Life — June 14, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE Drama More or Less Serious Coquette. Moexine Filiott—Helen Hayes in a sad little tragedy of amorous dalliance. One of the late season's outstanding performances. Diamond Lil. Royale—A more or less regulation melodrama of the old-time underworld which has een taken up socially and made one of the “things to Mae West wrote it and is its queen bee, Diplomacy. Erlanger's—An all-star revival. To be reviewed next week. Dorian Gray. Biltmore—You can knock us over with a feather if this is still in town by now. The Ladder. Cort—Certain revisions have been made in this, which will probably necessitate paying people a slight bonus for attending. Porgy. Republic—Return engagement of the Negro production which was the Theater Guild's first success of the season. Worth seeing again. Rope. Civic Repertory—Mob spirit dramatized effectively. The Scarlet Fox. Masgue—Good Willard Mack el . showing how the Canadian Mounted heir man—sometimes a woman as well. The ‘Silent House. Morosco—Special creeper. bringing Chinese duplicity into play, together with a dash of poison gas. The Skull. Forrest—Not our favorite melodrama, Strange Interlude. John Golden—Pive hours of O'Neill, out of which one is superb, two good, and two pretty much junk. ‘The Tral of Mary Dugan, National—A murder mystery solved before your eyes in a court-room. Comedy and Things Like That Anna. Lyceum—Judith Anderson and Lou Tellegen in the one about the handsome artist who falls in love with his little minx of a . The Bachelor Father. ficiasco—One of the come- dies which is set for the summer, with June Walker playing the smart illegitimate child, assisted by C. Aubrey Smith and Geoffrey Kerr. , Bottled in Bond. Alaw—A pleasant enough little play about genteel bootlegging. Burlesque. Plymouth—This story of love back- stage has had enough solid merit to keep it running from the beginning of the season, helped along by Hal Skelly and Barbara Stanwyck. Excess Baggage. Rif2—Vaudevillians at work and in love, with a wow at the finish Get Me inthe Movies. Earl Carroll—A farce with- out much to recommend it—in fact, nothin The Happy Husband. pire—Very pleasant h talk concerning intrigue and jealousy on a house party, especially good in the second act. Billie Burke heads the cast, but A. E. Matthews and Lawrence Grossmith are also in it. . Our Betters. Henry Miller’s—Ina Claire in a highly successful second showing of Maugham's attack on anglicized Americans. is Bound. Music Box—Smart dialogue on the subject of marital infidelity, spoken by a smart cast headed by Madge Kenned The Road to Rome. Playhouse—Return engage- ment of Jane Cowl in Robert Sherwood's successful interpretation of a moot point in ancient history The Royal Family. Selwyn—Life in a family of theatrical stars made into one of the most entertaining plays in town, Skidding. Bijou—Rather weak home-life-i town comedy. Ten Nights in a Barroom. you stop and think. . Volpone. Guild—Boisterous Renaissance comedy, with some fine touches. “small Wallack's—To make Eye and Ear Entertainment Black Birds of 1928. Liberty—Negro show contain- ing some of the best stuff in town, especially in the second a A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbilt—Highly mod- ernized and expertly musicalized version of the Mark Twain story, with William Gaxton and Constance Carpenter. The Five O'Clock Girl. Shuber!—Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton in a pleasantly innocuous show, with a couple of good tunes. Funny Face. Alrin—Spectacular dancing by Pred Astaire, dancing and comedy from his little sister Adele, and just comedy from Victor Moore and Andrew Tombes. Good News. Forty-Sixth St—The pioneer of the season's fast-moving. stamping dance shows. Grand Street Follies. ‘Bootk—To be reviewed next wee Greenwich Village Follies. inter Garden— Much the same as usual, with “Dr. Rockwell adding an expert comedy touch. _ Here’s Howe! Broadhurst—Walter Catlett has joined Ben Bernie (with band) and Allen Kearns to make this an easy summer show to sit through. Present Arms. Lew Fields’ Mansfield—The latest Pields-Rodgers-Hart opus, displaying their customary talents. Charles King, Flora Le Breton and Joyce Barbour lead the singin Rain or Shine. Cohan—As if it were not enough to have the Master, Joe Cook, in a show, this one also has Tom Howard, Rosalie. New Amsterdam—Marilyn Miller and jack Donahue bringing musical comedy into West oint, and very prettily, too. Show Boat. Ziee/eld—Containing some of the best music in town, with Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan and Norma Terris. The Three Musketee with Ziegfeld settings ai Lyric—Dumas to musi Dennis King as the hero. Robert Benchley. Silent Drama Recent Developments The Man Who Laughs. Unirersal—One of the eat pictures of the year—admirably directed by Paul Leni and played with fine fervor by Conrad Veidt ‘and many others. This one shouldn't be missed. Tempest. United Artists—Another