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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE The Theatre More or Less Serious Adventure, Repudlic—Wild West with Roberta Arnold. To be reviewed next week. Diamond Lil, Royale—The old-time Bowery as a vehicle for Mae West. Nothing at all dramatically but essential dinner-conversation material. Fast Life, Ambassador—A melodrama with Claud- ette Colbert, Chester Morris, Crane Wilbur and others. Reviewed in this issu Faust, Guild—Goethe’s drama in English transla- tion, with Helen Chandler, Dudley Digges, George Gaul and other Theatre Guilders. To be reviewed later. Gang War, Morosco—One or two exciting incident to Chicagoans shooting one another. Goin’ Home, Masque—Negro troops after the Armistice, with one of them confronted by a problem which at times makes a highly effective play. Jarnegan, Longacre—Reviewed in this issue. The Ladder, Cor!—Mr. Davis, the backer, has only about $30,000 more to lose on’ this before it closes ‘on Nov. Ist. The Light of Asia, Ham pden's—Walter Hampden's first offering of the season. To be reviewed later. Machinal, Plymouth—(Pronounced A poi : led tragedy, dealing with the Woman who couldn't Stand It Any Longer. Strange Interlude, John Golden—A great deal of to-do over the accomplishment of things which might have been done with less bother. Interesting as a tour de force The Unknown Warrior, Charles Hopkins—To be reviewed later. The War Song, National—With George Jessel as the boy who went to a war he didn’t care about, To be reviewed next week. Comedy and Things Like That The Big Fight, Majestic—Supposedly the last week of this limited engagement of Mr, Jack Dempsey. If business has been good, however, you can probably see it next week, By Request, Hudson—By and with the Nugents. To be reviewed next week. The Command Performance, Klaw—With Ian Keith, Beatrice Terry and others. To be reviewed next week. Elmer the Great, Lyccum—Reviewed in this issue. Eva the Fifth, Little—Claiborne Poster in an amusingly slight affair dealing with a stranded Tom's Gabin™ troupe. The Front Page, Times Square—Exciting times among Chicago police-court reporters, with a great many words used which you have never heard outside your own home. A swell show. Gentlemen of the Press, Henry Miller's—Some true-to-life side-lights on a newspaper office, with enough of the newspaper office's pathos to make it all-around entertainment. Heavy Traffic, Empire—Some of the more sordid phases of Park Avenue life, containing a considerable number of laughs and Mary Boland. The High Road, Fulton—Genteel and well-acted Lonsdale comedy which is at its best when it is not beingfunny. The cast, including Edna Best, Herbert Marshall and Frederick Kerr, make it something which should be seen. Night Hostess, Mortin_Beck—More goings-on in the wicked night-clubs. Effective in spots. Paris, Music Bor—A play with music and Irene Bordon’. To be reviewed next week. _, Pleasure Man, Biltmore—Should be seen quickly if at all, for it may be closed. To be reviewed, if necessary, next week. Possession, Booth—With Margaret Edna Hibbard and Walter Connolly. viewed next week. Relations, Wallack's—Regulation Jewish trade- talk, Good if you like it. The Royal Family, Selwyn—Last week. miss it. Skidding, Boyes—Nothing much. The Song Writer, Forty- in its class, which rele Jewish boy who makes good and has sopples. ments Lawrence, To be re- Don't Straight Thru the Door, Forty- Ninth St.—William Hodge in a comedy melodrama, To be reviewed later. This Thing Called Love, Maxine Elliott—Violet Heming in a comedy with a good idea, several good scenes and a mixture of things not so good. When Crummles Played, Garrick—To be reviewed later. Eye and Ear Entertainment Billie, Erlanger's—A musical version of “Broadway ones" by George M. Cohan. With Polly Walker, Robinson Newbold and others, To be reviewed ater. Blackbirds of 1928, Liberty—Some superlatively good stuff, executed by Negro singers and dancers. Chee-Chee, Mansfeld—A musical version of “The Son of the Grand Eunuch” by Fields, Rodgers and Hart. With Helen Ford, George Hassell and Betty Starbuck. To be reviewed next week. A Connecticut Yankee, Vanderbili—The Pields- Rodgers-Hart opera which has become so well estab- lished that it scems a fixture, William Gaxton and Constance Carpenter. Cross My Heart, Knickerbocker—With Lulu McConnell, Mary Lawlor and others. To be re- viewed next week. Good Boy, Hommerstcin's—A good show. involving some scenic novelties, a song hit, Eddie Buzzell an aries Butterworth, Helen Kane and Barbara Newberry. Good News, Forty-Sixth St.