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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE Drama More or Less Serious with George To be reviewed Caravan. Klaw—A melodrama, Marion, Kate Mayhew and others. later. Coquette. Maxine particular triumph of Hel week on Broadway. Diamond Lil. Royale —Honky-tonk melodrama about bad old New York, with Mae West acting very tough. Elmer Gantry. Gang War. Morosco—A play_by Willard Mack, with Anne Forrest and others, To be reviewed next week. Guns. IWallack’s—The first and, so far, tne noisiest gangster play of the season. The Ladder. Cort—There is a rumor that the backer of this show has cabled from Europe to bring the run to a close. He probably wants to float the Pompeii Telephone Co. The Silent House. heeby-jeeby drama. Strange Interlude. John Golden—A five-hour peek into the soul of Cosmic Woman. Could have been done in three, but seems to be doing very well as it is. Judith Anderson is the Woman. The Trial of Mary Dugan. Sam H. Harris—This long-lived melodrama is moving soon to the Century, besides riding off in all directions on the road. Comedy and Things Like That The Bachelor Father. the unmarried father fott's—Last week of this n Hayes'—that is, the last Playhouse—Reviewed in this issue. Shubert—Still a pretty good Belasco—The problem of ose chicks all come home to roost. A ing, thanks to June Walker, C. Aubrey ith and Geoffrey Kerr. The Big Pond. Bijox—A play by George Middle ton and A. E. Thomas, with Kenneth MacKenna, Doris Rankin and others, To be reviewed next week, Eva the Fifth. Little—By Kenyon Nicholson and cs Golden, with Claiborne Foster, To be reviewed er. The Front Page. Times Square—Reviewed in this issue. Gentlemen of the Press. Henry Miller's—News- paper comedy by Ward Morehouse, with John Cromwell, Helen Flint, Russel Crouse and others, To be reviewed next week. Heavy Traffic. Empire—By Arthur Richman, with Mary Boland and Reginald Mason. Opens’ Sep- tember Sth. To be reviewed later. He Understood Women. Belmont—With Hilda Spong, Peggy Allenby and others. To be reviewed next week, tom Lover. Forty- Ninth St—A_play man, with Edith Barrett, Romney Brent and others. Opens September Sth. “To be reviewed ater. Potiphar’s Wife. Crais—A play by Edgar Middie- ton. Opens September Sth. To be reviewed later. Relations. Masque—A comedy by Edward Clark, with the author, Barbara Brown, Horace Braham and others. To be reviewed next week. The Royal Family. Selwyn—Perhaps in all these new comedies there will be one to beat this, but we doubt it Skidding. Bayes—Not much one way or the other. Just a home comedy. The Song Writer. this issue. Volpone. Guild—There ought to be something more worth-while than this by now. It is pretty Renaissance, Forty-Eighth St—Reviewed in Eye and Ear Entertainment Black Birds of 1928. Ls -r4y—Colored revue which gives them all a run for thei: money. A Connecticut Yankee. i’anderbilt—This little old last year’s musical version of Mark Twain's story has enough good music and good kidding to keep in the list. Good Boy. Hammerstein's—With Eddie Buzzell, Barbara Newberry, Charles Butterworth. Hal Sher- man and others. Opens September Sth. To reviewed later. Good News. Forty-Sixth St—You probably have seen this anyway. Grand Street Follies. Booth—Containing some superlatively good imitations of Broadway stars. Present Arms. Mansfield—Charles King and Joyce Barbour in a nicely musicalized account of life among our brave boys in the tropics. Rain or Shine. Cohan—When Joe Cook is on you couldn't laugh harder. Rosalie. New Amsterdam—Jack Donahue and Marilyn Miller in a highly spectacular West Point. Mr. Donahue’s comedy is worth seeing. Scandals of 1928. A ‘Mr. White should have no trouble in holding the lead with Harry Richman, Prances Williams, Willie Howard, Tom Patricola and Ann Pennington. , Show Boat. Ziegfeld—More or less in a class by itself as musical comedy. Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan, Puck and White and Norma Terris. The Three Musketeers. Lyric—Very satisfactor romantic operetta, with Dennis King as the fourt! musketeer, Vanities of 1928. Earl Carroll—A combination of very funny comedy from W. C. Pields, Joe Prisco, Ray Dooley and her brother Gordon, with quite a bit of dirt, quite a lot of girls and other things in a descending scale. Robert Benchley. Silent Drama Recent Developments The Mysterious Lady, AMctro-Goldwyn—Greta Garbo as a Russian spy who falls in love with the young Austrian officer whose papers she has been sent to get. I found this extremely enjoyable. The Pertect Crime, F. B. O.