Putnam patriot., 1924-01-11

 A manager. and 1t Is good % know that his first theatre child seems destined to grow healthy and strong as the sea- son progresses.
 i Someone has asked us o give our | idea of the best plays to see on coming to town for brief vacation. so hefe goes, though lots may not agree with us:
 "The New Poor because it.s good show and one ought to support home talent.
 Rain if you have not seen t, be- cause iE k still one of the best plays in New York with Jeanne Eagles gif- ing one of the decade best perform
 Aren't We All" because even though George Hunfley ha taken ey- ri Maudes place. it couldn't sroH an unusually delightful comedy.
 "The Swan if only to see Eva La- Galliennc of "LIliom fame and beautiful performance bt PhiIp defi= vale which we haven't seen. but because eF= erydne ought to see every Sha" play.
 "Cyrano de BerRerac. because the critics say it's a great performance oy Walter Hampdeu and the public say 90 in capacity houses which may prove that 1t was indigestion or some such condition that prevented us from en- toying it.
 they are.
 Poppy" You mustn't miss IT, with Madge Kennedy at her dant1es.t and most charming, and V (. fields showing how funny funny comedian can be.
 aThe Music Box Review quite the most lavish of the revues. with 6raee Moore singing about @Caiif1rnFuh in such way that you almost forgive Californians.
 sThe Follies," of course though we haven't seen them, but one should see the Foilies just as one should vote for Coolidge ge.-( (Political AdVt
 Of course. when the theatre is over vou1l want "to go somewhere and that doesn't mean home. James, First of all there is the Palais Royal. Tar and away the nest expensive and pop ular of all the night resorts. with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra playing at midnight. jazzinR Wagner and Yer di in such d way as to make your hair lilt with syneopation. Then about one o'clock, Maurice and his incomparable partner. Leonore Hughes, demonstrate that dancing as the poetry ef motion has not. like poetry itself become Il matter of free verse and free fight ! bat a lovely rythmic beautiful thng l that makes even the price Of food and admission permissible Then fl you want something really novel. there IS | the Rendezvous, where lately Gilda 1 Gray wriggled in a small wad of hay and sang writhiug song of Tahiti hut now devoted to Stroeya, that wierd personality out of Russia who sits high on a stool with a guitar and sings ggusy songs in d low voice thai hFp= natizes her hearers into sWuyluR Co the abandon of the refrain Russians. as a matter of fact. have almost e cor ner on the so-called snlght fife They have established all sorts of places all over town. wierdly decorated with t0p- bling houses and trees, serving strange and not too attractive food and Whls perinss nf this and that Princes wha serves you caviar. but, alas not Fedka
 Then if you haven't the zhekeis or the desire for restaurant or concert or a.zHa there Is aiwags Fifth Avenue greatest avenue of the world to our way of thinking And if you haven been in New York for some time yau Il notice that the avenue is changing that all uptown New York is taking on tn itself new appearances Oddly enough. new law has done it. No longer. in certain zones of che eily can great fat.facod. rectangular sks scrapers rear themselves tp a hideaas heighth from the street. Now all is changed. for the building may ga Hp SO many stories and then it must be built back if il would mount higher. The result is having an extraordinary effect on the eity's skyline. and there are moments af twilight when New York. seen down a long avenue or across some open space. has a dream like appearance as of some vision of B phantom city of toppling towers and iewelled lights and all that stands to the eye for power and magnllieence.
 B. F.. Y.