—Now playing in every English-speaking city, or eise just about to. Hold Everything, Broadhurst—With Victor Moore, Ona Munson, Bert Lahr and others. To be reviewed ater. Luckee Girl, Casino—With Doris Vinton, Harry Puck and others. To be reviewed next week. The New Moon, Imperial —Real old-fashioned musical comedy for a change, well staged and well danced. With Evelyn Herbert, Gus Shy and Robert Halliday. Rain or Shine, Cohan—Joe Cook still working his mechanical orchestra in the face of all competition. Rosalie, New Amsterdam—Nearing the end of its run, after which the provinces will have a chance to see Marilyn Miller and Jack Donahue. Scandals of 1928, A follo—Mr. White has here one of the best of his’series, involving the services of Harry Richman, Prances Williams, Willie Howard, Tom Patricola and Ann Pennington. Show Boat, Zier/eld—You should see this just to be able to say that you have, Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan, Puck and White, Norma Terris and Edna May Oliver. Three Cheers, Globe—The Pred Stone show with Will Rogers pinch-hitting for Pred Stone. Opens October 14th. The Three Musketeers, Lyric—Good rousin, eretta, with Dennis King for singing and Lester for comedy. Vanities of 1928, Ear! Carroll—No show for tender minds but a very’ funny one in spots, particularly Fields spots and those of Joe Prisco. Robert Benchley. The Movies Recent Developments The Singing Fool, Warner Bros.—Al Jolson at his own superlative best, in a talking picture that con- tains all the irresistible hokum of all the mammy songs that Jolson ever sang. His supporting cast is excellent, with a startlingly good performance by a child named David Lee. The Camera Man, Metro-Goldwyn—The comical misadventures of a boob news-reel photographer, enacted by the unclassifiable Buster Keaton. Submarine, Columbio—Jack Holt and others in an uncomfortably grim melodrama of undersea disaster. State Street Sadie, Warner Bros.—Some of it is spoken dialogue, and those portions wherein the most noise is made happen to be the most excitin; The Air Circus, Fox—Two high school boys pe mn It is a pleasant and California and learn to fy; one isa natural aviator, and the other is yellow. commendably unpretentious picture, exceedingly well play op Hen The Cardboard Lover, Metro-Goldwyn—A comp spondent writes to say I am wron; * Marion Davies’ performance in t Orst pen formance ever given. “*Miss Davies’ performance a ‘The Pair Co-Ed,’ says the correspondent, to stand as the worst performance ever given.” sounds like the beginning of a good debate. The Terror, Warner Bros.—Creepy melodrama iz an old English inn, featuring audible screams by May McAvoy and Louise Fazenda. Four Walls, Metro-Goldwyn—John Gilbert as the hero of an interesting if not always credible ero story. He is ably assisted by Joan Crawford. Lilac Time, Fi i combinatix e Big Wings,” "The Legion of ts Condemned” and’ “Flaming Youth,” with Colles Moore about as usual. The Mysterious Lady, Metro-Goldwyn—The tir has come for me to break down and confess that I's rather partial to Greta Garbo. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Universal—The eternal road show is still packing them in. The Patriot, Paramount, The Racket, Paramou and Tempest, United Artists—These are worth you [J attention. Mother Knows Best, For, and Docks of New Yet Paramount—Reviewed in this issue. Thir R. E. Sherwood. oor bezel dian dial H hat Reading Matters me Non-Fiction fn The Twilight of the American Mind, by Walter RID cabs Pitkin. Simon & Schuster—Some observation fh yx, the critical condition of the intelligents, including s preview of that “whither” toward which everythy fy is drifting. rele Get Wise to Yourself! by Anderson Collett af jobs Emerson. Washburn—A not too serious tabo lation of those physical signs which are supposed t indicate character. Should be part of every party. Spy and Counter-Spy, by Richard Wilmer Rows, Viking—A history of secret history, recommended » all hardened souls who think that most det stories and all peace treaties are just a little silly. Fiction Destiny Bay, by Donn Byrne. Little, Browe= Your last chance to see that wondrous Irelasd, peopled with splendid and romantic figures, whi existed in the rich and colorful prose of the lat Donn Byrne. Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pei Fou. set Charles Pettit, Liveright—Delectable trivialities by the author of “The Son of the Grand Eunuch. wa Murder, by Evelyn Johnson and Gretta Palne ; Covici-Friede — With incredible ingenuity, absolut honesty, and not a little humor, the authors baw Ay provided a collection of crimes, with separate sole tions, which will afford more amusement to amatez ter detectives than any other book. : Squad, by James B. Wharton. Coward-McCoxe= 10 A story of the war so desperately realistic that te lit harrowed reader deserves service stripes for accom plishing it. Be warned that this is no tale of bape: wa go-lucky escapades, but a stark, bloody chronicled py eight men and death. Babe Evanson, by Catharine Brod: sh authoritative exposure of stenograp! York with a pretty but pathetic central fig Ar yearns for better things but never makes the grade pr ‘ Yes—Yes ‘i m 20 Hrs. 40 Min.—Our Flight in the “‘Priendstin’® [© by Amelia Earhart, Frobisher, by Wilus Bin, McPee... ... The Perfect Ship, by Weston Marty. ... » The Top Kick, by Leonard Nason. .... Sbee vo Giri, by J. P. McEvoy. Storming Heaves,ty F, Ralph Pox. .... Day of Fortune, by Norman Mate . ++. Twopence Coloured, by Patrick Hamilton. ge Perry Githens. Gr we (“Song and Dance” will be found 0s : ge 28. Tik comicbooks.com