Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

CRAIG'S WIFE--Prize play about a woman who dusted out her house so steadily that her husband choked and disappeared.

YOUNG WOODLEY--Sex in an English public school with Glenn Hunter supported by an able cast.

THE GREAT GOD BROWN--Eugene O'Neill's troubled study of a man who had no brains, but money enough to buy them from another.

BRIDE OF THE LAMB--Alice Brady giving a turbulent and true picture of a small town wife who mixed sex and religion with unfortunate results.

LULU BELLE--A Negress (light coffee) who made love so well that a French nobleman bore her off across the seas to Paris.

LESS SERIOUS

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY--Ina Claire casting her eminent charm within the circle of British nobility. Pearls are stolen.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--Three young men from college and three adventurous wives run down to the country for a weekend.

AT MRS. BEAM'S--The glittering tale of how Bluebeard and his next intended came to an English boarding house.

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS--Barrie in capable revival. Principally Helen Hayes.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST--Oscar Wilde in revival. Excellent, though starless performance.

THE WISDOM TOOTH--The thoughtful fantasy of a man who became a boy again for long enough to lose his job and win his girl.

MUSICAL Charleston, comedy and charm flourish in these: Iolanthe, Sunny, The Cocoanuts, The Vagabond King, Tip-Toes, and No, No, Nanette.