—A talking picture in which the sound doesn't always match up with the action—but it's exciting, nevertheless. Lilac Time, First National—It isn’t so much that everything in this Colleen Moore war epic has been done before; the trouble is that it was all done much | of better the first time. ‘White Shadows in the South Seas, Metro-Goldwyn —Many scenes of native Kanaka life that are worthy of the maker of “Moana.” Some Hollywood melo- drama is mixed in, with good performances by Raquel Torres and Monte Blue. Lost in the Arctic, For—An interesting picture of a voyage of exploration, with views of polar bears, walruses and ice-packs, and a lot of extraneous sound. Beau Broadway, Metro-Goldwyn—Here is one movie that you can miss and never know the difference. Warming Up, Paramount—Richard Dix as a star itcher who pulls himself together in time to win the World Series. There's a phony sound accompani- ment on this one, too. Porbidden Hours, Metro-Goldwyn—Lukewarm romance in and about ‘a royal palace, with Ramén Novarro and Renée Adorée chasing each other hither and yon, to and fro and vice versa. Lights of New York, Warner Bros.—The first full length talking picture; worth seeing in spite of its acting and its plot. Telling the World, Metro-Goldwyn—As a news- Raper reporter who {ollows his sweetheart to China, William Haines continues to be the same irrepressible but likable pest. The Lion and the Mouse, Warner Bros.—A sprink- ling of spoken dialogue in an old-fashioned drama. Wheel of Chance, First National—Pine work by the fading Richard Barthelmess. The Cossacks, Metro-Goldwyn—I doubt that John Cavers is particularly proud of his participation in this. Faril, Fox—The story starts when the beautiful blonde ‘marries the ha: sheik, and then the situation becomes so impossible that ‘there's nothing left for either of them but death. Hit of the Show, F. B. 0.—Another broken- hearted clown, portrayed with considerable feeling by Joe E. Brown. An epic which would have been much more popular if its creators hadn't tried so hard to give it a box-office punch. Street Angel, For—A dull love story, involving Janet Gaynor and Charles Parrell. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Unirersol—"You may own mah body, Mista Legree, but mah sou! belon Carl Laemmie.”” eae fe The Racket, Paramount: The Man Wh Universal: The Bad of St. Petersburg, Hosea: Tempest, United Arti Sunrise, Fox, and Wings, Paramount—These are recommended. _ The Scarlet Lady, Columbia—Reviewed in this issue. R. E. Sherwood. Reading Matters Fact Tolstoy. By Henry Bailey Stevens. Crowell—A play in seven scenes based on the life of the Russias novelist. Best appreciated by those familiar with his works. Adventures of an African Slaver. Edited b; colm Cowley. Albert & Charles Boni— Canot was always in some sort of scrape; a shipwreck or a mutiny, it was a pirate raid on a village. A vigorous, exciting bool ously flustrated by Covarrabias. | Really. the nage were far better off chained up in the hold of Theolore Canot’s ship than amid the dangers of Africa. Fiction ‘The Figured Flame. By Jane Darrow. Century— How a young girl's artistic yearnings were stifed oy her mother—the sort of mother whose head was simply splitting whenever she was confronted with reality. Recommended for its excellent portrait the prudish nineties. Twopence Coloured. By Patrick Hamilton. Li. tle, Brown—In spite of an artificial, and often anzop ing, use of Capital Letters (“you were not likely to Succeed upon the Stage unless you Carried On with the Manager”), this novel of stage life is a fine ad sympathetic piece of work. Leave Me with a Smile. By Elliot White Spri Doubleday, Doran—Not the newest book on the lust, this story of a war hero's reconstruction days is ose the best. . Diversey. By MacKinlay Kantor, Cowsrd-Me Cann—Preposterous, crude, overambitious, this a+ tempted saga of Chicago is yet ~vorthy of your atte. tion if only for its oceasional flashes of real genius. Phoiniz. By Alan Sims. Little, Brown—Wha Menelaos entered Troy, Helen was nowhere to be found. says Phoinix, companion of Akhillect and should know, for he was there! To read ths classical fantasy is to meet again the Grecian bere, the children of the gods. Show Girl. By J.P. McEvoy. Simon & Schuster— A gay and gaudy burlesq' Broadway com; in the jazz manner, of tabloid clippings, opening night telegrams, and greeting-card sentiments, salted with wisecracks and peppered with sex. Recom mended to parishioners of Dr. Winchell. Mal. aptain Jerome; or, The Latitude of Love. By Macrkt Bedel. Viking—Literary lingerie: light, intimate, and full of what led Adam to eat the apple. Perry Githens. Song and Dance Sheets Yascha Michaelofisky’s Melody—Irving Berii's brandest-newest, glorifying a Russian song~ “But with all his wealth and fame, Yascha write: fhass't changed his name; You can tell ‘who wrote music, On the Copy stands the name of Yas Michaeloffsky.”” % Anything You Say—Not to be confused “What Da Say?" of the De Sylva. Brows sof Henderson score in the new Geo. White's "Scandal, This is a Walter Donaldson song. one of the “big with which he recently started in the publishing bar ness on his own. (Continued on next page) comicbooks.com