The Fall Guy
"The Fall Guy" Comedy and Pathos In Gleason-Abbott Hit At the Eltinge Jlm«< Gleason, ,11 all th* alow of his lucre** Willi "Is Zat So?", combines witti Georg* Abbott of tlie cait of...
...There will be novel and interesting stunts by ponies, dogs, seals, geese, horaoi and bears—tame bean, not wild ones...
...we accept without argument the fact that Lottie't bos*.,, who happens to he i Government agent, happem alio to visit the family the first time Johnnie happens to tiring home the luitcase of hooch...
...The Shubert Thestre will home a return engagement of "The Btggar On Horttback," beginning .Monday "Hell'iBmlU" Moving To Geo...
...play happened lo be revived in London In his book, "Dramatic Opinion and Essays" (Bientano), i« 1 brill.antly interprets a London performance Here is hia mm up...
...HIPPODROME Harry Richman with Yvctto Rugel...
...Lupino Lane...
...Toto...
...Norah, live with her husband'i brother, Corny, in a cottage by the sea, and there is • deep and abiding love among the member...
...Louis D'Arelay, a French artor from the Theatre Odeon and Mme...
...Besides, the play is as simple as 'Little Fed Riding Hood' to any one who conies to it fresh from from life instead of stale from the theatre " The Verdict of the Play Jury By Kenneth M^cGowan TUB verdict of the play jury on Desire Under the Elms" is perfectly proper «nd perfectly natural...
...W. M. F. Vaudeville Theatres MOSS' BROADWAY Moss' Broadway Theatre, beginning Monday, will have a first showing of a new mystery melodrama entitled "Secrets of the Night...
...Louise Wilkens and Sister, and others...
...A limited return engagement nf Eddie Dowling in "Silly, Irene and Miry,' wikt Lau'u Hi own, will begin at tht 44th Street Theatsa ea Heads...
...The Gingham Girl," s musical comedy, with Eddie BuzzcM heading the cast, will come to the Bronx March 30...
...We got the verdict of the city's educators at our special performance for the faculties of .the universities, colleges, and larger high schools of New York...
...but the price 1 paid fur it kii to find myself stricken with mortal impatience and boredom the next time J attempted to sit out the pre Jbsenite drama for five minutes- Where shall 1 find an epithet magnificent enough for 'The Wild Duck?1 To sit there getting deeper and deeper into that Kkdal home, and get tng deeper and deeper into your own life all the time, until you forget that : you are in a theatre at ail, to look on with horror and ply at a profound ; tragedy, shaking with laughter all the I time at an irresistible comedy, to go out, not from a diversion, but from an experience deeper than real life • brings to meat men, or often brings to any man: that is what 'The Wild i'm* was like at the Globe it is idle to attempt to describe it...
...The jury saw the play...
...The defendant is denied the protection against, venality and stupidity which our higher courts are created to provide...
...And in The second place there la no provision for a review of decisions...
...combines witti Georg* Abbott of tlie cait of 'Troce.iiional" to put across another hit, in "The Kill Guy," it tha Fllinge...
...In the performance Messrs...
...Garden -1 The Gulden is being put in order for the last visit of the Ringling Brothers Circus, "Greatest On Earth," to the big building on Madison avenue...
...His sling ia a constant surprise and delight, ss well as a poit-graduste course in what Mencken hat carefully termed the American language...
...F'ried' land...
...to the theatre, at the 48th Strerl Theatre, on Friday evening, in mm iiiemoi 111 nn of Ibtcn't blrthdty...
...Golden...
...M. Cohan Monday After flitting about the outskirts of the Great White Way for nearly thrt* montht, "Hell't Bellt," Barry Conns* comedy, movet into the Georg* ¦ Cohan Theatre, Monday evening, tbil** by rescuing this thestre from th« •Its* ering moviea...
...D is dangerous to leave this matter to any other force besides public opinion and the criminal law...
...is t» be the gutlt *f honor tt the Spring luncheon of th* Theatre | Club...
...Eva Tuck and Sam White...
...On Moi.day lai>t 1 ant without a mui u , r in a Fluffy theatre on a Bum me r afternoon from three tu nearly half-past aix, spellbound by ibien...
...Anatol Fried-land presents himself and a company of ten in a revue, "Anatol's Affairs of j 1925...
...But there are two grave and dangerous flaws in its methods of operation...
