"He Knew Women", with Lowell Sherman and Alice Joyce, is really a good bit of entertainment. There is no tremendous universal significance, there is no stark reality, but there is a cleverness of lines and acting on the part of of the parasitic leading man that makes the play enjoyable.
The plot is transparent from the beginning and quite naturally worked out; and the two minor characters do their work in a convincing manner. It is the story of a writer, a lady killer who must always be a sophisticated fop; at the same time having the sense to realize that he must marry money to have his necessary good time a light story amusingly done.
The stage show is, if you like that sort of thing, fairly satisfactory. The Gay Gordons, Clyde Cook; and a fellow named Oliver rather brought up the average. Though the jokes of the last-named wavered always on the edge of plain coarseness. Cook is good, and the Gordons put on a novelty program which is distinctly refreshing.
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