The Best Plays

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

Drama

COBRA--Sloughing off the scales of sex, with very little hint of reptilian slime.

HER WAY OUT--A fairly absorbing picture of the seamy lining to the royal purple of Washington politics, with a touch of bawdy house atmosphere that does not offend the eyes with its red light.

THE WONDERFUL VISIT--Wells' and Ervine's stimulating play, wherein an angel holds the mirror up to human nature--and finds it cracked.

Comedy

EXPRESSING WILLIE--A deft satire of the business man who mistakes Spring fever for a yearning after soulfulness.

THE SHOW-OFF--A pungent comedy of human striving to impress, that is almost pathetic in its revelation of the insect-like futility of mankind.

BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK--A blazing satire on the Babbitt family, that yet extorts laughter from such successful morons themselves.

MEET THE WIFE--Last week of this comedy. A woman having her way over the embattled wills of two husbands.

Musical

High notes in the present musical comedy score are sustained most successfully by Chariot's Revue, I'll Say She Is, Kid Boots., Ziegfeld Follies, George White's Scandals.