Monday, Oct. 22, 1923
The Best Plays
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important:
Drama
CASANOVA--Lowell Sherman as the greatest of the philanderers, against a background of violently expensive costumes and decorations. Also prominent: Katharine Cornell; a Fokine ballet.
CHILDREN OF THE MOON--Minor players scaling major eminences in a vigorous exposition of inherited insanity and the futility of over-possessive mother love.
RAIN--A jade is called a jade together with other interestingly unprintable synonyms. Jeanne Eagels is the recipient of the epithets; her surroundings are the South Seas.
SEVENTH HEAVEN--Helen Menken creating for herself a lasting name as the gutter-girl of Paris who knew the infinite value of faith.
SUN UP--To the individual who knows Carolina only as described in the tin-pan " mammy" songs, this primitive study of mountain people will be a beneficial surprise.
TARNISH--Proving that men are a bad lot. Brilliantly played and rather depressingly convincing.
Comedy
AREN'T WE ALL?--The glitter of clever lines in the setting of the perfect English drawing-room. -- Cyril Maude.
THE CHANGELINGS -- Wise and humorous discussion of certain! aspects of polite American life. Henry Miller, Blanche Bates, Ruth Chatterton help enormously.
IN LOVE WITH LOVE--Primarily a show window in which Miss Lynn Fontanne can exhibit her varied and effective histrionic wares.
MARY, MART, QUITE CONTRARY-- Mrs. Fiske and David Belasco cooperating pleasantly in high comedy by St. John Ervine.
THE NERVOUS WRECK--Reviewed in this issue.
TWEEDLES--Whimsical reflections on the futility of family trees. By Booth Tarkington, out of Seventeen.
WINDOWS -- Reviewed in this issue.
Musical Shows
For those who crave amusement set to music the following are especially recommended: Poppy, Music Box Revue, Greenwich Village Follies, Battling Butler, Wildflower, Scandals.