Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Walter Hampden again reviving Rostand's classic.

THE DYBBUK - Jewish legend and mysticism in the season's best production.

LULU BELLE - Lenore Ulric's savage performance as a Negress courtesan, making a not particularly important play into memorable entertainment.

THE JEST - Color and cruelty of Italian intrigue interpreted by Basil Sydney and Violet Heming.

THE GREEN HAT - Katharine Cornell almost makes you believe it.

CRAIG'S WIFE - An American housewife whose worship of domesticity became intolerable.

THE WISDOM TOOTH - A glowing fantasy about a clerk who caught again a few hours of childhood.

LESS SERIOUS

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN - A backstage history of how a young man and his $20,000 were parted and reunited.

CRADLE SNATCHERS - A rowdy week-end with three elderly ladies and three young men from college.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY - English drawing room at its brightest and best with Ina Claire and Roland Young.

MUSICAL

Beauty sings and dances pleasantly in these: Wo, No, Nanette, The Cocoanuts, Sunny, Tip-Toes, The Student Prince, The Vagabond King.