The Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

YOUNG WOODLEY--Glenn Hunter in a skillfully sincere study of what happens to an English public school boy when he falls in love.

THE GREEN HAT--Mr. Arlen's fervent investigations into the past and present of a promiscuous lady, who was a pretty good sort even so. With Katharine Cornell.

A MAN'S MAN--Life under the Manhattan Elevated is a strange and touching business.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE-- Walter Hampden and Ethel Barrymore in an exceptionally satisfactory sample of Shakespearean production.

THE VORTEX--Noel Coward's cruel delineation of English folk plus money and minus morals.

CRAIG'S WIFE--A woman who makes home her religion and who left no responses in her litany for her husband's views and conversation.

THE DYBBUK--An old Jewish legend brought vibrantly to life by the sagacious experimenters at the little Neighborhood Playhouse.

IN A GARDEN--Laurette Taylor and an accomplished troupe discussing the matter of taking a lover or leaving a husband.

THE MASTER BUILDER--Ibsen's mordant masterpiece in a masterly interpretation by Eva Le Gallienne and others.

HAMLET--The modern clothes experiment which has proved one of the most singularly satisfactory ventures of the season.

LESS SERIOUS

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN--A wise, worldly and extremely witty exposition of life behind the scenes in the modern theatre.

ARMS AND THE MAN--Bernard Shaw's nips at the heels of war with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as the principal teeth.

ANDROCLES AND THE LION--Also Mr. Shaw's. The author snipes at the early Christian martyrs.

Is ZAT So? The hilarious prizefight piece that is presently to be exported to England, James Gleason and all.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--A ribald exercise about three married and matronly females with three earnest undergraduates.

MUSICAL For those who like light, loveliness, laughter there are the following: The Student Prince, The Vagabond King, Tip-Toes, Princess Flavia, The Cocoanuts, Sunny, Artists and Models, Rose-Marie, Chariot's Revue, No, No, Nanette.