The Best Plays

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

Drama

WHAT PRICE GLORY?--The rattle of bitterness against the glories of warfare put into the machine-gun minds of a pair of tough marines and a French peasant girl.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-- A story of infidelity under the grape arbors of California made brilliantly worth while by the presence of Pauline Lord.

THE DOVE -Machine-made theatricals of the Mexican dance hall girl fashioned in the realistic machine of David Belasco.

WHITE CARGO--The bitter blanket of loneliness and sun that smothers white men's morals among the natives of Africa.

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS--Other kinds of loneliness and more cruel consequences on a New England farm. A play by Eugene O'Neill.

Comedy

THE FIREBRAND--Ruddy irreverence of the plumes and verbiage and morals of Italy in the Middle Ages.

THE SHOW-OFF--The man who talks so much he ought to be hung up in a cage.

THE FALL GUY--Fussy little worm in a cheap Harlem flat who turns to sting the crook trying to step on him.

IS ZAT SO?--It seems there were a couple of prize fighters and they got into a swell house on Fifth Avenue.

LOVE FOR LOVE--Caustics and causeries with which Congreve amused the England of the Restoration.

THE POOR NUT--A boisterous, obvious but entertaining fable about a college lad who won a Phi Beta Kappa key, a track meet and a girl.

Musical

Chiefly noted for ridicule and melody are the following: The Follies, Rose-Marie, The Student Prince, Lady, Be Good, Louis, the 14th.