Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 23, 1927

Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador.

One for All. An impecunious, consumptive scientist needs $900 to perfect his tuberculosis remedy. His good wife earns just that sum by vending her virtue to...

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