Best Plays in Manhattan

SERIOUS

COQUETTE--Helen Hayes plays and pays in Dixie (TIME, Nov. 21).

MARCO MILLIONS--Eugene O'Neill smiles and calls babbitts by bad names (TIME, Jan. 16).

STRANGE INTERLUDE--An ideal cast elucidates O'Neill's study of a forlorn lady's love-life (TIME, Feb. 13).

MELODRAMA

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN--Mary had a little jam, but she was white as snow (TIME, Oct. 3).

THE SILENT HOUSE--A Chinaman takes his friends for a slay-ride in London (TIME, Feb. 20).

DIAMOND LIL--Mae West, with rings on her fingers and under her eyes (TIME, April 23).

FUNNY

BURLESQUE--Heartbreaks for Barbara Stanwyck and headaches for Hal Skelly in a comedy of stage folk (TIME, Sept. 12).

THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY--Stage folk, by the Gleasons, running a small town hotel (TIME, Oct. 10).

THE ROYAL FAMILY--More stage folk, caught in the exciting moments of their troubled domesticity (TIME, Jan. 9).

VOLPONE--Ben Jonson's farce, furnished in the elaborate manner of Theatre Guild Renaissance (TIME, April 23).

THE HAPPY HUSBAND--A week end party in one of those bad manors--Miss Billie Burke almost gets herself seduced (TIME, May 14).

Other funny plays: PARIS BOUND, THE BACHELOR FATHER, OUR BETTERS. MUSICAL

For fun-loving rovers: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Rain or Shine, Show Boat, The Three Musketeers, Present Arms, Here's Howe, Blackbirds.