New Play in Manhattan

New Faces (directed by Leonard Sillman and Elsie Janis; Charles Dillingham, producer).

She's resting in the gutter and she loves it. The bed just won't appease her any more, Because she loves to sorta putter in the

gutter

And she's been there putting since the night before.

Sung with doleful nonchalance by its author, James Shelton, this Gutter Song is one of the pleasant moments in New Faces. So is a parody of grim Tobacco Road in which Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs impersonate Erskine CaldwelFs hungry gluttons. Squeaks the largest pig: "I ain't had anything to eat, pappy, sense we et mammy last week."

Most of the performers in New Faces, a pee-wee revue, lacking a chorus, are unknowns recruited from Hollywood, Broadway and radio by Leonard Sillman who persuaded Elsie Janis and Charles Dillingham to come out of semi-retirement to back his production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment of its type.

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