Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

poor play is yet made comparatively agreeable by the man's personality as it takes form in the written and spoken word. Windows is the lesser Galsworthy, but it is Galsworthy still: a well-modulated, charmingly sophisticated, if disturbingly uneven, piece of dramatic writing. The Theatre Guild has made an attractive production, and the cast, with one exception, has been intelligently selected. The exception is Miss Phyllis Povah in the role of the seduced girl. (There seems to be a dickens of a lot of seducing on in the drama these autumn days') Miss Povah's performance is successful in almost ruining every scene in which she figures. Tarnish Fifth-Rate Drama NISil" by the same Gilbert Emery who wrote the meritorious play of a couple of years ago called The Hero, is an illuminating instance of the claptrap that gets by the critical sentinels of Broadway as an example of very fine drama, ft has been greeted as a masterpiece. It has all the aspects of a masterpiece that are enjoyed by The Nervous Wreck and Children of the Moon. I do not wish to appeir didactic, but if Tarnish is anything better than fifth-rate drama I am prepared to give up the pretensions of a critic at once and retire to my ancestral estates in the Xew Jersey meadows back of Newark. The play is essentially a yokel-yanker palmed off on the educated boobs as something authentic by the shrewd device of stating a sound theme in Act I, promptly forgetting it and going in wholeheartedly for Theodore Kremer melodrama, and then briefly mentioning it again just before the third act curtain falls. The device seems to have worked like a charm. A young woman named Ann Harding, in the role of the girl who becomes reconciled to a fiance who is not a physical saint, shows considerable from his wife insure an escape from apartment house pianos for Mr. Bennett? He will still have to put up with the neighbors. The Problem of the Vidors Yidor and Florence Vidor were happily married for many years. Now they have separated. Will there be a divorce? This husband and wife won success together. They travelled from Texas to Hollywood in a Ford, camping promise and a considerable measure of already realized good-looks. Light Comedy Heavily Acted St. Jofix Ervine's Mary, Mary. Quite Contrary is a diverting light comedy w hose valuable lightness is made unduly heavy by the company of actors which Mr. Belasco has assembled to support Mrs. Fiske. The latter gives a sprightly performance of a role that might have been cut to her measure, but the actors who surround her enter the proceedings with all the lightness of touch of so many honkatork piano players. La Fiske. however, with Frvine's wit ever helping j her along, manages to carrv the evening | along very nicely. Mr. Belasco employs a. new theory of lighting in the production. Just what it is I am unable precisely to make out, for all the elaborate explanation in the program. But, whatever it is. it strikes me as being very good. Yet it looks strangely to me like the very good lighting that Mr. Belasco has been using for some time now. Mr. Hodge's Smug ['plijt Hodge's new one. For All of\ Us, is his usual cross between the Christian Science Monitor and the Success magazine. In other words, the kind of play that enchants the simpler folk amoog us and sends them out of the theatre confident that they will go to Heaven when they die. I fear that I am too much of a cynic properly to appreciate the Hodge ! masterpieces. Instead of uplifting me, making me forget my ills and persuading me that all's w ell with the 'World, they j depress me no end and send me on the gallop to the nearest illicit booze parlor. They are so smug, so completely idiotic, I that they instill in me infinitely less a thirst for faith in the hereafter than a thirst for worldly schnapps. 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