The Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

IN A GARDEN--Laurette Taylor and an exceptionally adept troupe telling about a woman who had everything in the world done for her.

HAMLET, in modern clothes--A courageous, clarified and extraordinarily well acted experiment on William Shakespeare.

THE VORTEX--England's sons and daughters gone a little stale in the ceaseless search for idle pleasure.

CRAIG'S WIFE--The portrait of a lady to whom a home meant more than a husband.

A MAN'S MAN--In which the thousand-dollar reach of certain forlorn city dwellers far exceeded their thirty-dollar grasp.

YOUNG WOODLEY--The first love of a young man taken seriously and with amazing penetration. Plus Glenn Hunter.

THE GREEN HAT--Patent-leather philosophies of Michael Arlen made durable by the excellent acting of Katherine Cornell, Margalo Gillmore, Leslie Howard and others.

THE DYBBUK--A Jewish legend miraculously brought to life in the most worthwhile entertainment in the city.

LESS SERIOUS

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN--A sage tale of life behind the scenes in the Broadway theatre.

ANDROCLES AND THE LION--George Bernard Shaw's ribald report of martyrdom among the early Christians.

ARMS AND THE MAN--The same Shaw's nudge at the ribs of war. The polite and pointed forerunner of What Price Glory.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--A good many people seem to enjoy this mildly mephitic tale of three older ladies and three undergraduates.

IS ZAT SO?--The facetious adventure of two durable prizefighters in the immaculate mansions of society.

THE POOR NUT--A foot race and a Phi Beta Kappa key, a girl and a boy, and a lot of college spirit. Funny, nevertheless.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY--One of those highly civilized English things, with Ina Claire as the lady who edges into society to steal its best pearl necklace.

MUSICAL

The girls are fairest, fools funniest and the music best at: The Cocoanuts, Artists and Models, Princess Flavia, The Student Prince, The Vagabond King, Sunny, Rose-Marie, Chariot's Revue, No, No, Nanette and Greenwich Village Follies.