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CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE The Theatre More or Less Serious The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton novel, Arnold Korfl, Rollo Peters and Nov. 26. Diamond Lil, Royale—The continued success of this Mae West melodrama depends on how long it is the smart thing to attend in slumming parties. Exceeding Small, Comedy—Two young people having a pretty tough time at the hands of Fate. Very well done and good for an evening's cry. Gods of the Lightning, Little—A stirring bit of drama salvaged fr cco-Vanzetti case. Should compulsory. rey Fox, Playhouse—Henry Hull telli, with Chrystal Herne to bot 4 production of a pretty histor Jarnegan, Longacre—A cursing in to Richaré wood what he thinks of it Jealous; at's—Pay Bainter and John Halliday doi ‘le piece of work in carrying a whole play by themse! The Living Corpse (or *' dor—Tolstoi's play in German, Reinhardt, with Alexander Moissi more wee Macbeth, Knickerbocker—With Florence Reed. Lyn Harding. William Farnum and others, To be reviewed later. Machinal, Plymouth—A moving tragedy of the woman who found herself in the clectric chair because she disliked her husband sufficiently to kill him. One of the best things in town. Major Barbara, Guild—A revival of Sha with Dudley Digkes, Winifred Lenihan an To be reviewed later. A Man with Red Hair, Gari made into a drama of sadi: week Revolt, Vanderdilt—Reviewed in this issue The Royal Box, Belmont—With Walker Whiteside. To be reviewed later. The Sacred Flame, Henry Miller's—By Somerset Maugham, with Clare Eames, Stanley Logan and others. To be reviewed later. The Squealer, Forrest—A Barbary Coast. " To be review Strange Interlude, John Golden— lengthy clinic over a woma: asides. Sun-Up, Lucille LaVerne—This ran a long time when it was first produced. Miss LaVerne is now reviving it as her most successful réte These Days, Cor!—To be reviewed n Tin Pan Alley, Bilimore—Reviewed i i Tonight at 12, Hudson—With Anne Sho Moffat Johnson ‘and others. To be reviewex week. The War Song, National—George Jessel his public as the boy who wasn’t crazy abou to war. Comedy and Things Like That Courage, Ritz—Janct Beecher and innumerable children in a moderately good play about Mother- hood. Crashing Through, Republic—Not one of the sea- son's importa: om s. The Front Page, Times Sguare—A madhouse of a comedy-melodrama and a full evening's entertain- ment. Gentlemen of the Press, Forty-Eighth St—Good newspaper stuff. especially pleasurable to those who used to be newspaper men themselves. The High Road, Pulion—Edna Best. Herbert Mar- shall, Frederick Kerr and other excellent English actors in a comedy by Lonsdale which gets much better as it goes along. Hotbed, Klaw—To be reviewed next week. The Jealous Moon, Majestic—By and with Jane Cowl. Philip Merivale and Sir Guy Standing are also in it, To be reviewed later. Little Accident, Morosco—The subject of involun- tary parenthood treated with high good humor and excellent effect. Thomas Mitchell and Katherine Alexander head the cast Mima, Belasco—Adapted from Molnar's, “The Ulric, Sidney Blackmer and pted from the ine Cornell, others. Opens s Machia- beautiful "s play, others —The Walpole nove! To be reviewed next jodrama of th. old Eugene O'Neill's soul, with explanatory Red Mill,” with Len others. To be reviewed later. Mr. Moneypenny, Liberty—Modernistic morality play. divulging the information that Money is a bad thing. Night Hostess, Martin Beck—Dirty work among the gamblers. All right if you aren't tired of seeing the inside of New York night- On Call, Waldorf—To be reviewed later. Paris, Music Bor—What with Irene, Bordoni and a good jazz band playing Cole Porter's music, you forget that the play isn’t much. Relations, Wallack"s—Never mind this one. Skidding, Bayes—Very mild. | These Few Ashes, Booth—Reviewed in this issue. This Thing Called Lovey Bijou Violet Heming in a comedy about marriage which has enough good points to get by The Yellow Jacket, Coburn—The Coburns in a revival of the ofd favorite. Young Love, Masgue—Reviewed in this issue. Eye and Ear Entertainment Animal Crackers, Forty-Fourth St.—The Brothers in another riot of clowning. Billie, Erlanger’s—Polly Walker as the star of Mr. Cokan’s current Cohan musical. Black Birds of 1928, Eitinge—By virtue of some excellent singing and dancing, this colored revue is still very near the top. Good Boy, Hammerst. can take a chance 0; terworth, Helen Kane and others. Good News, Forty-Sixth St—Over a year now. Hello Yourself, Casino—More college stuff, with Waring’s “Pennsylvanians” to lend authority. Hold Everything, Broadhurst—Bert Lahr and Vic- tor Moore are comical and Ona Munson and Jack Whiting good on the singing and dancing. Alto- gether 0. K Luckee Git Marx 's—One of the shows you ‘ddie Buzzell, Charles But- Not much. d all-arou! with Evel Sam H. Harris— in, Imperial—Go dy. beautifully produce¢ s Shy and Robert Halliday. Rainbow, Gallo—Book by Laurence Stallings, music by Vincent Youmans, with Louise Brown, Charles Ruggles and Harlan Dixon. Rain or Shine, Cohan—The Joe Cook show you have heard so much about. Scandals