Life — January 25, 1929 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Life’s| ,Confi ae. More or Less Serious The Age of Innocence. Empire—Not much done with Edith Wharton's novel except to embellish it with Katharine Cornell. Brothers. Forty-Eighth St.—Bert Lytell very busy taking two parts at once, as well as dope. Café de Danse. Ferrest—"A continental melo- drama." To be reviewed later. i Congai. Sam H. Herris—According to this, it is no fun at all being a native-girl in Indo-China. Helen Menken makes believe she Is one, just to prove it. Cyrano de Berger: Hampden's—Everyone should see this play at least once. Gypsy. Klow—A play by Maxwell Anderson, with Claiborne, Foster, Louis Cathern, Mary Young and others. To be reviewed lat House Unguarded. Litile—To be reviewed later. Jealousy. Maxine Eliiott's—Two people having a ternble time w each other for a whole play. For- tunately the two people are Pay Bainter and John Halliday who are very good. The Kingdom of God. Ethel Barrymore—Miss Barrymore increasingly effective as Sister Gracia grows older through three acts: bad, fair and very good indeed. . Mima. ‘Belasco—Lenore Ulric chasing Sidney Blackmer through one of Mr. Belasco’s best engines. Always something to watch. Strange Interlude. John Golden—O'Neill could have done this in much less time, but evidently he didn’t have to, judging by the crowds who continue to sit through it. . Street Scent Playhouse—A play by Elmer Rice, with Mary Servoss, Robert Kelly, Horace Braham and others, To be reviewed later. The Street Wolf. Garrick—Certainly not. Vermont. Exlanger’s—A_ play by A. E. Thomas, with Phyllis Povah, Allyn Joslyn and others. To be reviewed next week. = The Wild Duck. Forty- Ninth St—A grand play. Wings Over Europe. Martin Beck—Highly inter- esting conversations around a conference table in- volving the imminent destruction of the world. Not a sex play. Zeppelin. National—A mystery melodrama of the air, with Raymond Walburn, Jean May, Paul Guil- foyle and others. To be reviewed later. Comedy and Things Like That Caprice, Guild—Beautiful comedy performances by Lynn Pontanne and Alfred Lunt. Courage. Rits—Janet Beecher as the young woman who lived in Cambridge and had so many children she didn't know what to do. e Front Page. Times Square—A mad-house of comedy and melodrama, making up into a breath- lessly entertaining evening. Holiday. Plymouth—Drawing-room conversation which is twice as amusing as real drawing-room con- denti PET text | ted and versation, written by Philip Barry and partici in, among others, by Hope Williams, Ben Smit! Donald Ogden Stewart. Hot Water. Lucile La Verne— Miss La Verne's second production in the theatre presumably named after herself. To be reviewed later, . The Jealous Moon. Majestic—The by-now fairly unexciting tale of Pierot and Columbine, embellished Cowl, assisted by Philip Highly amusing (to ‘outhful fertility. Thomas Jlexander as the unmarried the audience) results of Mitchell and Katharine parents. Major Barbara. Republic—Good staple Shaw. The Marriage Bed. Booth—A dramatization of Ernest Pascal's novel, with Ann Davis, Allan Dine- hart, Helen Chandler and others. To be review next week. ‘A Most Immoral Lady. Cort—Alice Brady at top | form in the rdle of the lady who saw the error of her ways too late to avoid an excellent second act curtain. Paris. Music Box—This wouldn't be much except for Irene Bordoni, Cole Porter's tunes and “The Commanders”—which is like saying it wouldn't be much without its raisons d'etre. The Perfect Alibi. Charles Hopkins—A Milne murder which is not whimsical but down-right enter- taining. Poppa. Hudson—Jewish comedy with lots of Jewish tragedy. Personally, we liked it. Potiphar's Wife. Craig—Embarrassing. Precious. Royale—A comedy by James *Porbes, with John Cumberland, Hale Hamilton, Cora Wither- spoon and others. To be reviewed later. Serena Blandish. Morosco—A dramatization by S. N. Behrman of the novel, with Ruth Gurdon, A. E. Matthews, Constance Collier and others. To be reviewed later. Skidding. Bayes—We had a feeling that this had closed, but it doesn’t seem to have. We can't under- stand it. The Skyrocket, Laccum—A play by Mark Reed, with J. C. Nugent, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Philips and others. ‘0 be reviewed later. The Yellow Jacket. Coburn—The Coburns back to their old love. Eye and Ear Entertainment Animal Crackers. Forty-Fourth St—An arrange- ment of Marxes which seems to cause a great deal of laughter to a great many people, including this de- partment. Blackbirds of 1928. Eltinge—A colored revue which you probably have seen, if you get around at all. Boom! Boom! Casino—This seems to be the name of a musical show, with Prank Mclntyre, Ann Seymore, Roy Atwell and others. To be reviewed en ee NH a NY Tue Restaurant Tat Croses at Ten. al G vide Chauve Souris, Jolson—M. Balieff back agin for four weeks only. To be reviewed later: Deep Harlem. | Biltmore—An.extrava on the evolution of Negro music. Follow Thru. Forly-Sizth St—A De Henderson score. with Irene Delroy, M eron, Zelma O'Neal and others. To be r week. Good Boy. Hammerstein's—Several good which you have probably beard anda food oa tainment put on by Eliott Nugent, Charies Bune worth. Helen Kane and _ others. Helio Daddy! “Lew Pic's Mansfeld—Lew Fay himself in a musical version of his old “High Con ¢ Loving.” aided by George Hassell, and an tavalate contribution from Billy Taylor and Betty Starved. Hold Everything. Broadhurst—One of the mm comical shows, thanks to Victor Moore and Bert Lab with the good songs and dancing taken care of ty Ona Munson and Yack Whiting. The Houseboat on the Styx. Liberty—With Jact Hazzard and Blanche Ring, this ought to be beter wtdy Fi Vanderdilt—A 1 y Fingers. Vanderdilt—A musical version ¢ “Easy Come, Easy Go.” with Eddie Buzzell, Lace Brown, Gertrude MacDonald and others. To & reviewed later. Ned Wayburn's Gambols. Knickerbocker—Wih Puzzy Knight, Libby Holman, Lew Hern and othen To be reviewed later. The New Moon. Imperial—Very. satisfactory Evelyn Herbert, Gus Shy and Robert Halliday, Polly. Lyric—A musical version of “Polly Withs Past.” With June, Harry K. Morton, Pred Alle, Inez Courtney and others. Reviewed in this ismue. The Red Robe. Shubert—One of the good old ona, with lots of singing and sounds and Walter, Wool s win hearts. Scandals of 1928. A pollo—Mr. White still era ing along. with Harry Richman, Frances Whit, Willie Howard, Tom Patricola and Ann Pennings yw Boat. Ziegfeld—Over a year old and nom of quitting. Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan, Puck end White, Edna May Oliver and Norma Terris, This Year of Grace. Selwyn—Beatnice Lillie ext Noel Coward in grand entertainment. ‘Three Cheers. Globe—Will Rogers. Vanities of 1928. Far! Carrolli—Punny but ditty. Whoopee. New Amsterdam—Eddie Cantor, ant try to get in and see him. Repertory and Laboratory Civic Repertory. Fourteenth St.—Eva Le Galliene in highty sucet ful repertory, to which “The Lady from All SS. Gi : “sea cycle” consisting of in the Zone,” for Cardiff.” "The Long Voyage Home’ Moon of the Canbbees.* Singing Jailbirds. Grove Street—Upton Sinclair & times effective in a propaganda play. comicbooks.com