Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 4 | Review of the Rialto

i E V I IE i f. f F F I THE JH IE Jl RALiO AUf 1 I I BY By DIXIE HINES h W EW YORK YORE April If 28 28 If there le e any doubt abut about New York being we e theatrical metropolis of ot the World measured by number of ot new productions and the appeal which W se se productions make It ma may be ue The past week was en- en l theatrically by Audrey Audrey- I tv Vs s The Tho Life LIre of Man produced by y the Harvard Dramatic club and andow How IY tow ow Come an negro all music and dance play These were among toe the e number and by no means all the offerings gs It Is significant howy how how- aver y r. r that the chief drama critics I of f erh t die the e first line choose the negro plow ow rather than the Harvard protection pro pro- of the Russians Russian's Intensely drama It is tr the I Harvard Harvard- af boys were amateurs but l they ey y are pr pretty tty good amateurs They Ilter ter er produced Sacha Guitry's B Ber lager TIte The Exile by bv Sidney Toler ler Is i in 1 I I JJ n old fashioned melodrama of ot the tepid fashioned ench revolution period starring It ose Ruben H It canor Painter and J Jose Ruben Hall II b all about a young oung citizen M aa exiled because of a slight to toIre Ire e French queen He lie surreptitious surreptitious- it returns to Paris meets a y young UI ress ss whom he conspires with to ko personate his wife wife wife-he he being unI un- un I I. I k onn n to her as well as his friends u ender er r his real name name and and through Ih ill deception his identity Is Is dis- dis red ered and he is about to lose his lII when he persuades her f b sing lne the Marseillaise to to- the If presumably mob and 6 F S1 tat calms alms the Ule passion of ot the e mob ny ll gay ny rate young Roget Hoget the com comm 9 err of f the stirring song Is Intro- Intro Md and this melody plays an ImI Imant Im- Im ant part Miss Painter sings I g fully Mr Ruben was as called caned on n acting which he to supply sunny l the Iron 4 Id with fair satisfaction hark i ie in Ina a a. sort of role role gave Ih lIe mo intense and satisfying per- per In the cast but then the thet tire an re In theme j play was old t t Its HI color ment anti except for M d. d It its I skilful staging was hardly of f the he ambitious UR effort thin Four Pour Walls Walls' bv by lie of the nO h. h was another plaY k T rt WAS chiefly air Ce Helen Ware wasted 1 fine fin on In three Incon Here Is IF an Mn tine line Une linea t l' l at as a to In old New York about Inn rR oars ago aco the fh n story Ore the last ast den Tn the flip first scene FrenA I la an n 01 old 1 New York family n now W Wa a a. 1 derelict visits the old house which In decay is about to be be torn torn down and andis andIs He lie talks with the old watchman is Joined by a sob sob- er from one She of the sensational newspapers watchman watchman watchman watch watch- is bent upon a story The man tells of ot an old ld manus manuscript found inside and they go in to read ot of to be the history It it It proves the old house dating back more than years cars Then in the form which Is no longer novel there are cut backs for three generations Each generation has its own story romantic amusing or tragic It is badly cone constructed fC 1 disjointed d and rs lacking backing rc in cohesive Interest Miss In one act and is an Ware Yare kills her b betrayer In a another r she 1 ra comes se to get a garter which was I amorous adventure t in a acab in an a lost and in the other she Is a gay cab of the fact s se t. t The music music music mu- mu sic member is tuneful being sons potpourri of ol time old How j e d' d Come p popular r rt t the songs n negro gro play is interesting of ot this large the least usual usual- As Aa group and fast growing dancers and fast some o there are folk tolk singers The negro some good the public fancy hold on loses his imitative True becomes when ho he can afford more to form entertainment no one It Is only dray genuine to gown dramatic dra dra- as when and weak In movement matic matlo as t to high-flown high attainment some vocal by the prima aria is attempted might be betterin better engaged donna who husky foot The Theman leadIng leading lead lead- In shaking a pyrotechnic dressed d in a Ing man at the same falls fans fashion Come has haA too OD much How time talk which means menns o of his too much enough of that art not t nothing and n whatever to brings which h the negro and rid vim Im he does dance im