Season's Best in Manhattan

Hellzapoppin. Like life in a nut house at the height of a bombardment (TIME, Oct. 3).

Sing Out the News. A fast, lively, pro-Roosevelt revue (TIME, Oct. 3).

Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Clare Boothe's rollicking farce about a coy Southern belle who outsmarts Broadway's slickest wise-acres (TIME, Oct. 10).

Oscar Wilde. An honest play enlivened with Wilde's own wit, enriched with Robert Morley's superb acting (TIME, Oct. 24).

Hamlet. Maurice Evans in an uncut version: twice as long as the usual Hamlet, twice as good (TIME, Oct. 24).

Abe Lincoln In Illinois. Robert E. Sherwood's enthusiastic tribute to Lincoln, at its best when the words are Lincoln's own (TIME. Oct. 24).

Knickerbocker Holiday. The brightest musicomedy tunes and the dullest musicomedy book of the season (TIME, Oct. 31).

Leave It to Me! A good musicomedy starring a great musicomedian, Victor Moore (TIME, Nov. 21).

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