Best Plays in Manhattan

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

SERIOUS

MAX REINHARDT'S SEASON -- The great German master lends alien magic to the Manhattan playbill.

CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE--Eva Le Gallienne's group giving some of the best things in town at sharply reduced rates.

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE--Henrik Ibsen's single entry in the season's lists thoughtfully prepared by Walter Hampden.

COQUETTE--A careless miss falls hopelessly in love with one she must not marry.

PORGY--Negro song and dance, sin and sunshine along the docks of Charleston.

MELODRAMA

BROADWAY--The oldest living veteran in the gang wars of the theatre.

THE RACKET--More recent gang war on a Chicago battlefield.

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN--In which a Follies beauty barely escapes the electric chair.

INTERFERENCE--Velvety London dialog muffles the shock of murder.

FUNNY

THE COMMAND TO LOVE--There is a great deal of bad in the best of European diplomats.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW--Shakespeare you can laugh at; all modern improvements.

THE ROAD TO ROME--General Hannibal hesitates to make love.

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA--Bernard Shaw scolds English physicians, including the old Royal Family doctor.

THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY-- Slang and complications as two vaudeville troupers settle in a small town.

BURLESQUE--Life on the burlesque circuits seen through the stage door.

MUSICAL

For pretty knees and nonsense: Manhattan Mary, The Mikado, Hit the Deck, Funny Face, Good News, Connecticut Yankee.