The Best Plays

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

Drama

COBRA--A thumping play causing the staring eye and the flushed brow, stirring up considerable expert excitement over the discovery that Eve is still the temptress.

Comedy

BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK--Vastly beguiling bit of foolery, proving that the paper-cutter is mightier than the sword when it comes to unhorsing the tiresome businessman.

EXPRESSING WILLIE --Delightfully satiric jabs at the man who acquires a fortune and then spreads himself on acquiring a soul.

FATA MORGANA&#!51;One naughty night done to a turn, in a saucy Hungarian comedy of the city siren and the country swain.

THE SHOW-OFF--One of the best etchings of the eternal boob, whose sprightly enthusiasm for himself remains undampened by a sparkling shower-bath of satire.

FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK-- The Provincetown Players' diverting revival of a comedy of the 40's, with all the sentiments, asides, songs, characters, indigenous to that engaging "Awkward Age."

Musical

High notes in the contemporary musical score are sustained most successfully by Keep Kool, I'll Say She Is, Chariot's Revue, Kid Boots, Innocent Eyes.