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7 y CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE The Theatre More or Less Serious Adventure, Republic—Old-time Western, with Roberta Arn The Common Sin, Forrest—A new one by Willard Mack. To be reviewed later. Courage, Rits—A play by Tom Barry, with Janet Beecher. To be reviewed later Diamond Lil, Royale—Mae West still under the impression that she has got a great show here, an impression fostered by a lot of customers. Faust, Guild—The Theatre Guild opening its season with Goethe. To be reviewed next week. Goin’ Home, Masque—Some excellent moments in a drama of post-Armistice France and the Negro section of the A. E. P. The Grey Fox, Playhouse—To be reviewed lat Jarnegan, Longacre—Richard Bennett in a w tirade against Hollywood which has one good act out of a possible three. The Ladder, Cort—Two more weeks in which to see why you are going to be born again. Kindness of Mr. Edgar Davis. The Light of Asia, Ham pden's—Walter Hampden's opening production’ of the season, To be reviewed next week. Machinal, Plymouth—One of the few things of the new season which really ought to be seen. Pinely depressing. Strange Interlude, John Golden—If this can draw crowds as it is doing with its five hours of alternate greatness and junk, O'Neill's ultimate magnu™ opus Ought to run forever. The Unknown Warrior, Charles Hopkins—To be reviewed later. The War Song, National—George Jessel as the Jewish boy who was forced to take the War seriously. ‘A lot of good stuff here among the other things. Comedy and Things Like That By Request, HHudson—Reviewed in this issue. The Command Performance, Klaw—With Ian Keith, Beatrice Terry, Lee Baker and others. To be reviewed next week. Elmer the Great, Lyceum—Ring Lardner’s epic baseball stories transformed as by a miracle into a very ordinary play. Walter Huston helps by a per- fect performance. Eva the Fifth, Littl—Pleasan} little troubles of an “Uncle Tom's Cabin” troupe. Claiborne Poster heads the cast. The Ffont Page, Times Square—Red-hot news- paper comedy mélodrama, involving practically everything, including high entertainment. Gentlemen of the Press, Forty-Eighth St.—A quieter school of newspaper comedy, amusing and sad in spots. Heavy Traffic, Henry Miller—Cocktails and sin- ning along Park Avenue, with several funny lines thrown in by Mary Boland, Reginald Mason and A. E. Matthews. The High Road, Fulton—Very nice British comedy, conventional at first, but turning into something fine shortly after nine-thirty. An excellent cast, includ- ing Edna Best, Herbert Marshall and Predenick Kerr. Little Accident, Morosco—With Thomas Mitchell, Kay Johnson and others. To be reviewed later. Mr. Moneypenny, Liberty—Channing Pollock's new play, with Donald Meek, Hale Hamilton, Ruth Nugent and others. To be reviewed later. Night Hostess, Martin Beck—Continuing night-club murder saga. Olympia, Empire—A new Molnar comedy, with Fay Compton, Laura Hope Crews and others. To be reviewed later. Paris, Music Box—Irene Bordoni in a play with Cole Porter's music. To be reviewed later. Pleasure Man, Biltmore—Reviewed in this issue. Possession, Booth—Reviewed in this issue. Relations, Wallack's—Business troubles done in Jewish talk. Minor entertainment. Skidding, Bayes—If you don’t see this you will never know the difference. i Straight Thru the Door, Forty- Ninth St.—William Hodge's comedy melodrama. To be reviewer! next week. This Thing Called Love, Maxine Elliott's—Violet Heming in badinage about marriage, some of it good. ‘When Crummles Played, Garrick—Out of Dickens. To be reviewed next week. Young Love, Bijou—To be reviewed later. the Eye and Ear Entertainment Billie, Frianger’s—A Cohan musical show, with Polly Walker, Robinson Newbold and others. ‘To be reviewed later. Black Birds of 1928, Eltinge—Some swell stuff from colored singers and dancers. Chee-Chee, Mansfeld—Reviewed in this issue A Connecticut Yankee, Vanderbilt—One of the old ones which is still good. Cross My Heart, Knickerbocker—Not one of the best, in spite of good dancing and Lulu McConnell Good Boy, Hammerstcin's—Eddie Burrell, Charles Butterworth, Barbara Newberry and Helen Kane in a good all-round show, with special scenic effects. Good News, Forty-Sixth St.—You tell us about this one. Hold Everything, Broadhurst—With Victor Moore, Ona Munson, Bert Lahr and others, To be reviewed ater. Luckee Girl, Casino—One of the ones you can miss. The New Moon, Jmperial—A beautiful production of a real old-time musical comedy, with Evelyn Her- bert, Gus Shy, and some original chorus work. Rain or Shine, Cohan—Maybe we have mentioned that Joe Cook is funny. Rosalie, New Amsterdam—Last week of Marilyn Miller and Jack Donahue in this particular one of ir. Ziegfeld’s successes. Scandals of 1928, A pollo—The customarily satisfac- tory George White parade of stars, including Harry Richman, Frances Williams, Willie Howard, Tom Patricola ‘and Ann Pennington. Show Boat, Zice/eld— You'll sce this anyway. The cast still includes Charles Winninger, Heen kiorgan. Puck and White, Jules Bledsoe and Edna May Oliver. Three Cheers, Globe—Will Rogers in Pred Stone's place. To be reviewed later. The Three Musketeers, Lyric—Resounding and romantic, with Dennis King and Lester Allen. hubert—With Luella Gear, Buster ent and others. To be reviewed course, very funny. So is Joe Frisco. The rest of the show is fair and pretty dirty. White Lilacs, Jolson’s—One of those high-class Shubert musicals about the private life of a composer, this time Chopin. With Guy Robertson, Odette Myrtil and DeWolf Hopper. Robert Benchley. The Movies Recent Developments ‘The Singing Fool, Warner Bros.