Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

CRAIG'S WIFE--A native narrative of a woman who loved her home to death.

THE DYBBUK--Religious legend made the fabric of a strange and stirring love story.

THE JEST--Italian cruelty and color in a notably artistic revival.

THE WISDOM TOOTH--A clerk's anaemic character and how he strengthened it with a memory of his boyhood.

THE GREEN HAT--Michael Arlen's gilded defense of disrespectability made noteworthy by Katharine Cornell.

YOUNG WOODLEY--A study of the sex troubles of an English schoolboy who fell in love with a faculty wife.

LULU BELLE--Lenore Ulric giving a memorable performance as a colored courtesan in Harlem and Paris.

LESS SERIOUS

CYRANO DE BERGERAC--Rostand's classic in the exceptionally satisfactory production of Walter Hampden.

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN--A satirical investigation of how easy it is to lose money in the show business.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--A far-fetched but outrageously popular piece about middle-aged ladies and college boys.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY--Comedy of English drawing rooms with Ina Claire charmingly conspicuous.

MUSICAL

Song and dance are most agreeably supplied in: The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Cocoanuts, Tiptoes, No, No, Nanette, Artists and Models.