Life — June 7, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE Drama More or Less Serious Coquette. Maxine Elltiott—Southern chivalry carried to tragic extremes, with Helen Hayes giving & rmance as the vic . in a little some- of her own depicting life in the underworld thirty years ago. Dor Reviewed in this issue. —It costs you nothing to see this, is always the warm weather as an excuse. Republic—If you didn’t sce this Negro ing its successful run earlier in the s your chance Re pertory—An effective dramatization pirit as my. iifested in the enlightened but there Porgy. product The Scarlet Fox. Masgue—The Canadian Mounted giving Willard Mack another chance to be brave with a brogue. The Silent House. Morosco—If you crave terror, this is about the only show left in town that will furnish it for yc The Skull." Forrest—This o Strange Interlude. John G tious ama which has sp! very thin how The Trial of Mary Dugan. National—The question is not rder was committed but how a trial can be made so interesting. Comedy and Things Like That Anna. ‘eviewed in this issue, The Bachelor Father. Belasco—June Walker in a e comedy dealing nicely with leg The Beaux’ Stratagem. Hampden s ival with a cast incl *t count. ‘eill’s ambi- 1 moments and some y ‘The annual ing (at present a Crosm: Margaret Lawrence, Helen M This week only. A’ modest but pleasant ken. James Boitled in Bond. comedy with ge Burlesque. lesque wheel really loved each oth Excess Baggage. Rit how they came to know tha other. _ Sor : Get Me in the Movies. this iss The Happy Husband. Empire—Billie Burke and an na pleasantly. British comedy which gets very amusing after the act. The Ivory Door. Charles Hopkins—A. A. Milne whimsey which has a robustness of popularity exceed- ing that of many a melodrama. Our Betters. Henry Miller's—Mr. displays a little bitterness toward America: of 1 at with venor as aided by Ina Claire. Paris Bound. i trea ate ‘d with by siderable wisdo: The Road to Rome. after a successful s The Royal Family. ning slice of life in a theatrical f Skidding. 1 wed next week. Ten Nights in a Bar-room. !Wallack"s—A lesson for all of us. ‘now that they worth secing ille artists and ey really loved each ng. Earl Carroll—Reviewed in Maugham residents especia t of adult: ch and c laborately rousing ¢ Whispering Friends. ixdson—Something of Mr. Cohan’s for a mildly entert Eye and Ear Entertainment Black Birds of 1928. Liberty—A Negro show full of good stuff, especially danc A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbit Twain story Je into a highly sw comedy Funny Face. Alrin— wonders with his feet Victor Moore —The Mark ssful musical d Astaire still perfor aided by his sister Adele an Good News. for them all. Grand Street Follies. week. Greenwich Village Follies. Winter Garden—Regu- lation Winter Garden show with “Dr.” Rockwell to add the scientific touch. Here's Howe! Hroadhurst—Ben Bernie and his 1, in company with Allen Kearns and Irene Delroy, making a pleasant ng. Present Arms. Lew Fields’ Mansfield—The latest Hart-Rodgers-Pields opus, this time setting the marines to music with effective results. Rain or Shine. Cohan—Joe Cook at top form, aided by Tom Howard. Rosalie. New Amsterdam—The Marilyn Miller- Jack Donahue end of Mr. Ziegfeld’s trilogy of hits. Show Boat. fld—Probably the most out- Forty-Sixth St.—Setting the tempo Booth—To be reviewed next standing of the late season's musicals. The Three Musketeers. Lyric—The third Ziegfeld success, with Dennis King and Lester Allen. Robert Benchley. Silent Drama Recent Developments Ramona. United Artists—The rather dull tragedy of a half-breed Indian girl who went native. The scenery and photography are beautiful beyond words. Steamboat Bill, Jr. United Artists—Buster Keaton xives a singularly’ fine performance in a funny and generally pleasant comedy. i. Fox—An Irish melodrama, lent work by Victor McLaglen, Earle Foxe and George Schneiderman (the camera-ma The Big Noise. First National—Chester Conklin asa cartoonist’s concept: “Mr. Common People.” 