Life — September 28, 1928 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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24 LIFE ; CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE The Theatre More or Less Serious Diamond Lil, Royale—Mae West in a melodrama ‘of tough old New York which seems to please a lot of people, including Miss Vi Gang War, Morosco—Intramural murdering in the Chicago sector, with now and then several loud reports. Goin’ Home, Hudion—A moving presentation of the problem of the Negro who married a Prench girl. Some colored A. E. P. whoopee on the side. The Great Power, Rits—To be reviewed next week. Guns, IWallack"s—Just about what you might guess from the title. Another gangster drama. Jarnegan, Loncacre—A dramatization of the novel, starring Richard Bennett. To be reviewed later. The Ladder, Cort—> soon for us. Machinal, Plymouth—Reviewed in this issue. Strange Interlude. John Golden Proving that eople don't have to be entertained in the theatre dere a rather cold interest holds you through fivi hours of uneven drama. jovember first can’t come too Trapped, Netional—Reviewed in this issue. The War Song, Sam H. Harris—Georse Jessel. To be reviewed later. Comedy and Things Like That The Bachelor Father, Belasco—A nice handling of a delicate situation in which a bachelor’s vari children come home to Daddy. June Walker, C. Aubrey Smith and Geoffrey Kerr. The Big Fight, Majestic—With Jack Dempsey and Estelle Taylor. ‘To be reviewed later. The Big Pond, Hijou—Diverting comedy with a better than execution. Kenneth MacKenna plays a Prenchman who goes Babbitt. The Command Performance, Klaw—With Tan Leith. Charlotte Granville and ‘others. To be re- viewed later. Elmer the Great, Lyceum—Prom Ring Lardner's baseball stories. with Walter Huston. To be re- viewed later. Eva the Fifth, Littl—An “Uncle Tom's Cabin" troupe in light’ but amusing trouble. Claiborne Poster heads the cast. The Front Page, Times Square—High-pressure a dealing with profane newspaper- ‘You've xot to sce it anyway; so you might as well try to get in now. Gentlemen of the Press, Henry Miller’s—Real life in a newspaper office. with enough comedy to make up for its essential pathos Heavy Traffic, Empire—Reviewed in this issue. He Understood Women, Belmont—Zero. The High Road, Fulton—Reviewed in this issue. Night Hostess, Martin Beck—To be reviewed next week. The Phantom Lover, Forty- Ninth St.—A nice idea smothered in words. Possession, Booth—Opens October 1. viewed later. To be re- Relations, Masque—Not much, unless you don't care what is said so long as it is said in Jewish dialect. Ringside, Broadhurst—Inside fight-dope, with a good fight at the end. The Royal Family, Selweyn—Por those who didn’t see this last year our advice is to go by all means. Skidding, Bayes—Pretty thin broth. The Song Writer, Forty- Eighth St.—Georgie Price as the Jewish boy who made good. Sentimental and highly ‘satisfactory to a large section of the com- munity. This Thing. Called Love, Maxine Elliott's— With Violet Heming and others, To be reviewed next week. Eye and Ear Entertainment Black Birds of 1928, Liberty—Containing some of the best dancing in town, with songs to match. The best colored revue since “Shuffle Along.” Chee-Chee, Mansfeld—With Helen Pord and George Hassell. To be reviewed later. A Connecticut Yankee, Vanderdilt—One of last season's—and this season's—best scores. Cross My Heart, Knickerbocker—With | Lulu McConnell, Eddie Conrad and others. To be re- viewed later. Good Boy, Hammerstein's—Reviewed in this issue. Good News, Forty-Sixth St—You can see this in London, too—in fact. almost anywhere. Luckee Girl, Casino—With Harr Vinton and others. To be reviewed later. The New Moon, Imperia!—With Evelyn Herbert, Gus Shy, and others. To be reviewed later. Rain or Shine, Cohan—Still Joe Cook. New Amsterdam—Some of the city's best , with scenic effects by presents satis: Puck, Doris A pollo—George White Harry Richman, Prances Williams, Will Tom Patricola and Ann Pennington in hig! factory entertainment. Show Boat, Ziee/eld—Something you should see once. Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan, Puck and orma Terris and Edna May Oliver. The Three Musketeers, Lyric— antic ope th 2, Vanities of 1928, Ear! Carroll—Pretty raw in spots bat very funny in others, thanks to W. C. Pields and Joe Frisco. White Lilacs, |S Odette Myrtil and next week, uberti—With DeWolf Hopper. y Robertson. To be reviewed Robert Benchley. The Movies Recent Developments reus, For—A refreshingly youthful and pleasantly entertaining picture about two high- school boys who decided to emulate Lindbergh, with some excellent talking scenes at the finish, The Cardboard Lover, MetroGoldweyn—I may as well break down and confess that I think Marion Davies is just simply awful in thi The Terror, Warner Bros—An all-talkic which deals with the nefarious activities of a homicidal maniac inand about anoldinn, It is very well done, Four Walls, Metro-Goldwyn—John Gilbert as a repentant crook in a moderately interesting melo- drama. The Scarlet Lady, Columbio—A palooka. The Butter and Egg Man, First National—Jack Mulhall in another Jack Mulhall farce. The Mysterious Lady, Metro-Goldwyn—I haven't yet heard from the cad who wrote me an anonymous letter insulting the divine Greta Garbo. Lilac Time, First National—Colleen Moore and a bevy of jolly ‘British aviators in a war-time romp. Forgotten Faces, Paramount—A splendidly acted and dramatically told story of how a crook saved his daughter from her mother. White Shadows in the South Seas, Metro-Goldwyn —Convincing views of the Kanaka brown men staggering under the white man’s burden, with fine work by Monte Blue and Raquel Torres. Lights of New York, Warner Bros.—The fact that this 1s a pioneer in a new field absolves it from most of the blame which is its just due. Wheel of Chance, First Nationel—Richard Bar- thelmess at or close to his best. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Universal—Wars may come, and wars may go, but this goes on forever. The Patriot, Paramount; The End of St. Peters- burg, Hammerstein; The Racket, Paramount, and Tempest, United Artists—These are all worthy. Submarine, Columbia, and State Street Sadie, Warner Bros.—Reviewed in this issue. R. E. Sherwood. The Air Reading Matters Fact 20 hrs. 40 min.—Our Flight in the “Priendshi Amelia Earhart. Pateam's—A rather sketchy eat biography turns into inter ve. pleased to report that Miss iS possessed well-developed senses of humor and proportion Spy and Counter-Spy, by Richard Wilmer Viking—The Outline of Secret History of-fact exposition which is more absor! fiction. Frobisher, by William McPee. biography of the pron should be on your “must _ Long Lance, by Chief Buffalo Child Long Lasee Cosmopolitan—Indian stuff; so good you can ber the war drun The Perfect Ship, by V he biography of a boat wh: xd deal of salt air and Recommended to yachts: alike. Fascinating Women—Sacred and Pranz Blei, Simon & Schuster— a @ popular subject Profane, by Fiction The Front Page, by Ben Hecht MacArthur. Corici-Friele—The news in book form. Uncensored. its ¢ not for the eyes of dear old iadies—male ¢ The Ghost Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, through automatic writing b Authorshi for wisecracks in any company. Hafiz, by Clarence K. gerald did for Omar ¥ for H. that other Persian, with equally pleasing results The Silk Stocking Murders, by Anthony Berke Doubleday, Doran—Pretty good The Swinging Shutter, by C. Dution—Not so very. Kick, by Leonard H. Nason Doran—War stuff, and very pox! D, fought the Battle of South Bost: Tammany Boy, by Dermot is impossible to tell whether the wnt or Alocratic. In any event, his depi in the great big. wicked city ing—nor important Storming Heaven, —Youth in the Viking—What Pits Praser-Simson. D. if we judge at. court, Brect <a book d . by Norman Mat Centar its interpretation of t ttle Clown Lost, by Barry Benefi —Dear, sweet, sentimental, whims: Simon Diversey, by MacKinlay Kantor Twopenct Coloured, by Patrick Hamiltos Perry Githens. Song and Dance Sheet Music Revenge—Despite its forbidding title, a bi ching lyric romance has been evolved from t appellation of the new Dolores Del Rio flicker feat Like “Ramona,” which was infinitely a better than picture. the “Revenge” number will do eed for the picture in the way of favorable advast ballyhoo. In a Little Love Nest (‘Way Up on thi johnny Tucker, erstwhile “singing fireman New York smoke-eaters, recently obtained a ye? leave of absence to concentrate on conquering royalty smoke of Tin Pan Alley. When Tete fashioned a nonsense ditty, “ Maggie! Yes, Meus! comicbooks.com eH EEG | ao RET Sa LE eo