Monday, May. 24, 1926

Theatre

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

SERIOUS

BRIDE OF THE LAMB -- Alice Brady giving a burning interpretation of a relation between sex and religion in a shoddy but irresistibly exciting play.

YOUNG WOODLEY -- English schoolboy life and the dawn of sex in a young man. Mainly Glenn Hunter.

CRAIG'S WIFE -- The portrait of a lady who dusted her house so clean that her husband left it flat.

LULU BELLE -- Lenore Ulric in a gutturally exciting portrait of a Negro courtesan who conquered Harlem and then Paris.

THE DYBRUK -- Strange mysticism of Jewish religious legend made enormously important by perfection of production.

LESS SERIOUS

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS --J. M. Barrie's fortunate revival, with Helen Hayes as the sage female.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST -- What many consider Oscar Wilde's best comedy glibly brought to life by a good cast from the Actors' Theatre.

THE ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY -- A Spanish comedy of dreams and sharp reality with Mary Ellis dreaming the principal dreams.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY -- Ina Claire and a patent leather troupe of Londoners stealing pearls from each other.

AT MRS. BEAM'S -- Have you ever lived in a stuffy boarding house at which there arrived a man who had murdered 37 wives?

CRADLE SNATCHERS -- Boisterous and raw material about middle-aged married women and roving undergraduates.

MUSICAL

The weary seeker after simple pleasures and the lovers of good music divide their time among the following: The Vagabond King, Iolanthe, Sunny, The Cocoanuts, Tip-Toes, By the Way, Pinafore, The Student Prince and No, No, Nanette.