Best Plays in Manhattan

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

SERIOUS

PORGY--A Negro cast acting a Negro tragedy with eminent ability.

COQUETTE--Helen Hayes superbly revealing the love tragedy of a small southern town.

MAX RIENHARDT'S SEASON--German productions, enormous, delicate, beautiful, unique.

JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK--The best of the Irish theatre in a glowing exceedingly native importation.

Other well regarded serious plays are ESCAPE; BLESS YOU, SISTER; CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE'S series; BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM.

MELODRAMA

BROADWAY--The stern saga of love and gunnery behind the scenes in a Manhattan night club.

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN--A courtroom scene in which a very lovely lady just escapes the death penalty.

INTERFERENCE--A most imposingly well mannered English murder.

THE RACKET--Police, bootleggers, easy virtue, guns, two deaths; Chicago in the rough.

Other able melodramas: NIGHTSTICK ; DRACULA ; CELEBRITY.

FUNNY

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA--Flawless reincarnation of Bernard Shaw's early cartoon of London doctors.

THE ROYAL FAMILY--Reviewed in this issue.

THE COMMAND TO LOVE--Diplomats with their hair down.

BURLESQUE--Life laughs in tights and putty noses behind the scenes in burlesque theatres.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW--Boisterous Shakespeare with all modern improvements.

Other laughing matters: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY; THE BABY CYCLONE; PARIS BOUND.

MUSICAL

Songs and slips on the banana peel are well managed in: Manhattan Mary, Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Good News, Funny Face.