Best Plays in Manhattan

SERIOUS

STRANGE INTERLUDE--Nine acts of exciting research on the subject of a semi-nymphomaniac's neuroses (TIME, Feb. 13).

MACHINAL--Arthur Hopkins' new star, Zita Johann, as a murderess in Sophie Treadwell's play which should be pronounced Makinal (TIME, Sept. 17).

Civic Repertory Productions--Worthy plays worthily and cheaply presented by Eva Le Gallienne. See especially The Cherry Orchard (TIME, Oct. 29).

FUNNY

GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS--Five newspapermen who know about newspapers gently telling part of what they know (TIME, Sept. 10).

THE HIGH ROAD--Snubbed by lords and libeled by ladies, a London actress enters the castle and decides, wittily and with charm, not to take the heir (TIME, Sept. 24).

LITTLE ACCIDENT--The catastrophe is not the title but a brat born out of wedlock and legitimized in the last act (TIME, Oct. 22).

EXCITING

THE FRONT PAGE--In which newspapers are excitingly slandered and in which a jailbreak makes a good story and nearly spoils a romance (TIME, June 4; Aug. 27).

NIGHT HOSTESS--Battles along Broadway and cabaret calamities by Philip Dunning (TIME, Sept. 24).

JARNEGAN--Only for those who would cheer on hearing Hollywood described as a place "where there is a pushover on every corner" (TIME, Oct. 8).

MUSICAL

Good News, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Good Boy, Billie.