The Best Plays

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

Drama

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED--Pauline Lord back in the cast giving the best performance of the past season in what was nominated by the Pulitzer Prize committee as the best play.

WHITE CARGO--Africa and high temperatures, which soften up a white man's morals and his selective tastes in women.

THE DOVE--An artificially colored melodrama of a Mexican dance hall, with fairly high excitement.

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS--Eugene O'Neill's solemn history of a New England farm and the young wife of the stern and rockbound farmer.

Comedy

THE POOR NUT--An undergraduate tale of Phi Beta Kappa keys, track meets and coeds. Impossible but pretty funny.

THE Kiss IN A TAXI--A French farce translated to U. S. tastes and made moderately amusing by an excellent company of players.

Is ZAT So?--Uppercuts and picturesque street talk as two prize- fighters stumble into a Fifth Avenue family.

Musical

For the fall trade in song and dance these are suggested: Follies, Artists and Models, Big Boy, The Student Prince, Rose-Marie.