Drama

"LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH !"--Lionel Barrymore etches powerfully the obverse side of a clown's life, in a typical Belasco production, including the pet rainstorm.

THE LADY--Mary Nash takes the sting out of old-fashioned melodrama as the English show-girl who loved too respectably.

THE MIRACLE--Prodigal pomp and circumstance. Max Reinhardt and Morris Gest introduce Billy Sunday showmanship into religion.

IN THE NEXT ROOM--Mrs. August Belmont (author) turns suavely and ingeniously to the furniture to supply thrills in mystery melodrama. Murders on the instalment plan, but no shooting.

Moscow ART THEATRE--The Russians come once more into the breach.

OUTWARD BOUND--An excursion upon the vast ocean of the hereafter, en- thralling and moving, with a remarkable cast on deck to incite to thought.

RAIN--Still the pride of the South Sea Islands, but not of the missionaries.

SUN UP--A sharp cross-section of the Carolina Mountains trying to digest the late War.

SAINT JOAN--G. B. Shaw, encouraged by the Theatre Guild, seeks to bring Jeanne d'Arc and the world down to-earth.

TARNISH--Proves that discretion is the better part of voluptuousness.