The Best Plays

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

Drama

COBRA -The fireworks of sex touched off somewhat luridly but albeit effectively.

THE WONDERFUL VISIT -Another revival of the Wells-Ervine fantasy of an angel rushing in where fools tread.

Comedy

THE SHOW-OFF -One of the best comedies of this or any other season -a life-size pastel portrait of a gabby American at full blast.

FATA MORGANA -Saucy Hungarian comedy, depicting the effects of the heat of the grand passion, for one night, on the half-baked young mind.

EXPRESSING WILLIE -Delightfully satiric jabs at the urge to parade one's ego under the banner of Self-Expression.

FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK -The "Awkward Age" engagingly revived by the Provincetown Players, with all indigenous sentiments, asides, characters -and chairs painted on the rolled-up curtain.

SWEENEY TODD -Reviewed in this issue.

BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK -Wholesale homicide of a babbitt family; a dream play, almost Gilbertian in its attempt to set the world right by standing it on its head.

Musical

Out of the hopper of musical comedy pour the following morsels for summer consumption: Keep Kool, Chariot's Revue, I'll Say She Is, Kid Boots, Innocent Eyes.