The Best Plays

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

Drama

WHAT PRICE GLORY?--The stern saga of wartime told at the French front with the 5th Marines. Perfectly played mockery of man, mud and guns.

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS -- The rocky strata of Eugene O'Neill's imagination, this time on a harsh New England farm. The triangle of an old man, his young bride and his grown son.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED --The vineyards of California, some of the sunshine and some of the bitterness, told by an old Italian peasant, the Frisco waitress he married by mail and a shiftless, handsome farm hand.

SILENCE--H. B. Warner, some detectives and a girl unravel a murder mystery in breathless, if not particularly important, fashion.

WHITE CARGO-- This grim little drama of a man's decay among the black brothers of Africa has been running longer than almost anything else in town.

CONSCIENCE-- A startling performance by Lillian Foster in the patchy parable of a girl who gave up trying when her husband went to jail.