Best Plays in Manhattan

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

SERIOUS

THE LETTER -- Katherine Cornell fanning into flame the embers of a minor murder tale.

PORGY -- Negro acting in a Negro tenement story about a cripple's love affair.

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE -- A sel dom-acted Ibsen piece amply played by Walter Hampden.

Civic REPERTORY THEATRE -- A collection of variously excellent plays given by Eva Le Gallienne's able troupe.

ESCAPE--Not conspicuously excellent Galsworthy startingly well-played by Leslie Howard.

COQUETTE--Reviewed in this issue.

MELODRAMA BROADWAY--Unlovely inhabitants of the underworld reveal secrets of night life, bootlegging & sudden death.

INTERFERENCE--Immaculate English description of a murder to end blackmail.

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN--Courtroom scenes as a sensational scandal case is called.

THE SPIDER--Magicians play their tricks to kill instead of to amuse.

DRACULA--Green lights, goose flesh, ghouls, moans.

FUNNY

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW--Basil Sydney, Mary Ellis, modern clothes, flashlights, a carpet sweeper, an automobile, etc., etc.

THE COMMAND TO LOVE--Sex playing its part in continental diplomatic circles.

THE ROAD TO ROME--In which woman's place is in the invading general's tent.

THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY--An unimportant but genial fable in slang.

BURLESQUE--Quick wit and broken hearts behind the scenes at burlesque shows.

MUSICAL

Irresponsibles prefer evenings at the following: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary, The Mikado, Hit the Deck, Chauve-Souris.