Best Plays in Manhattan

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

SERIOUS PORGY--All Negroes are not song and dancers, particularly when shrouded in the shadow of death (TIME, Oct. 24).

STRANGE INTERLUDE--Reviewed in this issue.

COQUETTE--A southern girl, flirting a bit too far, falls bitterly in love (TIME, Nov. 21).

Other well regarded serious plays are: ESCAPE; CAPONSACCHE; Civic REPERTORY THEATRE; BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM.

MELODRAMA THE RACKET--Chicago with its hair down (TIME, Dec. 12).

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN--In which a blonde was almost fatally suspected of knifing the gentleman whom she preferred (TIME, Oct. 3).

BROADWAY--The low down on the liquor industry, soft shoe dancing, cold hearted crime (TIME, Sept. 27, 1926).

INTERFERENCE--In which an eminently attractive Englishman gives his girl prussic acid (TIME, Oct. 31).

Other able melodramas: DRACULA; NIGHTSTICK.

FUNNY THE TAMING OF THE SHREW--Knock-about discoveries in the art of producing peaceful women (TIME, Nov. 7).

THE COMMAND TO LOVE--Horrid foreigners doing wholly dreadful things rather delightfully (TIME, Oct. 3).

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA--Bernard Shaw making dirty cracks about his doctor (TIME, Dec. 5).

BURLESQUE--A very low comedian with a very lovely wife barely manage to live happily ever after (TIME, Sept. 12).

THE ROYAL FAMILY--Actors and actresses acting actors and actresses (TIME, Jan. 9).

Other laughing matters: THE BABY CYCLONE; PARIS BOUND; THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY; THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND.

MUSICAL Loveliest, loudest, lightest: Manhattan Mary, Funny Face, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Show Boat.