Life — August 2, 1928 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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>y Reading Matters Fact The Complete Works of Francois Villon. Trans- lated by J. U. Nicolson. Covici, Friede—Two volumes, beautifully bound, contain all the Villon verse in ali its bawdy vigor. Twenty dollars, if you please. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. By George Bernard Shaw. Brentano's— Not exactly summer reading, but, hot or cold, you ought to look it over. Houdini: His Life Story. By Harold Kellock, Harcourt, Brace—The most exciting biography you'll , even if it doesn’t tell you how he did what Wayne Wheeler, Dry Boss. By Justin Steuart. Revell—Both the late Mr. Wheeler and his biographer meant well, which is the best that can be said of either the man or the book. Fiction Swan Song. By John Galsworthy. Scribner’s— The end is near for those faithful souls who have fol- the fortunes of the Forsyte family all these Jerome; or, The Latitude of Love. Bedel ikine—The amorous adventures of a Frenchman in Norway make delightful reading The Battle of the Horizons. By Syivia Thompson. Little, Brown—A_ Washington girl marries into an English family, thus provoking many international observations, Worth your whil Trader Horn: Volume Two—''Harold the Webbed, or The Young Vykings.” By Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis. Simon & Schuster nehow, we wish Mrs. Lewis had never bought that gridiron, and if that be treason you can go ahead and read the thing. The Window. By Alice Grant Rosman. Minton, Batch—England after the War and a lot of perfectly normal, pleasant people. Yes. The Island of Captain Sparrow. By S. Powter Wright. Cosmopolitan—Contains ‘the young lady without any clothes, the young gentleman with a gun, the horde of degenerate fellows, the primitive back- ground. All A la “Deluge,” and all extremely silly. War Among Ladies. By Eleanor Scott. Little, Brown—The wretched private life of the teachers in an English girl's school furnishes the material for a masterly piece of propaganda which is, at the same time, a good novel. And Also wen. By Thomas Beer. By Joseph Hergesheimer. By M. R. Werner... . . But Gentle- By Anita Loos. ... . Sun- ‘arker The Virgin ueene. By Harford Powel, Jr. The Closed arden. y Julian Green. . The Greene Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dine. Perry Githens. By Maurice The Road to H Quiet Cities. many Hall. men Marry Brunettes. set Gun. By Doroth Drama More or Less Serious Coquette. Maxine Elliott's—A good cry will do you no harm, especially when induced by such acting as that of Helen Hayes. Diamond Lil. Royale—Just an old-fashioned ham melodrama which has bounded into high esteem as entertainment among the knowing ones. There is an actress named Mae West in it. CONFIDE _The Ladder. viewed later. Porgy. Republic—A cross-section of Negro life in a Southern city, staged with great distinction. One of the show-picces of the year. . The Silent House. Shubert—The best horror show in town—in fact, the only one. Strange Interlude. John Golden—You may be irritated at this five-hour drama of O'Neill's, and you may not feel that it is the masterpiece of the century, but it is doubtful that you will be bored. The Trial of Mary Dugan. Sam H. Harris—A murder mystery solved nght in the courtroom and very neatly, too. Comedy and Things Like That The Bachelor Father. “Belasco—June Walker. C. Aubrey Smith, and Geoffrey Kerr in an innocuously preasct treatment of the nocuous subject of bas- tardy. The Intruder. Belmont—I{ this play really has opened by this week, you may be sure that we shall review it before long—if it is still running. The Lawyers’ Dilemma. Wallack’s—Even in the winter this wouldn’t be worth going to. The Royal Family. Selwyn.