Life — July 26, 1928 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE Drama More or Less Serious Coquette. AMfoxine Elliott's—Gradually the list is getting thinned down to where this tragedy of young love, with Helen Hayes, is about the only thing in town really certain of satisfying. Diamond Lil. Royale—A mixture of Je te twent’-thirt’ and Mae West, new-time ten-twen! thirt’, A lot of people find entertainment slumming at it. The Ladder. Cort—It now looks as if we shou have to review the new version next week. Nothii else seems to be opening. Porgy. Republic—A drama of Negro life, done with such effectiveness as to be one of the important productions of the past season The Silent House. Shubert—If you are casi chilled by the presence of malign Chinese and ¢ resence of knives, this might be as good a place to keep cool as any. Strange Interlude. John Golden—Judith Anderson s replaced Lynn Fontanne in the difficult réle of wwene O'N " ve heroine in her fi hour run of the emotional gamut. The Trial of Mary Dugan. Sam H. Harris—In- teresting cross-section of a courtroom during a spicy murder trial, Comedy and Things Like That The Bachelor Father. Helasco—Very pleasant re- sults obtained by a father (unmarried) getting a quainted with his various love-children. Cast in- cludes June Walker, C. Aubrey Smith and Geoffrey Kerr. The Intruder. perhaps. The Lawyers’ Dilemma. viewed next week, if at Married—and How! Litth—With the dropping- out of better shows, this one goes up in the scale, but not enough to make it worth coming in from the country to see. The Royal Family. comedies. Skidding. stuff. Volpone. comedy, Belmont—To be reviewed later— Belmont—To be re- Selwyn—Top among the Bijon—Regulation small-town home- Guild—Beautifully staged Renaissance it along hearty lines. All night if you like hearty Renaissance comed Wanted. Wallack’s—Not bad, but nothing to get excited about of a summer's evening. Eye and Ear Entertainment Black Birds of 1928. Liberty—Plenty of superla- tively good features make this colored show one of the best in town. AConnecticut Yankee. Vanderbilt—Modern slang and excellent music injected into Mark Twain's book. William Gaxton and Constance Carpenter. Good News. Forty-Sixth Street—Nearly a year old and still going very fast and strong. Grand Street Follies. Booth—If you like imita- tions of stars, here are some of the best you have ever seen. No competitor of Mr. Ziegfeld in other respects. Greenwich Village Follies. Winter Garden—A cool theater with a show which has "Dr." ockwell as its chief distinguishing feature. Present Arms! Mansfeld—Life among the Ma- rines set to music with entertaining results. Charles King and Joyce Barbour. Rain or Shine. Cohan—Joe Cook's show, which ought to be enough to recommend it. Rosalie. New Amsterdam—The always co’ cal Jack Donahue and the always Marilyn Miller Marilyn Miller. Scandals of 1928. A pollo—Mr. White's new re- vue, making nine good ones in all. A cast of stars Richman, Prances Williams, Willie Howard, Tom Patricola and Ann Pennington. Show Boat. Zieg/eld—A big, beautiful show with a tuneful score, Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan, Puck and White, and Norma Terris. The Three Musketeers. Lyric—Elaborate and pleasantly romantic musical comedy with a Dumas background, Robert Benchley. uding Ha Silent Drama Recent Developments The Drag Net. Paremount—Another fine of the great war between the yegus and the well acted, well constructed, well directed. The Cossacks. Metro-Goldwyn—John Gilbert, who can outsmile the best of the toothpaste indorsers, in a none too thrilling romantic melodrama. The Lion and the Mouse. Warner Bros.—How a meck little miss (impersonated by May McAvoy) out- witted a financial gant (played, and to the hilt, by Lionel Barrymore)—with some spoken dialogue. Wheel of Chance. First National—Richard Barthelmess. stages a second comeback, and again under the direction of ed Santell. The story is an interesting one, about Russian twin boys who are separated at birth and finally come together in New York, of all places. Fazil. Fox: girl who marries a Paes her.) The Street of Sin. Paramount—The enormous Emil Jannings in a melodrama that is gripping and moving, though improbable. Laugh, Clown, Laugh. United Artists—Lon Chaney as a buffoon who dies so that the girl he loves may marry the man she loves. Weill done, but not worth the trouble. The Magnificent Flirt. Paramount—A fine per- formance by one Albert Conti, who appears with the decorative Florence Vidor in a bit of Parisian Aufl. The News Parade. For—The mildly diverting adventures of a young and enterprising camera-man who gets both the picture and the girl. Ladies of the Mob. Paramoun!—Clara Bow manages to keep her shirt on throughout this one. The Big Killing. Paramount—The last co-starring vehicle of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton, and if any tears are being shed over the breaking up of this comedy team, they don’t emanate from these old eyes. Ramona. dull. Tempest. United Artist—John Barrymore look- ing and acting his best in a red Russian setting. Street Angel. Fox—A sluggish love story which could have been (and should have been) told in one reel. His Tiger Lady. | Poramount—Adolphe Menjou impersonates another humble Prenchman who dresses up and wins the lady of his choice. Across to Singapore. - Metro-Goldwyn—Heroism and villainy aboard an old windjammer, with Ramén Novarro supplying most of the former element. Mother Machree. For—Belle Bennett as an Irish mother who discovers that America is a little bit of heaven, too. The Trail of "98. Metro-Goldwyn—An epic of the gold rush to Alaska, which starts out wonderfully well and ends indifferenily. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Unirersal—The old senti- ment, the old hokum and the old thrill. The End of St. Petersburg, Hammerstein: The Man Who Laughs, Unirersal; Wings, Paramount, and Sunrise, Fox—These are recommended. The Racket, Paramount, and The Actress, Metro- Goldwyn—Reviewed in this issue. R. E. Sherwood. icture jicks— what happens to a blonde ssky sheik. (Note: He poisons United Artists—Long, sad, beautiful and Reading Matters Fact The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism anf Capitalism. By George Bernard Shaw. Brenion'= A deceptive title covers the essence of the Shay philosophy of life, Houdial: “His Lite Story. By Ha Harcourt, Brace—The legend of the H is no less exciting and impossible than thriller. Wayne Wheeler, Dry Boss. By Rerell—Interesting’ to students of the F question. but too dull for d ‘Oh, Ranger!" By Hora J, Taylor. Stanford University the National Parks, and a good one. Fiction The Island of Captain Sparrow. By S Wright Cosmopolitan—The author of touted “Deluge,” not content with bei: H. G. Wells, must needs be a second Mu: boot. The Strange Case of “William” Cook. ard Kaverne. Har per's—This tale ha: that it gains its effects without the aid of Ss, cade vers, of any other manifestations of the mystey writer's art. Pair. Swan Song. By John Galsworthy. Scribaa’ The last of the Forsytes, and, while that famu Bntish family is just a bit too geneal al for oa tastes, we are sorry. Excellent, of course. Jerome; or, The Latitude of Love. By M: Bedel. Wiking —The Norwegians were too aboveboard in their lovemaking {c Frenchman, who preferred his affairs w of frankness. This year's Goncourt Pr and no wonder. More, plea: Monsieur Bedell ‘Trader Hora: Volume Two! Harold the Webtet or The Young Vyking: By Alfred Aloy He and Ethelreda Lewis. Simon & Schuster- aspirant for the mantle of the good Baron sen. Highly recommended by Messrs. Galswort! and McPee; which just goes to show what bad jel ment can be displayed by good authors. ‘The Battle of the Horizons. By Sylvia Th: Little, Brown—A young American gitl_mamesa youre Englishman, Dut discovers that she pam his family. too, and that a mutual language does xt necessarily mean a mutual understand: Thompson stands very high on our list of au have something to say, and say it surpassin The Window. By Alice Grant Rosman. Balch—A book like this can be read and enj s own sake and not from any sense of duty pended deck-chair reading. The Six Proud Walkers. By Prancis Beeline Little, Brown—The inevitable young Englishms with time on his hands, and his casual acq' vaIntAnee, who is really in the Secret Service, combat a thirsty crew of international t le-makers. Scissors Cut Paper. By Gerard Pairlie. Li Brown—Even the most avid of mystery gulpers gag a little on this one. Counterfeiters and sent passages are fair enough, but that death ray is tm much. The Fifteen Cells. By Stuart Martin. Hor —Short, connected stories of criminals and their ete stakes told by the warden of an English prsos ® divert the attention of another criminal. Haves neither hero nor heroine, without recourse to tt supernatural, the yarn manages to be interesting. as ions What'll We Do Now? By Leonard T. Holton. ....The Road to He ‘Thomas Beer. .... Quiet Cities. By Joseph Hers heimer.....Taramany Hall. By M. R. Werner But Gentlemen Marry B y By_ Harford By Julian Green, By §. 5. Van Dine. Perry Githens. Murder Case. comicbooks.com