Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 22, 1924

Vanities. The second edition of this revue, which threatens to become an annual, went to press with a great deal of shouting; but when the opening audience read the proofs, their reactions were divided. It was agreed that Earl Carroll had crowded a chaotic beauty into his production that would be hard to match but that his search for mirth and music had been less successful. Joe Cook is again the headlined humorist, but somehow his new material does not make up into so effective a garment of gaiety as did his veteran vaudeville sketches. Sophie Tucker heads the parade of pretties. Miss Tucker is not pretty. She is large, loud, good-natured. Saving the costumes, sets and girls, that is about all that can be said for the entire entertainment.

Quinn Martin—"In need of a good joke."

Thoroughbreds. Paternity puzzles in the Theatre are likely to be intricately uninteresting. An absorbing pattern of drama must be sketched to make the spectator care just who is her father. In place of drama, the authors of Thoroughbreds have designed a crazy quilt of odds and ends stitched in from all the parent pieces of this particular ilk.

A youthful lady lawyer of a tiny