The Best Plays

The Best Plays

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

Drama

OUTWARD BOUND -- The hereafter dealt with in the creepy, suspensive style of the mystery play, with a haunting voyage that proves that the last Cook's tour is the greatest of all.

THE MIRACLE -- Medieval religion splendidly boomed with all the latest and most expensive modern methods of exploitation.

TARNISH--A keen study of the world, the flesh and the gold digger.

IN THE NEXT ROOM--A mystery melodrama, all dressed up and on its best behavior.

SUN-UP--Discovering an American peasantry, hitherto known as Southern moonshiners.

RAIN--Still doing powerful missionary work for tolerance of white sinners in the South Seas, as well as native heathen.

SAINT JOAN--Bernard Shaw actually says a good word for religion.

HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN--A realistic and well acted play of the Kentucky mountains, with a skulking evangelist whose gospel is as dangerous as dynamite.

Comedy

BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK--The tired business man is dragged at the horse's tail of Kaufman-Connelly wit.

THE SHOW-OFF--Reading from left to right, your whole family--and maybe yourself. Comedy that cuts.

FATA MORGANA--Elusive and sophisticated mockery of an amorous matron holding love's young dream in her lap for one night.

THE POTTERS--A quaintly comic cross section of the American home, complete down to quarrels and oil investments.

THE NERVOUS WRECK--A surprisingly amusing application of the homeopathic treatment to strengthen a young man's nerve by smashing crockery all around him.

THE SWAN--A suave close-up of royalty having troubles with its own children as they become humanly romantic.

MEET THE WiFE--Satire on the wife who has two husbands to badger and still isn't quite happy.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC--Walter Hampden rising above himself in this matchless picture of the days when soldiers fought over the sonnets they wrote.

Musical

Epicures of musical comedy can react to Kid Boots, Poppy, Mary Jane McKane, Music Box Revue, Runnin' Wild, Andre Chariot's Revue, Lollipop.