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DAILY NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER: 1931 39 "Free For All" and "Ladies of Creation" Here tor. The production introduce Raymond Moore of Cape Cod aa a producing manager. The first audience enjoyed his "offering. TONIGHTS OPENING The Man on Stilts, comedy by A. W.

and E. L. Barker, will be presented tonight at the Plymouth Theatre by Arthur Hopkins. New Musical Comedy Strives Amiably to Make a Joke of Communism By BURNS MANTLE. i They are spoofing the Reds, or trying to, at the new Manhattan theatre in Broadway "Free for AH," the new Schwab and Mandel' musical play, -is an amiable attempt to make sport of community wives and rich young sapheads who go communistic as a inversion.

Women Without Men Theme of Comedy For Miss Heme For "Ladies of Creation," which opened last night at the Cort, Eugene Fitsch and Paul Frankl have designed something new in the way of a set for farce comedy. There are, according to custom, doors left and doors right through which the actors may dash in tears, anger or panic The new note is a double stairway, leading from either side to a boudoir balcony in the rear. And then, for surprise entrances, there's a little elevator doorway beneath the stair. The set is knowingly and completely modernistic and exciting. In it the playwright, Gladys Linger, has built a changeful comedy which sometimes goes rollicking happily and sometimes comes to a halt so it can make a point very clear.

Chrystal Herne, as a woman who has put off thoughts of sex in the interests of a career as an interior decorator, follows Miss Unger through farce and polite comedy alike. She runs up and down the stairs, -slaps her loving general manager, discusses the position of the modern business wo- Free for AIL Musical comedy by Oscar Hammer-stein. 2d, and Laurence Schwab; music by Richard A. Whitine. Pro.

dueed by gchwab and Mandel at the Manhattan theatre, New York, Sept. 8, 1931. The principals: Peter Lane Stephen Potter Emery Joe Butler Hutcheson Gracie Majnard. Tirwoa Anita Allen. Vera Mareh Michael By rne.

Peter HiKi'Uis arisb ka Taraso Tamara Andy Tomkins Joan Sumner. Groday Steve' Potter Jr Haley Marie-Sinnot Lilian Bond Miss Gibbe. thesecretary Knanp Dr Raymond Allen. Philip Lord Mr. Vergil Murgatroyd.Charlea Altboff Mrs.

Ida Jones Jeanette Loff Pete Weber Seth Arnold Terence Pat Collins Jim Shannon Silver Dollar Johnston Mandel, and had a lease on the ex-Hammerstein theatre, I would be getting right busy with my next piece. It does not work out so very well as comedy. There isn't much that is funny about the Reds. Even rom a musical comedy angle. The communistic idea gives Oscar Hammerstein'Zdjand Lau-; fence Schwab a peg on which to hang a series of logically related episodes.

That is always a help in tnusic plays. Steve Potter the son of a rich man, has lost such wit as he was born with trying to amuse himself and his friends as a magician. His father sends him to a psychoanalyst, who prescribes a trip into Nevada and a life in the pen. Marie's Compromise. The boy take along a dozen of lis friends, led by a Bolshevistic young redhead, Marie Sinnott.

It is Marie's idea the roun should work in pairs for the good WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Says: "Here's a finely acted, interesting, well-played play. One hates to see the final curtain fall." GEORGE M. COHAN In Him New Comedy "FRIENDSHIP" WITH A CAST OF COHAN COMEDIANS Popular Matinee Today FULT46St TRAVEL LAST CHAN.CE! To Visit The Middle West Fare Reduction for Round Trip KCDUCTtON ENDS SEPT. Ticket! Now Good on olLBiue-Ribbon Trains except Broadway Limited Don't miss this greatest travel tnw-(tain In Tears! A ha tic. to snake a bustnesaor pleasure trip to Pittsburgh a ad points West oa the Pennsylvania far only three-fourths of the regular round-trip faro.

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Trip Bear TV; unnNi ir.UT i man and indulges in a second-act binge with a baby movie star-all with tact and grace. Miss Unger's theme appears to be that money-making women almost, but not quite, succeed in sublimating the usual feminine need for a masculine complement through work. Ignore men though she tries, the interior decorator can't get along without her general manager. The comedy is peopled with broadly sketched comedy types Spring Byington as a giddy haus-f rau, Dorothy Mackaye as -an amusing upstart film star of the Wampas school, Paula Trueman as a simpering stenog who captures a simp movie Hero, -and Fred Stewart in a nicely restrained bit as an effeminate assistant decora- 0LUM31A BURLESK Thm only trmrHine Bartesqtw Show ea the sjut 8ids with new (am every wevfc Midaieht Show EvrrT St, Sunday VawfnilM 4V Girtia Kevw Prices: 25c ul 09 IRVTNH PI Tim, 14 St. Hot.

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II tOVMMX ST0MS HITS. T0S1TE. I aaai CITY 0.75 Jack Haley Lillian. Bond of all, but sleep in separate bunk It is the decision of the State of Nevada that Marie and her friends are cheating. Therefore, Bays Nevada, they all lave to pick their mates and marry, even though they may divorce each other next scene.

In the forced marriages there are mixups, have to be traightened out for a happy finale. Knocking Opportunity himself an amiable nitwit, plays the saphead and contributes several amusing scenes. Peter Higgins is a good, strong, agreeable baritone newly come to musical comedy, but Peter has no more than one short and rousing march and one half -good romance ballad to which to give his fine Toice. Tamara, a Russian Helen Morgan, is also handicapped by a lack of singing material. Don Tomkins and Doris Groday dance cleverly.

Lillian Bond is modestly fiery as the Bolshevist leader. The settings are by Donald Oenslager, are fitted to a turnable etaaA anI manom 4a stirnvaat a POP. MATINEE TODAY AT :3 HEYW00D BROUN IN HIS NEW RETCE SHOOT THE WORKS M. COHAN B'way A 43 St. ta.

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