—Al Jolson's voice rings out through the Vitaphone and’ charges this tearfully sentimental picture with the thrill of reality. It's much better than "The Jazz Singer.” Mother Knows Best, Fox—An appreciative inter- pretation of an unusual story which is practically ruined by one awful Movietone sequence. Dresser is great. Docks of New York, Paramount—Gcorge Bancroft in a stuttering melodrama of the water front, directed with his usual effectiveness by Josef von Sternberg. ‘The Camera Man, Metro-Goldwyn—A very funny exposé of the news-reel industry, with Buster Keaton as a hapless sap. Submarine, Columbia—The grim story of a deep- sea diver whose rival is trapped in a sunken sub- marine. It is exciting, but a bit too realistic at times. The Cardboard Lover, Metro-Goldwyn— Marion Davies on an unbridled romp. State Street Sadie, Warner Bros.—Another crook melodrama, with some good talking and sound sequence: The Air Circus, For—Showing what happens when two high-school ‘boys become bitten by the Lind- bergh bug—and very entertaining, too. Lilac Time, First National—They have even man- aged to involve Colleen Moore in the Great War. _ The Terror, Warner Bros—May McAvoy screams in one key, and Louise Pazenda in another, and Edward Everett Horton, is the whimsical detective from Scotland Yard. It's all-talking. Four Walls, Metro-Goldwyn—John Gilbert gives a good performance as a pathetic criminal. The Mysterious Lady, Metro-Goldwyn—This strongly recommended (a) because Greta Garbo is in it, and (6) because Greta Garbo is in it. Louise Uncle Tom's Cabin, Universal—The; this one with sound accompaniment vention so new that it can’t be used on "U ‘ab The Racket, Paramount, Tempest, United Arti and The Patriot, Paramount—You should sce thee Excess Baggage, Metro-Goldwyn, and Th ts Ia, Paremouns“Reviewed in this issue. ne "eet R. E. Sherwood. Reading Matters Non-Fiction Tamerlane, by Harold Lamb, McBride—aAll the romance, most of the facts, and a good deal of the color and vigor of the great 12th century conqueror are here available for those who sigh when Samarkand is mentioned. Help Yourself! by Doris Webster and Mary Ald Hopkins. Century—Parlor psychoanalysis of more uproarious Variety. Cursory Rhymes, by Humbert Wolfe. Dowbledey, Doran—Whether these qualify as verse or poetry good or bad, I haven't the least idea. Al! | can ay is that I snjoved them, in a moment of weaknes, and so, maybe, will you. Roamin’ in the Gloamin’, by Sir Har Lippincott—Sir Harry's autobiography is him—and that's recommendation enough. Fiction Applause, by Beth Brown. Liverish starts out to be raw meat about the burlesk t ends up rather ham, or I should say, baloney that, it's pretty good baloney, but Buriesk is stil waiting for its biographer, Death Near the River, by Monte Cooper. Holl— Without recourse to the usual mystery story props this yarn of the lower Mississippi has that appre hensive feeling in the very beginning, and manages to atay gimister through every page. The Queen's Husband, by Robert BE. Sherwood. Scribner's—Even without bevefit of Roland Young, this play of a dominating queen and her lika! he band retains most of its gentle satire, and all of it subtle humor. Harness, by Hamilton Gibbs. Little, Browe— The author of “Soundings” continues to create real people who thereafter take care of themselves. Hew, the adventures in marriage of an English ex-officer and an actress seta new standard for one whost work was already high, The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A Dution—Christopher Rodin and his friends. Pooh Bear, are with us again, and the hearty cheering you hear is from fathers and tmothers who have fousd a new answer to the big question, “ ‘N then what happened to, Winnie-the-Pook, Pahpah?. "thes what, then what, then what, Pahpab?™ Recommended The Twilight of the American Mind, by Walter B Pitkin. Spy and Counter-Spy, by Richart Wilmer Rowa: . Destiny Bay, by Donn Byre. 7 Murder, by Bvelyn Jokinson and. Greta Palmer... . . Squad, by James B. Wharton 20 Hrs. 40 Min.—Our Flight in the “Friendship,” br Amelia Earhart... . . Frobisher, by William McPee The Pertect Ship, by Weston Martyr ‘The Top Kick, by Leonard Nason... . . Show Girt, by J. P. McEvoy... . . Storming Heaven, by Ralp> Fox. . | . . Day of Fortune, by Norman Matson. . .- Twopence Coloured, by Patrick Hamilton Perry Githens. Song and Dance Sheet Music Be Happy in Your Dreams. Harms—It this Rhilosopbical ballad, from the latest operetta in the Messrs, Shubert’s “Music Masters series, | sou’ much like “I'm Always Chasing Rainbows,” doa% forget that that yesteryear song biti freely—very |—"‘adapted” from Chopin Impromptu in P. Since “White Lilacs,’ (Continued on page 34) comicbooks.com