New Britain herald., 1927-09-30
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ANTON F. SCIBILIA Presents
 MAE WEST
THE WICKED AGE A Comedy Drama in Thre. Acts Staged by EDWARD ELSNER

The Cast
 Aunt Elizabeth ......... Emily Francis Ruth Carson ..'...A =. Doris llaslett Willie Weller .....,.... Hassell Brooks Gloria Scott .............. Ruth Hunter Robert Carson .......... Hal Clarendon John Ferguson ....... Francis Reynolds Frenchy. the Count ..., Robert Bentley Mr. Hathaway ..,a..,,.... Carroll Daly Mrs. Robert Carson .... Mathilda Barring Evelyn Bale Carson ...... Mae West Bob Miles .......... Harry V. Williams Al. Smalrey .........,....., Hub White Tom Grange .......,... William l.dnEan Jack Strattord ........ Raymond Jarno George smith .......... Harold Leonard Lou Ginsberg ........ Harry W. Carter GlTdys Drake ....,..,. Louise kirtland Nell Browne ........... Ethel Maynard Polly Alderman ........... Gene Woods Annie Lawrence .-....... Billy Le Seur Harry DempSter .,....... David Newell Mack Hadden .',,,,..,.... Hal findIaN Bert Astor .,.,,t........ Arthur BoTan Stephanie Joy .......... Nortt2a Winters Norma Fatre ............. Nilva baNls Eliuor uane .,...,..... Mildred Cornell Mrs. Dane '.-...,..'-.'s.. Anita le"ls chauffeur .,.......-.,.... Pete Segreto Mrs Joy ..''.'''''.'''''. Mary Moore Dan .............,...... Robert J. Nice M gEle NCShane ....,.,. Peggy llordn sergeant Mcdonald .......,. A. Miller Marty Jones .,,......... Harold Waves Sam Williams ......... Thomas Waller Henry Leo ............. Thomas Morris DICK Adams ...........'.,.. U. Nnrhah Naniue ...,............. f,eorgie Clarke Henry Arthur ......... Edwin Edwards House Detective .-.....,..... A. Miller br. Andrews ..........''.. tafFoN 'a'y Maid .,................... Bee Jackson (By Herald Reviewer)
 Nothing in stagcland is quite so pathetic as q play which tries to be wicked and succeeds only in being ludicrous. Such is the fate of Tine Wicked Age" presented at Parsons
 theater, Hartford the latter half of the week by Mae West, who appears as leading woman in plot of her
 own manufacture built around an imaginary grlish Mae West Miss | West, who attempts to be the whole show and, therefore, must accept the larger part of the blame, will be remembered as the principal in
 Sex" a nauseous thing which was closed in New York by the police packers of Sex" made q substantial fortune through it's production. Ap- parently they determined to try again with something which aims at being naughty and ends up in being rediculous. AS q penalty they will
 probably be allowed by the public to stew in their own juice.
 "The Wicked Age" will not be closed by the censors. In fact those knights of the blue pencil will prob ably be carried from the theater in a state of semi consciousness and fl they die on the sidewalk the coron- CTS verdict will be laughed thcm- selves to death"
 "The Wicked Age" is based on an alleged modern girl who rebels at the restrictions imposed on her by conservative parents and who
 plunges into gin parties in road
 houses and in the apartments of aI- legged modern youths. She wins first
 prize in a bathing beauty contest and goes into vaudeville, becoming a tempcramental actress whose en- dorsement of chewing gum and liver remedies is in great demand Event
 ualN she returns to the arms of the ardent millionaire who has never ceased to beg her to abandon the stage and come to live in his modest little cottage of eighty-nine rooms, or something like that.
 The producers of the show might be forgiven everything if they did not attempt 10 drag in a moment of mclOdrama for the closing scene, n closing which is as flat and unreal as it would be possible to imagine The most interesting moment in the play last night was when curtain descended and the audience felt at liberty to go home without being dis courteous to The actors.