Drama

The Best Plays

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

Drama

"LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH !"--Lionel Barrymore in a shiny new version (Belasco) of the clown yarn--he who could smile for everyone but himself.

THE LADY--The rumble of melodrama returning like a pleasant echo from the hills of 20 years ago.

IN THE NEXT ROOM--Hushed melodrama of the who-killed-him school of mysteries.

SAINT JOAN--The Theatre Guild reaping further distinction with Bernard Shaw's tonic chronicle of the deadliest female.

ROSEANNE--The bitterness of Southern Negro life told in a play with no white characters.

SUN UP-Primitive passions among the poor white peasants of the Carolina mountains.

TARNISH--Severe exposition of the theory that the male is a promiscuous animal.

OUTWARD BOUND--Reviewed in this issue.

Moscow ART THEATRE--The third appearance in Manhattan of the greatest repertory troupe.

RAIN--People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan.