Putnam patriot., 1927-08-26

popular opera. His solaists sing now classical aria and follow it with song of Carrie Jacobs Bond and then. somewhere near the end of the pro gram, the sign goes up "on the Mall and there IS a loud applause as Cold man starts one of hIs own compost liens Co which the audience maintain Whistbng and =foot-tappinE ae= compartment. Here is real music for The multitude and a unique feature of New York summer nights which gives pleasure and delight to many thousands
 The Summer Theatre
 According ta the method and the manner of other years. the usual program of New York summer in the theatre would include few sketehy rcvues immersed in tinkling songs, not much drama and many. many movies But. thanks to the weather, perhaps. or ta the soidity 1f tbe fare at last season. this sum mgr has seen a different sort sf menu for thH8tre-Eoefs 0f course there have been musical shows. solid hits that have survived thp lean weeks of carly summer. But Miss fthe. Barry maHe h The Constant Wife4 and M.zs dane Gowl iu 'fhg Road ta Rome have played She summer sea son Win nc shrinking af audiences. And little play called -+fbe SduaII't which opened #ncouspieuously early last season. stiii is playing to capacity houses + lz needless tu mention that at the Republic Theatre that pheno= meunn af the world theatre. "Abie's Irish Rose. still brings laughter and tears to its devatoes and ducats into th5 already heavy purse of it's owner and author. Miss Anrc Nichols Last week. for the twenty first time Mr Zieefeld elari6ed the New Am sterdam Theatre and the American Girl with a rich and gorgeous Fol lies" music by Irving Berlin, scenes by Urban and most of the comedy derived from the activities of Eddie Cantor You Will say t Is good Follies but you have seen better but nevertheless Mr. Ziegiield has never produced a "F8llies' that prov ed an unsatisfactory evening in the theatre.
 And Summer Movies
 There is a great deal of discussion going on these days in regard to the moving picture industry Why, f is asked by not q few. IS Il necessary for greater palaces of the moving picture to bolster up their cinema of ferings with huge organs, vast ors ches.ras. great choirs, Ilets and aperettas The answer, according to Robert W Sherwood If Life, is that the average movie production of today is so bad that the public de mands more for it's money than just the ordinary movie When a movie. is good. says Mir. Sherwood. the pub lie will pay more and more to see it and he cites che success of such films #as "Beau Gcste." "The Covered Wagon "The King of Kings and "Tha Big Parade. \ good movie does not require extra features. All of this Mr. Sherwood says apropos 8f the reported engagement Of kreis, Ter fo play thrice daily at the Roxy Theatre for phenomenal salary. fl anuears that Madame Gaiii tureI Was aIso invited to sing thrice daily fn the Publlx Theatres for series of weeks at tine pretty penny of $t50,- 000 Madame refused because of the damage she thought such free aueat appearances might do Go her voice which might be harmed under such circumstances, remarked MT. Sherwood. no matter how many Lucky Strikes she smoked. Of the more re- cent movies which have appeared on Broadway. perhaps the one which has created the most Hleasant impress sion IS the return of Richard Barthe- mess In a war affair entitled ''The Patent Leather Kid.
 More And More Monuments
 Perhaps you saw the rotogravure sections of the Sunday papers a week or two ago showing the way that New York now looks from the air. Last Sum was shown q startling pie .ure of the section lying between Thirty-Fourth street and Fifty-Ninth street. This picture was a revela- ion to New Workers themselves li ieems but so few years ago since ths soning building law demanded that building should be only SO high and shen the stories should be set back un til another height was reached and st on as far as Che building would stand The result ss we have marked before in this column. has been the establish meut of Babylouiun effect in afcm lecture differing from any other exist ing city in Che world. Those Whe looked down upon New York from tht air in this extraordinary picture could not but have been astounded that sr many structures uf the new type have arisen in the short time since the zon- ing law went into effect. But there she stands. New York, growing high CT and higher and bigger and bigger and to many of us, more grandly beautiful than ever.