Life — May 24, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE Drama More or Less Serious Coquette. Marine Elliott—One of the plays which no one is surprised to see running as late in the season as this. With Helen Hayes it ought to go on in- definitely. Diamond Lil. Royale—Mac West cashing in on her recent martyrdom with an underworld drama which it has become the smart thing to patronize. Dracula. Fulton—The dean of the local goose flesh inducers. Interference. Cosmopolitan—A _popular-priced version of the drama that ran all season farther down- town, The Ladder. irritating. The Outsider. Ambassador—Lionel Atwill in a play of therapeutics which was here several years ago without causing any more stir than it is causing now, The Scarlet For. Masque—One of Willard Mack's dependable melodramas. The Silent House. Morosco—Ingenious methods of frightening and killing people, especially those who are susceptible to Chinese The Skull. Forrest—We cannot speak of this as we haven't seen it, and it almost looks as if we never should. Strange Interlude. John Golden—The winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and little wonder. The Trial of Mary Dugan. National—A trial which has lasted eight months because it is so interesting. The Waltz of the Dogs. Forty- Eighth St—Good enough to be brought up from the Cherry Lane ‘Theater, but we haven't seen it yet. Comedy and Things Like That The Bachelor Father. Belasco—A nice little play which is making a nice little hit. June Walker and Geoffrey Kerr are in the cast. Burlesque. Plymoth—The course of true love in a burlesque show, containing several very good mo- ments for the spectator. Excess Baggage. Rits—The course of true love in a vaudeville theater. Also containing high moments. The Happy Husband. issue. Him. The Ivory Door. with staying powers. Our Betters. Henry Miller's—Ina Claire in an old one of Maugham's which is better than his latest. Formerly considered shocking; now just amusing. Paris Bound. Music Box—Highly pleasant talk about the marriage tie and ways to loosen it. Madge Kennedy heads the cast. The Royal Family. Selwyn—This one ought to entertain you even if you never lived in a theatrical family. The Shannons of Broadway. Martin Beck—The Sleasons (Mr. and Mrs.) ina little mixture of laughs and tears which has been pleasing a lot of people for a long time. She Stoops to Conquer. Frlanger's—Last week of the all-star revival. The cast includes Pay Bainter, Glean Hunter, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Pauline Lord, O. P. Heggic and Pat: Skidding. Bijou—To be reviewed later. Ten Nights in a Barroom. Wellack"s—A serious performance of a once-serious drama. It may make a different man of you. Volpone. Guild—Now that the authorities have decided that this is fit to be seen, you may go and see it. And you better had. ‘Whispering Friends. Hudson—One of Mr. Cohan's pleasant but minor opera Young Truth. Lyceum—To be reviewed later. Cort—This is getting just a little Empire—Reviewed in this Provincetown—Nuts. Charles Hopkins—A fantasy Eye and Ear Entertainment Black Birds of 1928. next week. ‘A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbilt—Still contain- ing our favorite score and still high in entertainment value. The Five O'Clock Girl. Shubert—Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw in a pleasant evening with a couple of good tunes. Funny Face. Alrin—Some dancing by the Astaires which makes this obligatory, together with Gershwin music and comedy from Victor Moore and William Kent. Good News. Forty-Sixth St. any better than this all season. wa Sted Street Follies. Booth—To be reviewed later. Greenwich Village Follies. viewed in this issue. Here's Howe! Broadhurst—Reviewed in this issue Keep Shufflin’. Elsinge—Good colored revue. Lovely Lady. Sam H. Harris—One of the ones you can miss if you are pressed for time. Present Arms. Lew Fields’ Mansfeld—Reviewed in this issue, Rain or Shine. Cohan—Joe Cook—which is enough to tell anybody. Rosalie. New Amsterdam—Marilyn Miller and Jack Donahue in one of Mr. Ziegfeld’s current gold mines. Show Boat. Ziee/eld—With all the companies that will soon be playing this, there will be no excuse for everyone's not seeing it. Take the Air. Earl Carroli—Will show in himself. The Three Musketeers. Lyric—Good swash- buckling musical comedy in the Ziegfeld manner, with Dennis