of intrigue in Iraq. Rum, Romance and Rebellion. By Charles Willian Taussig. Minton, Balch—How those hardy old New Englanders mixed their Medford Rum with mie sionaries. The Oxford Dictionary. Oxford University Press —Dramatic, well-handled list of words in English language. Begun in 1884. The last volume (Wise to Wyzex) has just been published. Undoubtedly, the biggest book of the year. Fiction Alice in the Delighted States. By Edward Hope Dial Press—Swellgrandgorgeous! Famous Fimmales from Heestory. By Milt Grom joubleday, Doran—Nize babies of other days. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. By Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt, Brece-—Aing, a song of satire, a ie of the key. Dull as Babditt himself. Cambric Tea. By Rebecca Lowrie. Harper's A guide to childhood, as delicate and flower-like as its subject. Bad Girl. B: An unretouch people. Put. Vifia Delmar. Harcourt, Brace— photograph of hitherto unn The Greene Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dist Scribner’s—Who's who with the .32? You'll never ess. Even Philo Vance, the gentleman detective ad a hard time of it The Virgin Qi e. By Harford Powel, Jr Little, Brown—An advertising man chucks it all aad becomes Shakespeare for a day, with highly amosing results. The Closed Garcon, By Julian Green. Harpers —Unpleasant, uncomfortable, but we guess it’s Art The Bridge of San Luis Rey. By Thornes Wilder. Boni—Sooner or later you'll read it. Perry Githens. comicbooks.com