Life — May 24, 1929 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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24 Drama APPEARANCES, run several months. bell hop. Mansfield—Worse plays have Written by a colored *Binv 1 Hand, Morosco. $3.85—English class- consciousness as seen by John Drinkwater. KBroruers. Forty-cighth Street, $3.00—Sat. $3.85—John Henry Mears went around the world, then for a thrill produced this, with Bert Lytell as star. Carnivat. Forrest—The thwarted love lite of a stomach dancer with Norman Foster getting the usual tough break *Covrace. Kitz. $3.85—Kiddies and Beecher plucking the heart strings. Janes HHantest. Times Square. $3.00—Rousing drama of life in Darkest Harlem Hourney’s Exp. Henry Miller, $3.00—A phil- osophic play of the trenches and about the best thing in town, All-English WMay’s Estate. Biltmore. $3.00—Sat. $3.85— A Guild play well guilded. *Mima. Belasco. $5.50—A mechanistic mon- ody, whatever that may be. La Ulric emotes WSrRance INTERLUDE It is still here. John Golden. $5.50— HSrKEET Scene. Playhouse $4.40 —A tenement during twenty-four hours and magnificent drama. $3.85—Sat. *#Tue Ace or Iwvocexce. Empire. $4.40—Back to the corset days with Miss Cornell as the leading corseticre. RTne Came Trroven rine Neepur’s Eve. Martin Beck—Some first rate moments with Miriam Hopkins. *Tux Love Duet. Barrymore, $3.85—Sat. $4.40—Miss Barrymore flees with her chee-ild to St. Moritz with Louis Calhern pursuing. Well presented hoke. Tur Passion Pay. Hippodrome—Reviewed in this issue. Tur Pearecr Aunt. Charles Hopkins—tt is neat and interesting. Comedy KCareice. Guild, $3.00—Sat. and Alfred in a nice way. HHorway. Plymouth, $3.85—A peep beneath the upper crust and Hope Williams with her Bowery walk, does a good job of with- cring snootiness. $3.85—Lynn Koxesy. Bijou. stuff that will make you young it has Nydia Westman, Also and Spring Byington. HKisirzer. Royale, $3.00—Sat. $3.85—That fine actar Edward Robinson in a pinochle theme, Ler Us Be Gay. Little. $4.40—Sophisticated carryings on at a Long Island house party with Francine Larrimore in one of her best $3.00—Sat. $3.85—Adolescent And ald Meck Harrie Acces. Ambassador, $3.00—Sat $3.85—Keats Spead laughed himself into a headache and he’s a hard-boiled audience. #Mrey Tue Prince, Lyceum. $3.85—Basil Syd- ney and Mary Ellis in one of Milne’s good ones #Mas. Buspsrean-Lyicn. Klaw. Fiske crashing English society My Girt Frinsy. Republic, most censored this. $3.00—Mrs. Elegant. $3.00—They al- *Sxivo1vc, Bayes, $3.00—It has confounded critics with quite a run. New York Life (onfidential (juide By Eye and Ear *Biackainos. Eltinge, $3.85—Sat. $4.40—All. colored revue in its second year. *Fottow Tur. Forty-sixth Street. $5.50—Sat. $6.60—Golf to music with Zelma O'Neal cutting capers. HHeLLo Davoy. Erlanger. $4.40—A_ musical dish with Lew Fields stirring. #Hoto Evervrnyc, Broudhurst, $5.50—They are all imitating the Bert Lahr of this one. Some fun! Some fun! KLapy Fixcers. Liberty. $4.4o—Sat. $4.95— A pickpocket laughs himself out of many scrapes. And you laugh with him: Buzzell stars. Eddie Messin’ Arounn. Hudson—Another all-col- ored revue. Reviewed later. #Music ww May. Casino. $5.50—A show for a warm evening. #Niw Moos. Imperial. $5.50—Sat. $6.60— Swell, music with old New Orleans as the locale. tuneful *PLeasuRr Bounn. and Jack Pearl while. Majestic. $5.50—Phil Baker make any show worth HSpainc is Hoare. Glenn Hunter. laughs. #Tue Livree Snow. Music Box. $5.50—Reviewed in this issue. *Ti, Rep Rowe. folson’s. $5.50—Operetta with Walter Woolf and worth anybody's evening. *Wroorte. New Amsterdam, $6.60—Zieg- feld hires Eddie Cantor and the house is packed nightly. Alvin, $5.50-—Well, there's Also good tunes and a few $4.4o—Sat (Continued on Page 26) Liuite’s Ticket Service HOW LIFE READERS CAN GET coop ORCHESTRA SEATS AT BOX OF PRIC If you are planning a visit to New York, or if you live in New York, Live's Ticket Service will not only save you money but an extra trip to the box-office. Help Lave.to drive the Ticket scalper out of business! HOW TO USE LI TICKET SERVI Good _seats are available for attractions above indicated by stars and at prices noted. All orders for tickets must reach Lire’s Office at least seven days before date of per- formance, Check for exact amount must be attached to each Purchase Order. Receipt will be sent to purchaser by return mail. This must be presented at the box office on the evening of the performance. 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