The Washington times., 1925-03-09


Newing's play, to first one curse
Poor Allah! He doesn't even
the evening. and / was very n
having his Oriental ladies prayil
pray; the Koran states explicit
Paradise, unfortunately, Accord
for souls.
Faced, as one is, with the
problem of reviewing a play
that has 8 box-office title. a
east that shouts its lines, and
Is about as Oriental in tone
and color as q cartoon by T.
E. Powers, / confess to a weak
ness for joshing, and that in
clination increases when men,
tally Seduction" is shuffled in
with MEMORIES of 1.-THE Garden
of Allah, and BELLA Donna"
But, now-I'm getting serious,
and that'll never do!
Allyn King, pretty, statues
que creature, who is coming
right along as an actress, and
does splendidly in a bad role,
IS the lady who docs notY get
seduced. In fact, nobody in the
play suffers q loss of honor,
and the sands of the desert
grow cold with waiting. ivory
figures, carved and tinted by
some divine Molder, glisten
through the shimmering trans
parency of silken folds. limiting
that the promised theft Of vir-
-tuosity viii be worth waiting
TO see.
But the only thing we get is
Miss King cleaning like q
Munsingwear id when the talka-
tive white sheik" mutilates her
-frock and it slips to the stage
floor.
Charitable boy, this fellow!
Changes his mind or gets an
Idea, for new prOphylactic
toothbrush in the middle Of the
meal and, the play being q
desert drama, Shelby" deserts
beauty unadorned, @shOOing, we
are led to suppose, passion,
desire, flaming lust and cOyet.
business out of his decorated
tent TO catch the next caravan
TO TimbuctOO.
Next we have, la-a-deez and
gents, sweethearts and wives,
happy or otherwise, the six
dancing girls, Zurwa, Tawati,
AujeIa, Keseba, Soluk and Tolab,
named after six little South Sea z
Islands Japan viii be able to
occupy, according TO General
Mitchell, within two days pro
vided our air service isn't inn
proved, and concerning our air
service, / Want. to say here and
now that every fountain pen is
guaranteed to last the allotted
time, and If you're interested at
all in varicose veins we have
there there, I'm off again.
AS a piece of writing, "Seduc-
ton is box-office stuff and
nothing more or less. A florid
maze of writing divorces its
story and action from contrast,
and its cast makes as merry
with. its ttsides" and takes as
many liberties with its script as
II is humanity possible to do. At
times the action skirts the Dor
derIine of burlesque, even more
than does the average "vaude-
VILE act. At one moment in
the play the one-eyed sheik,
after a spat with his plump
frau, aids her exit from the tent
by planting his Moroccan boot
on the lady's posterior. Lovely!
A really fine performance
overshadowing every other effort
by his associates-is contributed
by Profulla H. Ghoshal, in the
role of fiery, quick-to-dis-
agree "HaFd-boiled Herman" of
the burning plain.
Just how. Raisuli's grand
mother is going to feel when
word is cabled to Tangier that
he is not dead, / really can't
say. She may be pleased
hope so-but, who can tell,
Nargie, who can tell?
This notice is intended as a
"come-on" and if, by any chance
In the rush of a spring morn
ing-"seductive," l wearI
have Inadvertently neglected to
say it, here goes:
"See Seduction and laugh
your head off"
Next wek-A dramatiZatiOn Of
Jed, the PoOrhouse Boy by
H0ratiO AIger, starring Louis
Wolheim.