Best Plays

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

HEDDA GABLER - A generally satisfactory Ibsen revival with Emily Stevens and other brilliants.

THE GREEN HAT - Michael Arlen's gaudy chromo of the life and loves of Iris March (Katharine Cornell).

YOUNG WOODLEY - Glenn Hunter engaged in a discussion of growing pains and puppy love.

CRAIG'S WIFE - The portrait of a lady whose domineering domesticity bred revolt in the family.

THE DYBBUK - An alien legend of Jewish superstition, magnificently produced at the little Neighborhood Playhouse.

THE JEST - The glamor of an old success returns with new actors Basil Sydney, Alphonse Ethier, Violet Heming.

LESS SERIOUS

IS ZAT SO? - An entertaining merger of high society and low-brow prizefighting.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY - Exceptionally polite and shrewdly witty play from England, with Ina Claire as the chief figure in the drawing room.

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN - The vivid financing and the smiles and sorrow that are part of the production of a Broadway play.

CRADLE SNATCHERS - A crude rough-house about three elderly females off on a weekend with three undergraduates.

MUSICAL

Ankles, gaiety and high notes are blended most pleasantly in the folio wing :The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Cocoanuts, Artists and Models, The Student Prince, The Vanities, Tip-Toes, No, No, Nanette.