The Theatre: Musical Hokum

The Same Old Jazzes in the Same Old Way

Within a month the annual Spring Drive of musical comedies will be at ts height. By the first of June the hot weather revues will have usurped the roof gardens, the showmen of the metropolis will have banished serious drama from the theatre on the ancient theory that winter is the only time of year when the public cares to have its mind stimulated or its emotions massaged. All of which provokes one to philosophize on the musical show as...

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