thoroughly creditable production, with the best performance that Jphs, Barrymore has'given since “Beau Brummel.” assia, in 1914-18, provides the background. Hangman’s House. Fox—Somewhat ham melo- drama of the Ould |. well acted and beautifully photographed. : Ramona. United Artists—Dolores Del Rio is the heroine of a dreary romance. The scenery is great. Steamboat Bill, Jr. United Artists—One of Buster Keaton's funniest, comedies. Street Angel. Fox—The talents of those two nice young people, Janet Gaynor and Charles Parrell, are pretty well obscured in this one. The Big Noise. First National—A mixture of delicate satire and flat-footed hokum, with a noble characterization by Chester Conklin. ‘Across to Singapore. MeiroGoldwyn—Ramén Novarro proves that he can hold his own with a whole shipload of two-fisted he-men. Mother Machree. For—Belle Bennett as an Irish mother who discovers that New York City is a little bit of heaven, too. The Trail of ‘98. Metro-Goldwyn—Up the slopes of Chilkoot Pass with the big parade of prospectors. Clarence Brown has devised some scenes that are magnificent and some that are not so magnificent. die Thompson. United Artists—Grand work by Gloria Swanson in the movie version of “Rain.” ‘A Girl in Every Port. For—Victor McLaglen as a promiscuous sailor in an amusing but none too deli- cate comedy. Skyscraper. Pathé—Tragedy, comedy, melodrama and romance, well mixed. ; ; The Patsy. | Metro-Goldwyn—Marion Davies dem- onstrates her skill as an impersonator in a very mild entertainment. : Ladies’ Night. First National—This conforms to my. notion of cheap humor. , Simba. Martin Johnson—Startling close-ups of wild animals in AI with Mrs. Johnson in the foreground Red Hi Paramount—They show you colored views of Clara Bow’s hair in this—and that isn’t all they show you, in case you're interested. Glorious Betsy. Warner _Bros.—Anoth the Vitaphone and Dolores Costelio. The plot about a Baltimore girl who married Napdessy oral Daylight. | Fi jurning Daylight. First National—A {airly cal Milton Sills melodrama. sie Three Sinners. | Paramount—Pola Negri as acu. off wife who gets back her man. patbe Gaucho, ” Uniied Artists wish Doug Pais inks woul arry up and make that sequel “The Three Musketeers. aia Dressed to Kill. For—The thrilling career of as attractive crook. The Crowd. Metro-Goldwyn—Art is lor Unele Tom's Cabin. Unitersol—Eliss svain goes through her famous ice-routine, and it still bea over. big. Speedy (Paramount), Sunrise (For), The Lat Command (Paramount). The Cireus (Li nited Arias} and 3 (Paramount}—You should have seen ay these long ago. R. E. Sherwood, Reading Matters Fact \Hearst—An American Phenomce>n. By John K Winkler. Simon & Schuster—A Biography for Pee ple Who Think. Our most influential hyy through somewhat rosy spectacles. What'll We Do Now? By E. Longstec Leonard T. Holton, Simon & Schuster—Part by people you know. Especially recommended to the Governors of the Carolinas. Complete Sayings of Jesus. A Glowing Short Sion. D.H. Pierpont (Williamsburg, Mass.). "An extracr dinary little document.”"—Fannie Hurst. The Ways of Behaviorism. By John B. Watua Har per's—Common-sense psychology explained is thoughts of one syllable. Captain Jack, "By (as told to) Her Century—Rough-and-tumble _autobiograp! Secret Service man which leaves us just a ! “Gentlemen, Be Seated.” By Dailey and Sigmund Spaeth. Doubleday, Doran on your harmonica, Mister Interlocutor. ‘ammany Hall.” By M. R. Werner. Doubleday, Doran—With such a record, it is no wonder the Tiger wears stripes. Should not be taken to Houston The Gangs of New York. By Herbert Asbury Knopf— The Social Register of the old-time unde world. Fiction But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. By Anita Louw Liveright—Good enough to be the sequel to “Gentle men Prefer Blondes,” which it is. Catherine-Paris. By Princess Marthe Bibesa Harcourt, Brace—Amorous travelogue of the Eur pean aristocracy. Maybe we're wrong. The Closed Garden. By Julian Green. —Insanity ina Prench Provincial village. ing, but somehow satisfactory. The Virgin Queene. By Harford Powel, Jr. Littl. Brown—An advertising) man’s Elizabethan play creates an international furor. Witty and ws. What more could you ask? Behind That Curtain. By Earl Derr Bigger Bobts-Merrill—Your money's worth of mystery. convincingly solved by modest Charlie Chan, the Chinese detective. Bad Girl. By Vifia Delmar. Harcourt, Brece— Report _on Nos. 6,999,901 and 6,999,902 of York's 7.000.000 population. Full details concerning No, 6,999,903. . The Greene Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dine Scribner’s—It's the cadavers that make this a rattling good mystery. Another triumph of Philo Vance, the society flatfoot. The Sag of Cap'n John Smith. By Christopber Ward. Harper's—Not too brilliant, but amusing enough doggerel about the boy-friend of Pocahontas Alice in the Delighted States. By Edward Hop Dial Press—Well-bred satire, : Perry Githens. Harpo’ Depress comicbooks.com