's some real satiric dynamite in Sadie Thompson. United A Maugham’s immortal story of spiritual force and ia Swanson doing the best work of her career. Street Angel. “F . slow which the hero and heroine whist cach other. Across to Singapore. Novarro on an old. wit complement of villainous seamen. Mother Machree. For—A_ touching tribute to otherhood by that eminent Hibernian, Mr. "98. Metro-Goldwyn—Clarence oth epic of the Alaskan gold rush. ndously impressive, at times. The Patsy. MetroGol in which Marion Davies appears as the romance, ‘O Sole Mio” in at MetroGoldwyn—Ram6n jammer, with the usual t mates and hard- Skyscraper. Pathi—William Boyd and Sue Carol work together nicely in an entertaining picture. A Girl in Every Port. For—Rovgh, tough and largely, to Victor MeLagle Night. First Notional—Horse-play in a Red Hair. Clara Bow of the saucer- cyes and the diaphs The Big City. MetroGoldwyn—One of Lon Chaney's lesser efforts. ba. Martin Johnron—If I were a wild African on, I'd be darned if I'd pose in a close-up, even tor Mrs. Martin Johnson. vy Glorious Betsy. fui Warner Bros.—A chapter in Napoleon's life which Emil Ludwig never read, with Dolores Costello as the brave little American girl who told the Man of Destiny where to get off. Some of it is spoken out loud, via the Vitaphone. Three Sinners. Paramount—Pola Negri wears a white wig in a highly improbable plot. Burning Daylight. First National—Milton Sills is still carrying that chip on his shoulder. The Gaucho, United Artists—Douglas Pairbanks as acolorfulgbandit who gets religion and, at the same moment, gets dull. Dressed to Kill. For—Amusin drama of the underworld, with sheik-crook. The Crowd. MetroGoldwyn—King tempt to be ever so realistic. presented, but the poi Uncle Tom's Cabin. started the Civil War. Speedy (Paramount), The Circus (United The Last Command (Para: Sunrise ; (Paramount).—Al mmende The un Who Laughs (Us a (United Artists)—Reviewed in this issue R. E. Sherwood, d Lowe asa Vidor's at. The details are w t is obscure. nics Universal—The story that 1 Tempest Reading Matters Fact Captain Jack. By (as told to) Henry O Century—Supposedly authentic biography of Service man. Reads like “The Rover B. Secret Mission’ plus a few bad words, The Ways of Behaviorism. By John B. Watson, {erga Psychology made easy Viens please copy Psychological Care of tafant and Child. Watson. Fi W. Norton—Applied behav rent: What good old Doctor Holt is to joctor Watson is to the mind. Some Memories of a Soldier. By Major-( Hugh Lenox Scott. Century—One of the Dir our biggest business makes his report to th holders. “Gentlemen, Be Seated.” By Dailey Pask rmund Spaeth. Doubleday, Doran—Select and music from the old-t probably do wonders for th dee. ona stocks anand words b will of tambourines Fiction But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. By A reright verse of “Gent! Bion: can stand hea: again. The River. By Tristram Tupper Old Mama Nat again, in a cunously un about a boy and a rive and those two kin women you've heard about. Maybe we shou! me: ned it. The Saga of Cap'n John Smith. Ward. Amusing satirical An Elegant History of Political Pa: H. Ordway Jr. 1d—The drawings of F. ‘h to make this handt vi je thing it is. The Closed Garden. By Julian Green. Unpleasant novel concerning the makin; So well written you probably won't be reading it. The Virgin Queene. By Harford Powel, Jr. Little, Brown n advertising writer's holida Some keen and witty observations are salted away in a gay and frothy text. Bad Girl, By Vita Delmar. The Manhattan peasantry expl book about two unimportant people. your booklegs Swell, if y He far Harcourt ined. Tmportast In Boston, se ». Hor By Princess Marthe Bibes M { the court, Brace (a Stud book European aristocracy, delicately interpreted. The Greene Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dine Scribner's —When better blood is spilled, this yarn wil chill it. Philo Vence, the gardenia dick, solves 3 tough one. Alice in the D ted States. By Edwar Hope. st star in the firmament of Dial Press—The brigh Behind That Curtain. By Earl Derr Bobbs-Merrill—A__mystery-romance assiste logical conclusion by that Charlie Chan, most modest of detectives. . Perry Githens. comicbooks.com