Best Plays in Manhattan

SERIOUS

STRANGE INTERLUDE--In which a lady and her lovers speak their minds through nine acts (TIME, Feb. 13).

MACHINAL--Zita Johann, a new and excellent actress, in a baldly tragic play about a murderess (TIME, Sept. 17).

FUNNY

THE ROYAL FAMILY--Smart and human comedy about a great old actress and her helter-skelter descendants (TIME, Jan. 9).

THE BACHELOR FATHER--June Walker and Geoffrey Kerr in a decently indecent play about illegitimate children--for two more weeks (TIME, March 12).

THE HIGH ROAD--The old one about the actress and the English Lord--with new jokes and a bitter ending (TIME, Sept. 24).

EXCITING

THE SILENT HOUSE--A fiend in need is a fiend indeed (TIME, Feb. 20).

THE FRONT PAGE--Pressroom profanity occasioned by a jailbreak (TIME, June 4, Aug. 27).

MUSICAL

Jokes and jungfrauen--Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Good Boy, The New Moon.