The Best Plays

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important:

SERIOUS

A MAN'S MAN--A little sin, a good deal of sorrow and a ray of sunlight under the Manhattan Elevated.

THE VORTEX--English wealth and English weaklings caricatured and pitied by and with Noel Coward.

YOUNG WOODLEY--A young man's first fierce love affair told in plaintive notes by Glenn Hunter as a British schoolboy.

THE GREEN HAT -- Katharine Cornell giving an immensely moving performance in Michael Arlen's most widely advertised inconsequentiality. *

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN--Tramps of the prairies fighting over a woman; amusing themselves to steal her from the law.

IN A GARDEN--Reviewed in this issue.

LESS SERIOUS

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN--A witty and knowing satire on the strange ways of people behind the playhouse scenes.

ARMS AND THE MAN--The fiery wit of Bernard Shaw roasting war on the spit of his early comedy. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

THE POOR NUT--A contemporary, native and unimportant laughing matter over young men and women in a Midland* college.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY--An English comedy of lords and ladies most engagingly performed by Ina Claire and Roland Young.

IS ZAT SO?--It seems there were a couple of prizefighters that met up with a bunch of swells.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--If you like to watch matrons who ought to know better dallying with college boys who know no better, you may like this one. Everybody else seems to.

MUSICAL

The best singing, dancing and things like that are found in: Big Boy, Artists and Models, Louie the 14th, Rose Marie, Princess Flavia, The Garrick Gaieties, Sunny, The Student Prince and No, No, Nanette.

*Midlands--Middle Western.