of 1928, A pollo—Out of such a list as Harry Richman, Prances Williams, Willie Howard, Tom Patricola and Ann Pennington you ought to find a good evening's entertainment. Show Boat, Ziegfeld—Nothing much seems to affect the popularity of this Ziegfeld ace. Charles Win- ninger. Helen Morgan, Puck and White, Edna May Oliver, Jules Bledsoe and Norma Terns. This Year of Grace, Selwyn—Beatrice Lillie and Noel Coward in the latter's show. To be reviewed next week. : Three Cheers, Globe—Will Rogers makes this one something to be'seen. The Three Musketeers, Lyric—Dennis King and Lester Allen in what is getting to be an old favorite. Treasure Girl, Alrin—Gertrude Lawrence, Walter Catlett. Mary Hay. Clifton Webb and others, with Gershwin music. To be reviewed next week. Ups-a-Daisy, Shubert—Satisfactory entertainment, with Luella Gear, Marie Saxon, Buster West and Fart Cerroll—Plenty of comedy Joe Prisco and Ray Dooley. Pretty rough in spots. White Lilacs, Jolson—Genteel operetta based on the life of Chopin. Guy Robertson, Odette Myrtil and DeWolf Hopper. ‘Whoopee, New Amsterdam—The Eddie Cantor show. ns November 26. Repertory and Laboratory Civic Repertory, Fourteenth St—Eva Le Gallienne repeating her success of last year. Repertory in- cludes: “The Would-Be Gentleman,” “L'Invitation au Voyage, res Orchard.” ta dhe Dark Mirror, reviewed ater. The Final Balance, Provincetown—To be reviewed later. Robert Benchley. herry Lane—To The Movies Recent Developments The Home Towners, Warner Bros.—A George M- Cohan comedy. played by a good cast. with spoken dialogue all the way, It provides pleasant entertain- ment, but is inclined to drag. Varsity, Paramount—The somewhat sad story of a Princeton sophomore who drank too much, and of whimsical old janitor who was, secretly, the boy's father. Chester Conklin is fine but the talking se- quences are terrible. While the City Sleeps, MetroGoldwyn—In thy underworld melodrama (somewhat exciting, tome what dull) Lon Chaney appears for once on the ste of law and order. The Mating Call, Paramount—Thomas Meighs'y splendid as a war veteran who gets a raw deal foo his sweetheart and from the Ku Klux Klan. ~ Me, Gangster, Fox—Too much moralizing on the well-known wages of sin, with some c: orous direction Uy Raoul Waish. Our Dancing Daughters, Metro-Goldwyn—This » the big box-office smash of the season, thanks larguy to the amazing and persistent popularity of tex Four Devils, Fox—The lives of four turn out to be acrobats, told with } bniliance, but too tritely and at too great The Battle of the Sexes, United Artists—| Haver as a relentless gold-digger. and Jean Her as the purveyor of the heavy sugar—and a beer combination you couldn't hope to se Excess Baggage, Metro-Goldwyn—The manual troubles of a small-time vaudeville team. wth a cellent. performances by William Haines and Js sephine Dunn. The Fleet's In, Paramount—When the of Uncle Sam's Navy go ashore, th for Clara Bow, and no wonder. Docks of New York, Paramount— raphy and good, rugged acting, but not story. Mother Knows Best, Fos—One M: quence is enough to ruin this otherwise picture of mother love at its worst. The Air Circus, For—There's a M quence in this one, too, but it fits in nice The Camers-Man, Metro-Goldwyn—B: is very funny and, at times, gexuinely sad. Lilac Time, First National—In case you the previous ‘war pictures, here is a rch them, with Colleen Moore added { cuteness. The Singing Fool, Werner Bros. and The Patrst, Paramount—On the “must” list. The Wedding March, Paramount, a: tini, Fox—Reviewed in this issbe, R. E. Sherwood, Reading Matters Non-Fiction The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, by Isaac Gold berg. Simon & Schuster—An elaborate biography ¢ the famous collaborators who did so much to rit Victorianism. A little too soggy for general read Solitaire Bridge, by Samuel Mitchell. Sear ystem which makes it possible to lose yourself. We don't know enough ab pass on it technically, but the book ha: attached. The Technique of the Love Affair, by A Gentle woman. Simon & Schuster—Perfumed by Corday. serious, if sprightly, essay on a popular subject Better ‘than it sounds, though not_quite so good it smells. Fiction Giant Killer, by Elmer Davis. John Day—Daré King of Israel,’ stars in a successful effort to bring spint of Israel within modern understanding. Tote reviewed next week. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. Hercourt, Brace-’ startling “biography” which covers four and carries its central character {rom one sex 19 tf other, beginning with an Elizabethan noblemaa, ending with a heroine on October 31, 1928. Tete reviewed next week. Se Our Companionate Goldfish, by Doo Herd Doubleday, —Punny stuff, illustrated © funny pictures by the funny author. Recommended Innocent Bystanding, by Prank Sullivas Trails of the Hunted, by James L. Clark . Near the River, by Monte Cooper . . - Tameiust by Harold Lamb . . . Roamin’ in the Gloamis’, Sir Harry Lauder Harness, by A. Hasse Gibbs... The Queen's Husband, by R. B wood... The House at Pooh Corner, b Milne’. .’, The Twilight of the American Mist, Walter B. Pitkin... Spy and Couater-Sm (Continued on page 28) comicbooks.com ; {