List

A quantity of new plays having been offered, mid-October found the following plays showing in Manhattan:

SERIOUS

Broadway--Home life among cabaret dancers. Sustained realism.

The Captive--Helen Menken as an Urning ; strange, artistic.

Deep River--Creole-mulatto opera by Laurence Stallings and Frank Harling.

The Donovan Affair--Jewels, darkness, murder, police.

The House of Ussher--A revival in oppressive Poe shadows for the benefit of hardy drama lovers.

Just Life--With very little relation to art.

Lulu Belle--Lenore Ulric in chocolate grease paint as a high-stepping Harlem-to-Paris harlot.

Red Blinds--Terrible.

Sandalwood--An uninteresting smirk relieved by Pauline Lord.

Sex --Trash.

The Shanghai Gesture--Florence Reed back at the corner of Hung Chow and Elm streets. Flesh-creeping hokum of the better sort.

The Woman Disputed.--Hun officer (Lowell Sherman) and Alsatian Angel (Ann Harding).

Yellow--A good triangle drama diddled into melodrama.

LESS SERIOUS

Abie's Irish Rose--Hearty perennial.

At Mrs. Beam's--Cannibalism in a British rooming house made funny.

The Blonde Sinner--Sleazy society mystery with music injected.

Cradle Snatchers--What raucous middle-aged women say and do to lull the scruples of undergraduate boy friends. Popular.

Fanny--Funny Fannie Brice in mushy melodrama.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes--From Ritz to Ritz with a wide-eyed gabber.

The Ghost Train--It moves.

Henry-Behave!--A stuffed shirt loses his memory, comes to in Congress; dull.

The Home Towners--South Bend, Ind., censors Manhattan. By comical George M. Cohan.

Honest Liars--Feeble farce in a sanatorium.

If I was Rich--If you do not mind the title you will like the show.

The Judge's Husband--Connecticut hen-peckery, with William Hodge.

The Little Spitfire--Another slavey in Southampton. Applause.

Loose Ankles--What unscrupulous young men confide to one another after a night with middle-aged girlfriends. Wise-cracky but feeble.

Number 7--Jewel-hunt in a deserted tenement.

She Couldn't Say No--Florence Moore slaps a sluggish affair into a smart success.

The Shelf--An amusing contrivance on the stay-young theme.

Two Girls Wanted--Innocuous country girl, pleasant businessmen.

What Every Woman Knows--Helen Hayes is an infinitely charming handmaiden to Sir James M. Barrie.

MUSICAL

The eye is gladdened, the ear well titillated at: lolanthe, Sunny, Castles in the Air, Naughty Riquette.