...Nor is lie less discerning in his presentation of the habits of iuch folk...
...while Barry Macollum is a perfect image of a sneaking, whining little busybody as I'adna...
...Their integrity should never have been questioned...
...In the tirst place, the secrecy with which it is hedged about is more dangerous than any amount of sensational publicity...
...Norah meets Christie secretly, and when the meetings are discovered everyone assumes Hiat there is a love between s girl tnd » man the father nf one of whom killed the father of the other...
...Barry in "Scandals nf Hensfoot Corners," j written by Jimmie Barry...
...When he first gave us the choice of facing indictment or closing Eugene O'Neill's drama, we told him that'no body of playgoers would support him and that we ware confident in the verdict of any unbiased and* intelligent group of citizens, whether they were chosen from tha Grand Jury or the petty jury, the play jury or the general public...
...J. T. S. Austin Strong's Comedy, "Seventh Heaven," At Bronx Opera House -"Seventh Heaven" will be presented | tt the Bronx Opera House, Monday Bight, for a week's engagement...
...Now we have the endorsement of the play jury, and 'Desire Under the Elms' goee in unaltered in any word, line or situation...
...The pley, the acting, the letting!, the very muaic of the linei, combine fo make the play a rare entertainment...
...Other acts will include the Wilson BVothera, in "The Lieutenant and Ihe Cop...
...The play and ill author have been vindicated...
...Rejane's repertoire company in Paris, has the ml* of Chien...
...She pliys with sweet wistfulness and complete conviction...
...Willie Covin and Leonsrd Ruffln, tnd others...
...She and her beiutlful daughter...
...Prince Lei Lani and bis N»'mum Troupe...
...Two new musical numbers and three new dincei were introduced...
...Muriel De Forest and* Beo Jackson...
...Karl Carroll will provide souvenirs...
...Hcal-ey iiinl Cross, and others...
...Alice Diaz and Harold Powers...
...Ellen Hatpin ia the widow of a man who had been killed in a feud yean ago by the father of Chriiti* Barrett, her childhood sweetheart, who has been sailing the let theie twenty years...
...which played for two years at the Booth Theatre, was written hy Austin Strong, author of "Three Wise Fools...
...Kti . will tp»ek *a 'What s 1 Become af Ik* Whit* Collars...
...the sponging yet *•-sertivt brother who is always resdy to punch everyonc'i face, but who tatmt incapable of summoning up enough ambition to desire anything else, or ever to carry out that on* desire...
...Eddie Elkins and His Orchestra...
...Loggerheads" Ralph Coilman's Play Furnishes Entertainment At the Globe Theatre "Loggerheads," Ralph Cullman's play of Irish fishei folk, which left the tiny Cherry Lane Playhouse in the Village Monday to appeal to a larger Broadway audienre in the Gaiety, it an unadulterated delight...
...Steve Freda snd Jack Anthony...
...Neville Fleeeon and Ann Greenway...
...Montroie J. Moiei delivered nn address on Henrik Ibien and his contribution...
...Old hates flame up, while a miserable, miserly, cowardly neighbor, Padnn Cnllini, heaps fuel on the flame in order to help along his suit for North's hand...
...Ken Kling...
...and Mrs...
...Tom Powers will preitnt a bust nf Ibsen tti th* Scandinavian Society...
...No finer group ef men and women could have been gathered together than those that judged these plays...
...and Company...
...How the ion of a policeman who was killed by dopes-sellers is almost tricked into becoming a carrier of coke— "Snow" leemi to be the term- and at the last minute turns the tables on his false friends and turns them over to the law, how he thereby finds a job in his father's footateps: this is the tale of the drama, that moves to a swift snd satisfying conclusion icrosi the lives of these varied, humble folk, yet true...
...Loggerheads" solves no social problems...
...Shubert hive supplied a dining-room kitchen with a* real stove and dumbwaiter, and the cait, which includes Krneit Trues* Beatrice Noyes and Ralph Sip-perly, supplies comedy «nil pathos and pep and basic sterling qualities such ¦ a come close to ktie heart of all good playgoers arid lovers of "Abie's Irish Rose...
...Secrets of Ihe Night" is a plcturiza: tion of "The Nightcsp," by Max Mar-son...
...Jinimie...
...Harry WaUon, Jr...
...It ii a limple Itory, but its beauty 1 iera not in the situations, but in the lines that reflect the minds and the souls of the loving, hating, fighting, forgiving, Irish peasant people...
