Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

THE GREEN HAT--The silky philosophy of Michael Arlen made eminently credible by Katharine Cornell.

HEDDA GABLER--Special matinees of Emily Stevens and her able troupe of Ibsenites.

THE WISDOM TOOTH--The wistful fantasy of an unsuccessful man who succeeded in returning to his youth.

CRAIG'S WIFE--The sombre history of a hard-hearted housewife who found no place in her home for a husband.

THE JEST--The hot breath and cold laughter of Italian nights and days in a glowing revival, with Basil Sydney.

LULU BELLE--Lenore Ulric and a well trained troupe, mostly Negro, in an explicit tale of Harlem night life.

YOUNG WOODLEY--How sex came to an English schoolboy. Principally Glenn Hunter.

LESS SERIOUS

CYRANO DE BERGERAC--Rostand's classic tale of the man whose nose was too large for any woman to love.

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-- Last few weeks of the shrewd history of how a small fortune was lost and found behind the scenes of a Broadway play.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--Three slightly antiquated ladies take three callow college youths off for a weekend on Long Island.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY--A suave and subtle comedy of manners, good and bad, in English drawing rooms. Including Ina Claire.

MUSICAL

Ladies, lovers, jazz, and what have you? are agreeably combined in these: Sunny; The Cocoanuts; No, No, Nanette; The Vagabond King; Artists and Models; Tip-Toes; The Student Prince.