Life — February 8, 1929 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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More or Less Serious The Age of Innocence. Empire—Katharine Cor- nell in a dramatization of the Wharton novel which wouldn't be much without her. Brothers. Forty-Eighth St—Bert Lytell acting like two brothers at the same time, one of them a dope addict. Café de Danse. Forrest—Reviewed in this issue. Congai. Sam H. Harris—Helen Menken as one of the less fortunate Indo-Chinese girls in the midst of a lot of authentic Indo-Chinese atmosphere. Cyrano. Hampden's—Walter Hampden in one of the theatre's thrilling plays. Gypsy. Klaw—Slightly wavering drama by Max- well Anderson with some good scenes and Claiborne Foster as the girl who couldn't seem to say “No.” Hedda Gabler. Forty- Ninth St—The Actors’ Theatre production following “The Wild Duck.” To be reviewed later. _ House Unguarded. Little—Lester Lonergan show- ing three ways of killing the same man. Jealousy. Maxine Ellioti—Two people having a tty desperate time of it, with nobody to help them. fay Bainter and John Halliday handle the thing very well, Judas. Longacre—With Basil Rathbone William Courtleigh. To be reviewed next week. The Kingdom of God. Ethel Barrymore—Miss Barrymore portraying three stages in the life of a Sister of Charity, the last one by far the most effective. Mima. Belasco—Lenore Ulric chasing Sidney Blackmer through what looks like the engine room of an ocean-liner, Good machinery. Lady Dedlock. Waldorf—Reviewed in this issue. One Way Street. Repubdlic—Moderate drama. Strange Interlude. John Golden—One woman juggling three men, with asides to tell you what she is thinking about—as if you didn't know. Street Scene. Plavhouse—Don't say anything harsh about the theati cal season until you have seen this. It would save any season. Zeppelin. Nationcl—A rip-snorting melodrama of madness in ¥ and melo- Comedy and Things Like That Caprice. Guild—Lynn Pontanne and Alfred Lunt showing what deft acting is. Courage. Rit2—Six or eight stage children both- ering their mother (Janet Beecher). The Front Page. Times Square—Newspaper re- porters and criminals all mixed up in very comical goings-on. Holiday. things. Hot Water. Lucille LaVerne—A mild little com- edy giving Miss LaVerne a change from “Sun-Up.”* Little Accident. Ambassador—Some very funny moments for everybody except the young man who finds himself with a child on the eve of his marriage. Thomas Mitchell and Katharine Alexander head the cast. The Marriage Bed. issue. ‘Merry Andrew. next week. A Most Immoral Lady. Cort—Alice Brady dis- playing her accustomed skill as a genteel blackmailer who goes straight. Paris. Music Bordoni. The Perfect Alibi. Charles Hopkins—A murder mystery which has its amusing side. Poppa. Hudson—Good Jewish stuff Precious. Royale—John Cumberland and Hale Hamilton in fairly light fare. Serena Blandish. Morosco—With Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier. To be re- next week. Bayes—Ho-b That Ferguson Family. have to sec. The Yellow Jacket. Coburn—Mr. and Mrs. C. in a revival of a revival of a revival. Eye and Ear Entertainment Animal Crackers. Forty-Fourth St.—This explains where the Marx Brothers are every night. And very comical they are. too. Blackbirds of 1928. entertainment, Plymouth—Nice people saying amusing Booth—Reviewed in this Henry Miller’s—To be reviewed Bor—Something built for Irene Bijow—Nothing that you Eltinge—Incomparable Negro. Boom! Boom! Casino—With Prank Mctstym, Roy Atwell, Ann Seymour and others. To be nm viewed later, Chauve Souris. Jolson—M. Balieff b. with “sonks”. ack tein Fioretta. Ear! Carroll—With Leon Errol, Pazey Brice, ‘Lionel Atwitl and others. “To be revere ater. Follow Thru. Forty-Sixth St—Reviewed in ths issue. Good Boy. Hammerstein's—A good show, wih Elliott. Nugent, Charles Butterworth, Helen K; and others Hello, Daddy! Cohan—Lew Piclds in to be “The High Cost of Loving,” accor George Hassell, Betty Starbuck and Billy Hold Everything. Broadhurst—As fu’ as there is in town, thanks to Victor M Lahr and Nina Olivette, with Ona Munsor Whiting good for singing and dancing. The Houseboat on the Styx. Liber!y—Blancte Ring and Jack Hazzard in something out of yor childhood days. Lady Fingers. Vanderbil—With E¢ Louise Brown. Gertrude MacDonald and o be reviewed later. Ned Wayburn's Gambols. Knickerbocker—Monty Mr. Wayburn’s dancing pupils. The New Moon. Jmperial—Very satisfactory musical comedy, with Evelyn Herbert, Gus Shy aol Robert Halliday. The Red Robe. Shubderi—Good, old-fashioned retta and very refreshing. Walter Woolf, Hees illiland and Jose Ruben. Show Boat. Zicg/eld—The dean. This Year of Grace. Selwyn—Beatrice Lille and Buzzed, ers. To Noel Coward in a revue that és a revue. Three Cheers. Globe—Will Rogers. New A msterdam—Eddie Cantor at top Whoopee. form. Repertory and Laboratory Civic Repertory. Fourteenth St.—Miss Le Gab lienne showing up-town managers t is done. S.Glencairn. Provincetown—Pour sea plays ty Eugene O'Neill. The Subway. Cherry Lane—By Elmer Rice author of “Street Scene.” To be reviewed next week “Dinner here is a-la-carte, sir.” “Well, wheel it along, me lad.” Punch (by permission), comicbooks.com =p paren