...We had had the verdict of the general public for some fifteen week...
...it does not deal with deep emotions, but it ii close to the life of the people it depicts, and it is a perfect little gem of a play...
...But when Christie conies hick and seeks to effect i reconciliation with the family it is ai if a serpent had entered their Eden...
...Sentiment end humor combine to promise the play a long career...
...Roberta Arnold and Company in "Their First Anniversary...
...Gail Kan* ii excellent as Ellen, giving the part just the melancholy touch that make it authentic...
...their table manners, their itrsining to be In.-piiable and polite to "Lottie's bolt," their petty quarreling and nag-glng and fundamental likeness to all others of the aim* human race...
...Gleason surpasses in the presentation of the fimily of the truck-driver and chauffeur level of society, ths prize-fighter and dope peddler heights of conversation...
...Tht dispute of Johnnie and hit wife as to whether ha iball try to replace nil lost, job with th* ilippery work ef a bootlegger...
...The play jury may provide and does at present provide- a panel nf higher intelligence than any petty jury can ever boast...
...and staged by Mr...
...of Ihe family...
...PALACE Vincent Lopez snd His Orchestra...
...District Attorney Banton did not...
...All the acts containing lions, tigers, leopards, Jaguars, panthers, "the big cat acts," have been discarded because "the management recognizes that in many quarters there is a decided aversion to the presentation of trained wild animal acts which convey to many people the suggestion of cruelty In training and handling...
...The pity ll *"* nun Canlvoort't first producing US* (lifts \ Circus Here Next Sat.— Final Performances In Madison Sq...
...Whitford Kane makes a sturdy, supremely honest fisherman...
...Vet the fundamental objection to censorship "till ¦tends...
...The fact that the play jury has shown admirable judgment in handling 'Desire Under the Elms' and 'They Knew What They Wanted' does not, however, definitely establish this body a* the proper means of handling the morals of H road way...
...Broadway Brief $ "The Rat" will retch ltt fiftieth performance tt th* Colnnlil Thtstre, Tuesday evening...
...while Joanna Roos as Norah is one of the most beautiful girls I have seen on the stage...
...With the moving nf "China Rose" In the Knickerbocker Theatre, Monday night, four new-comers were added to the cist: Don Barclay, Richard Temple, Bert Wiley and Alary Jeffrey...
...Edith Ellis, author or "Whit* Cellar...
...Sev- 1 •nth Heaven...
...Ia the, end, Ellen yields to the love she hti felt for years for tht gallant teimtn and joint him on hii ihip, bound for Australia, while Corny, choking bark his teari, graspi Christie's hand and the feud ends...
...Shaw on Ibsen's "The Wild Duck" CBERNARD SHAW gave h.gh praise to Ibsen s play, "The * Wild Duck," not only when he served as a critic but lime and Again, when iht...
...Loggerheads" tells a simple itory, and an improbible one...
...Tom H. Walih, Htrvey and Shirley Booth continu* I the principal roles...
...Everything else is so real that we are willing to grtnt the author these coincidences...
...The complications of the plot do not especially mitter...
...But it is not North that he wants, but Ellen...
...James Kirkwood, Midge Bellamy, Rosemary Theby and Sasu Pitta and t Tom Wilson have the principal roles...
...and it i« not Chriitie that Norah wants, but a holy sisterhood that is going to Australia...
...staged by Ned Vetsyburn and written and conceived hy Mr...
...the little touches of tht garbage pail on the dumbwaiter, the calling out of tht window, the runrttng to neighbor for assistance all the details of the life of these people are made vivid, amusing, res...
...and as to giving an analysis of the play, I did that seven years ago, and decl.ne lo give myself an antiquated air by treating as a novelty a masterpiece that all Europe delights in...
...Frank Shannon is a rakish, lovable figure as Christie...
...Addison Fowler and Florenz Tamara...
...Frank Fay...
...Except the elephants, there will be no trained wild animal acts this year...
...On Saturday, March 28, the Circus will open at Madison Square Garden for a limited engagement...
...Others in the cast are Charles Gotthold, Joseph J. Hyland, I'auline Moore, Grace Menken, G, Mac-Lean Savage and Robert Lowe...
...William Sully and Company with Ar-line Gardner and Robert Pitkin...
...Jlisne will be played by Ann Forrest...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 12
