Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

YOUNG WOODLEY -- An English schoolboy's introduction to the serpent sex. Including Glenn Hunter.

LULU BELLE -- Lenore Ulric giving a sharply explicit interpretation of a Negro courtesan.

BRIDE OF THE LAMB -- The story of a woman whose religion sprang from her love of a revival preacher. Alice Brady.

THE DYBBUK -- Jewish mysticism and strange romance in masterly production by the Neighborhood Playhouse.

CRAIG'S WIFE -- Dainty Mrs. Craig cleaned and garnished her house so sedulously that she quite swept out her husband. [Received Pulitzer Prize. ]

THE GREAT GOD BROWN -- An expressionistic work by Eugene O'Neill in which a rich man appropriates the poor man's brain.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC -- Walter Hampden continues his Rostand revival, alternating with The Servant in the House.

LESS SERIOUS

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS --An eminently satisfactory Barrie revival with Helen Hayes.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY --English wit and English polish in a story of some stolen pearls.

AT MRS. BEAM'S -- The reaction of a London boarding house to a Frenchman who murdered 40 wives.

IS ZAT SO?-- Good old favorite with prizefighting jargon.

CRADLE SNATCHERS -- Young men and old women off on a weekend.

Frank but funny.

THE ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY --Reviewed in this issue.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST -- Reviewed in this issue.

MUSICAL Song and joke books of special excellence are these: Sunny, The Vagabond King, By the Way, Pina fore, The Student Prince, Tip-Toes, Cocoanuts, Raquel Meller, lolanthe and No, No, Nanette.