King, Vivienne Segal and Lester Allen. Robert Benchley. Liberty—To be reviewed They haven't come Winter Garden—Re- Mahoney a Silent Drama Recent Developments Street Angel. For—A stupid romance in a Nea- politan setting, with some effective, direction by rank Borzage and some good acting by Janet Gaynor, Across to Singapore. Metro-Goldwyn—Ramén Novarro and Ernest Torrence in one of those red- looded melodramas of the high seas. Very exciting at times. The Patsy. Metro-Goldwyn—A moderately enter, taining comedy of American home life, in which Marion Davies does some romping. The Chaser. First National—For a while it seemed that Harry Langdon was developing into a second Chaplin; but then he decided to write and direct his own pictures. Speedy. Paramount—The loudest and funniest icture that Harold Lloyd has made—and that's no Jaint praise. either. Mother Machree. Fox—Belle Bennett gives an unusual portrait of a usual Irish mother The Trail of "98. | Metro-Goldwyn—This starts out as an epic on a grand scale and then degenerates into just another phony Alaskan thriller. Skyscraper. Patht—An_ interesting _comedy- drama, with William Boyd as a riveter and Sue Carol as a Follies girl, Ladies’ Night. First National—Rowdy doings i a Turkish bath, during most of which Dorothy Mackaill appears in her accustomed state of désha- ie. Red Hair. Paramount—And while we are on the subject of déshabillé, here is Clara Bow. The Big City. Metro-Goldwyn—Lon Chaney with- out make-up in a formless melodrama. Simba. Martin Johnson—Next to “Chang,” this is probably the best of all the wild animal films. Tenderloin. Warner Bros.—You can see Dolor Costetlo in this. and you can also hear of course, always provided that Three Sinners. Paramount—Pola who puts on a white wig and compe to fall in love with her. Burning Daylight. First National—Two-fstet melodrama and heavy-handed gags, perpetrated by Milton Sills. , Dressed to Kill. Fox—Edmund Lowe gives as excellent performance as a flashy crook The Gaucho. United Artists—A misstep by the sure-footed Douglas Pairbanks. The Crowd. Metro-Goldwyn—King Vidor has ix vestigated the home life of the average Americas le and has found there a considerable amount d as a lady her husband ‘om's Cabin. Unirersal— The Circus, Sunrise, The Last Command asi Wings. Yes, ‘yes, yes. yes. R. E. Sherwood. Reading Matters Fact Five Murders. By Edmund Pearson. Doubleday Doran—Some old killings interestingly exhumed « print by Lire’s crime reporter. Going to Pieces. By Alexander Woollcot nam's—True Confessions of a dramatic cri Skyward. By Commander Richard Putnam'’s—The modest autobiography man cloud-chaser. Naked Truth. By Clare Sheridan. Harper’ international indiscretions of the The travels and sculptor-author. nd Rebellion. By Charles Willias f the New Pu Byrd a gentle Rum, Romanc Taussig. Minton, Balch—Bunghole view England fathers. Present Day Russia. By Ivy Lee. Mocmills Mr. Rockefeller’s press agent looks things over. ‘Gentlemen, Be Seated.” | By Dailey Paskmx and Sigmund Spaeth. Doubleday, Doran—All aboz the old-time minstrels. Much maternal for amatesr revivals: music, pictures and patter. Fiction Alice in the Delighted States. By Edward Hope. Diet Press—A parody worthy of its heroine. Never bitter, it makes the front page of the daily paper look extremely silly. Famous Fimmales from Heestory. B: Doubleday, Doran—The low-down on te . Julius Sizzer, Halan from Troy. and others. artistic embellishments by the author. The Man Who Knew Coolidge. By Sinc’ Harcourt, Brace—Trick photography, han As real as a musical comedy hoss race. Bad Girl. By Vifia De Harcourt, Brace— Simple, unassuming portri of the Manhattan pea» antry. | An excellent likeness. Banned by Bostos. The Greene Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dist Scribner’s—Philo Vance, the society dick, solves 4 raltiple murder mystery. Neat, if a little gaudy. Cambric Tea. By Rebecca Lowrie. Hf If you've ever wondered what a little gitl thi about, this is it The Closed Garden. By Julian Green. —A long novel of a particularly unpleasa: Provincia! family, so well written its leng’ unnoticed. The Virgin Queene. By Harford Powel. J Little, Brown—Bright, gay. and refreshing. Liters hors d’oeuvres. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. By Thornton Wilde Boni—Literary roast beef, well done, with gravy: Perry Githens. comicbooks.com ae