Showing in Manhattan

These are the plays which seem most important:

An American Tragedy--High spots of Mr. Dreiser's novel about a boy flung to the electric chair for not being a man.

The Barker--A ballyhoo romance of the circus, colorful and tense.

Broadway--The big hit.

Caponsacchi--Walter Hampden's company in picturesque drama based on Browning's The Ring and the Book.

Fourteenth Street Theatre--Eva Le Gallienne presents tried plays at popular prices.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes--Anita Loos's siren snooping about for goldfish.

Lulu Belle--Lenore Ulric as a colored prostitute who struts to Paris and strangulation.

The Play's The Thing--On de-scandalizing a prima donna.

Pygmalion--The Guild presents Shaw on making a Duchess Britannica.

The Road To Rome--Why Hannibal left town.

Saturday's Children--An altogether lovely, brilliant comedy of marriage without money.

Theatre Guild Repertory--The Brothers Karamazov, The Silver Cord.

Trelawny of the Wells--All-star revival of Pinero's play on actors.

These plays are also running:

Abie's Irish Rose--The races nip each other before conglomeration.

Chicago--Tabloid slush drools over a murderess. Burly satire.

The Constant Nymph--Sanger's Circus on the stage. Eventful temperaments.

The Constant Wife--Ethel Barrymore in sophisticated comedy on love outside wedlock.

Crime--The perfect robbery by a sainted criminal.

The Devil In The Cheese--Gentle romance of a girl's dreamlife.

Fog--Mystery melodrama aboard ship.

Gertie--Poor but honest in a wicked city.

Grand Guignol--Unrefined cruelty in horror plays.

The Ladder--Reincarnation with optimistic overtones.

Ned McCobb's Daughter--A Maine woman with a thieving husband and New England conscience. By the Guild Company.

New Playwrights Theatre--Earth, Loud Speaker, and other plays by American authors.

Night Hawk--Successful revival.

The Noose--Melodrama with many tears, about a boy who shot for Mother's honor.

The Scarlet Lily--Pale account of a War bride on a farm with temptation.

Set A Thief--Shrieks in the night; one of the better horrifiers.

Sinner--Amusing comedy about a little wife who forgot that business comes before everything.

The Squall--A thousand-watt Mamma invades a Spanish household.

Tommy--A cute comedy on marriage in spite of parents' consent.

Two Girls Wanted--A lily-white yet amusing comedy of rustic simplicity triumphant.

What Anne Brought Home--The gentle bridegroom victorious by making a fish farm out of a mud hole.

Window Panes--Russian lovelight shining through.

Wooden Kimono--Insanity, murder, mystery and every other creepy thing.

ENTERTAINMENT WITH Music

Countess Maritza, Criss Cross, The Desert Song, lolanthe, The Nightingale, Oh, Kay!, Peggy-Ann, Pirates of Penzance, Queen High, Scandals, Bye, Bye, Bonnie.

CINEMA

Beau Geste, The Better 'Ole, The Big Parade, Don Juan, The Fire Brigade, Old Ironsides, Metropolis, Stark Love, Tell It To The Marines, What Price Glory.