Best Plays in Manhattan

Best Plays in Manhattan

SERIOUS

PORGY--Negro tragedy made lively by the acting of a cast whose color will not run, under the superb direction of Rouben Mamoulian (TIME, Oct. 24).

COQUETTE--Helen Hayes making every-one cry in a play that contradicts some of the lilac legends about boys and girls in Dixie (TIME, Nov. 21).

STRANGE INTERLUDE--Eugene O'Neill's prolonged diagnosis of ills the flesh and the mind are heir to (TIME, Feb. 13).

MELODRAMA

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN--High pressure who-did-it proceedings, in which a chorus girl is called to account (TIME, Oct. 3).

THE SILENT HOUSE--Gun play with an oriental slant (TIME, Feb. 20).

DIAMOND LIL--Starring the wild and woolly Mae West (TIME, April 23).

FUNNY

THE ROYAL FAMILY--Hilarious and human exaggeration of home life among the stage stars (TIME, Jan. 9).

THE BACHELOR FATHER--Genteel animadversions on the illegitimacy question (TIME, March 12).

THE HAPPY HUSBAND--A sporting house-party. The lines are witty and Billie Burke's are nice (TIME, May 14).

Also BURLESQUE, VOLPONE, PARIS BOUND.

MUSICAL

GOOD NEWS--Song-and-dance marathon which has been running since before college opened last year (TIME, Sept. 19).

SHOW BOAT--An impressive, elaborate, stirring, etc., musical play .derived from Edna Ferber's novel (TIME, Jan. 9).

RAIN OR SHINE--Joe Cook's show (TIME, Feb. 20).

BLACKBIRDS OF 1928--Dark lightning in which Bill Robinson warms his heels (TIME, May 21).

THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES OF 1928-- Albert Carroll and other impersonators thumbing their noses at the season's diversions (TIME, June 11).