Best Plays in Manhattan

SERIOUS

COQUETTE -- Still the saddest play in town -- about a little Southern girl whose pretty face was her misfortune (TIME, Nov. 21 ).

STRANGE INTERLUDE -- Nine acts of Eugene O'Neill which tell, without wasted words, the intricate story of an unhappy woman (TIME, Feb. 13).

Also TWELVE THOUSAND, MARCO MIL LIONS.

MELODRAMA

DRACULA -- A bad count in a big cloak (TIME, Oct. 17).

THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN -- Mary was somebody's mamma but nobody's fool (TIME, Oct. 3).

THE SILENT HOUSE -- Reasonably parodied, in the Greenwich Village Follies, as THE VIOLENT HOUSE (TIME, Feb. 20).

Also DIAMOND LIL (for Mae West erners), THE SCARLET Fox.

FUNNY

THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY -- A hoofer and his wife buy a hotel in the hinterland (TIME, Oct. 10).

PARIS BOUND -- Smart fun among the younger epigrammarians (TIME, Jan. 9).

OUR BETTERS -- Ina Claire and the Maugham wraiths (TIME, March 5).

Also BURLESQUE, THE QUEEN'S HUS BAND, THE ROYAL FAMILY, VOLPONE.

MUSICAL Funniest -- Funniest-RAIN OR SHINE.

Barest -- GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES.

Brightest -- GOOD NEWS.

Darkest -- KEEP SHUFFLIN'.

Also running noticeably -- FUNNY FACE, MANHATTAN MARY, SHOW BOAT, CON NECTICUT YANKEE, THREE MUSKETEERS, THE FIVE O'CLOCK GIRL.