The Theatre: List

A quantity of new plays having been offered, mid-October found the following plays showing in Manhattan:

SERIOUS

Broadway—Home life among cabaret dancers. Sustained realism.

The Captive—Helen Menken as an Urning ; strange, artistic.

Deep River—Creole-mulatto opera by Laurence Stallings and Frank Harling.

The Donovan Affair—Jewels, darkness, murder, police.

The House of Ussher—A revival in oppressive Poe shadows for the benefit of hardy drama lovers.

Just Life—With very little relation to art.

Lulu Belle—Lenore Ulric in chocolate grease paint as a high-stepping Harlem-to-Paris harlot.

Red Blinds—Terrible.

Sandalwood—An uninteresting smirk relieved by Pauline Lord.

Sex —Trash.

The Shanghai Gesture—Florence Reed back at the corner of Hung Chow and Elm streets. Flesh-creeping hokum of the better sort.

The Woman Disputed.—Hun officer (Lowell Sherman) and Alsatian Angel (Ann Harding).

Yellow—A good triangle drama diddled into melodrama.

LESS SERIOUS

Abie’s Irish Rose—Hearty perennial.

At Mrs. Beam’s—Cannibalism in a British rooming house made funny.

The Blonde Sinner—Sleazy society mystery with music injected.

Cradle Snatchers—What raucous middle-aged women say and do to lull the scruples of undergraduate boy friends. Popular.

Fanny—Funny Fannie Brice in mushy melodrama.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes—From Ritz to Ritz with a wide-eyed gabber.

The Ghost Train—It moves.

Henry-Behave!—A stuffed shirt loses his memory, comes to in Congress; dull.

The Home Towners—South Bend, Ind., censors Manhattan. By comical George M. Cohan.

Honest Liars—Feeble farce in a sanatorium.

If I was Rich—If you do not mind the title you will like the show.

The Judge’s Husband—Connecticut hen-peckery, with William Hodge.

The Little Spitfire—Another slavey in Southampton. Applause.

Loose Ankles—What unscrupulous young men confide to one another after a night with middle-aged girlfriends. Wise-cracky but feeble.

Number 7—Jewel-hunt in a deserted tenement.

She Couldn’t Say No—Florence Moore slaps a sluggish affair into a smart success.

The Shelf—An amusing contrivance on the stay-young theme.

Two Girls Wanted—Innocuous country girl, pleasant businessmen.

What Every Woman Knows—Helen Hayes is an infinitely charming handmaiden to Sir James M. Barrie.

MUSICAL

The eye is gladdened, the ear well titillated at: lolanthe, Sunny, Castles in the Air, Naughty Riquette.