Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 30, 1927

Ruddigore. With his painstaking productions of lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds.

The Grand Street Follies of 1927.

Here are all the pert buffoonery, sly satire, light irreverence of the Follies of yesteryear. Here, too, are the gay...

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