The Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

YOUNG WOODLEY--Glenn Hunter giving a masterly display as the English schoolboy who loved his master's wife.

THE GREEN HAT--Mr. Arlen's gaudy chromo made believable and moving by the performance of Katharine Cornell.

A MAN'S MAN--A dismal and deeply moving story of a clerk and his wife and their domestic difficulties in a cramped Manhattan flat.

HAMLET, in modern clothes--The strange experiment that everybody seems to like and very few will bother to attend.

THE VORTEX--A number of idle and glibly degenerate Londoners and how they found one another out.

CRAIG'S WIFE--The brilliant portrait of a woman who sacrificed herself and her husband to security.

IN A GARDEN--Laurette Taylor in a strange and sophisticated study of a wife who demanded her own individuality.

LESS SERIOUS

Is ZAT So?--Prizefighters and patricians foregather in a Fifth Ave. mansion, talk slang and fall in love.

THE POOR NUT--A college comedy so preposterous that it becomes de- cidedly amusing.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY-- Ina Claire, Roland Young and A. E. Matthews in a silken story of thievery in the British peerage.

ARMS AND THE MAN--Bernard Shaw's whip at the heels of war most capably snapped by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

ANDROCLES AND THE LION and THE MAN OF DESTINY--Another Shaw bill in which the first, the comedy of early Christian martyrs, is chiefly worthwhile.

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN--A comedy of stage life that shows just how difficult it is to make money out of the theatre.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--Old women and young men occupied in amorous hilarity, which will amuse you if it does not make you a trifle sick.

MUSICAL

Harmony and humor are most successfully combined in these: Rose-Marie, Artists and Models, Sunny, Princess Flavia, The Vagabond King, The Student Prince, Chariot's Revue, and No, No, Nanette.