Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Nov. 14, 1927

The Arabian. Manhattan, which can go five years without seeing Walker Whiteside on the stage and scarcely bat an eyelash, saw him last week. Eyelashes remained firm. Somewhere, somehow for five years Mr. Whiteside had been making what is generally supposed to be an excellent living touring the smaller centres; part of this time in The Arabian, Manhattan is a vast collection of small town folk, most of whom fled to the city rather than face a whole lifetime, theatrically, of The Arabian. Mr. Whiteside plays a sheik whose power broods mightily...

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