—You don't have to see any other of the current comedies. Skidding. Bijou—Small-town home stuff which has practically nothing to distinguish it. Volpone. ild—A farce dealing with Renaissance Italy in a gay, well-decorated manner. Eye and Ear Entertainment Black Birds of 1928. Liberty—Colored show with enough good stuff in it to stock three others A Connecticut Yankee. Vanderbili—Still one of the best scores in town, with William Gaxton and Constance Carpenter talking modern slang in Ar- thurian costumes. Good News. Forty-Sixth Street—It can't be much fun being in such a fast-moving show as this on a summer evening, pleasant as it is to watch. Present Arms! Mansficld—Life among musical comedy Marines which has many entertaining features and some good music. Charles King and Joyce Barbour among those present. Rain or Shine. Cohan—This is the Joe Cook show you may have heard us speak so favorably of. Rosalie. New Amsterdam—Marilyn Miller, aided by the never-failing clowning of Jack Donahue. Scandals of 1928. A pollo—Maybe not guit good as last year's but quite good enough. cast includes Harry Richman, Prances Williams, Ann Pennington, Willie and Eugene Howard, and Tom Patricola. Show Boat. Ziezfeld—You will have to see this sooner or later; so you might as well do it now. Charles Winninger. Helen Morgan, Puck and White, and Norma Terris. The Three Musketeers. Lyric—The third of Mr. Ziegteld's productions of the past season, giving him a practically perfect score. Cort—A new version. To be re- really so Robert Benchley. (Note: Mr. Benchley’s regular theater reviews are omitted this week because of vacation.) rat NTIAL GUIDE Silent Drama Recent Developments The Racket. Paramount — Thomas Meighas Louis Wolheim and Marie Prevost in a remartay honest picture of political corruption in Chicago (a any other city), directed by Lewis Milestone The Actress. Metro-Goldwyn—A thoroug ant adaptation of “Trelawney of the ‘Vt Norma Shearer and some nice costumes, The Lion and the Mouse. Warner Br the early experiments with’ the talking dered bearable by the quiet force of 1. more’s voice. The Drag Net. Paramount crook melodrama, well acted and The Cossacks. perhaps just a shade too buoyant i this, but when called upon to furnish some rea he furnishes same. Wheel of Chance. rst National: good to sce an ex-cha: n come back arthelmess does in this one. The Street of Sin. Paramount— a big Limehouse brute who is reduced to & Salvation Army lassic Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Metro-Goldwyn broken-heart-beneath-the-painted-smile trated this time by Lon Chaney and He Fazil. Fox—This days, when sheiks we I don’t think it would, The News Parade. For tries hard to be a thriller. The Magnificent Flirt. Paramount for Plorence Vidor's looks, and Albert C ner, this could be dismissed with a puff. Ladies of the Mob. Paramount—Clara to show anything but her ability as an a good, strong melodrama The Big Killing. ance, together, of Wallace Bee ton. '-Thank heaven, that’s 0 Ramona. United Artists—An effective tion of the old phrase, “I was bored to te beautiful to look at, though. Tempest. United Artists—John Barrymore as Russian evolutionist who fell’in love with a graad duchess. He is very good indeed, and so is the pac ture. Street Angel. Fox—The same stars and the same director as in “Seventh Heaven,” but not the samt degree of merit. His Tiger Lady. Poramount—Adolrhe Mens 1s 80 good he can make you enjoy anything—wdl almost anything. Across to Singapore. Novarro and Joan Crawford com; by brutal, bestial sailors. Mother Machree. For—Much better than the song of the same ni The Trail of 98. Metro-Goldwyn—The adventures of a group of gold-seekers, {rom ‘Prisco to Dewss City. Some of it is great. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Universal — The Laemm'e version of the Civil War. The End of St. Jammerstein; The Mas Who Laughs, Uv Paramoust, Sunrise, For—The best available. Lights of New York, Warner Bros., and Telling tht World, Mctro-Goldwyn—Reviewed in this issue. R. E. Sherwood. pleas with —One of mDOvie. Tem nel Barry. Another grippigg It's always as Richard ight have been goo in the popular, On second thou A nice little comedy that Paramount—The final appear and Raymond Hat its MetroGoldwyn—Raméa tely surrounded Catt comicbooks.com