New Plays

Helen of Troy, N. Y. Mr. Kaufman and Mr. Connelly play handball with the Babbitts of the collar industry through one of the most amusing musical-comedies ever seen. The plot isn't too obtrusive, and there's lots of pretty music as well, and a young lady called Queenie Smith displays herself as by far the most worth-while person of that cognomen since the time of old Captain John.

Burns Mantle: "A lively show lightly touched with smart humor. James Whittaker: " Fragrant, joyous, seductive. . . ."

The Scandals of 1923. Another rich, variegated, almost overpoweringly sumptuous review--full of jewels, revolvers and pulchritudinous squablets. Costumes, costumes, costumes--choruses, choruses, choruses. Much beauty and little wit--the Tiller girls--Tom Patricola--Johnny Dooley--Delyle Alda--the animated curtain from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth--a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane-- a number on Prohibition--a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon--and so on--and so on.