Best Plays in Manhattan

SERIOUS

JOURNEY'S END--English gentlemen in a World War dugout, emotionally stripped for action (TIME, APRIL 1).

STREET SCENE--Pulitzer Prizewinning sequences of love, dialect and death in Manhattan's brownstone belt (TIME, Jan. 21).

LIGHT

LET US BE GAY--Blithe dialog by Rachel Crothers about divorce and remarriage (TIME, MARCH 4).

BIRD IN HAND--Playwright John Drinkwater forgets Lincoln and Lee to write picturesque comedy in an English inn (TIME, April 15).

THE CAMEL THROUGH THE NEEDLE'S EYE--A Theatre Guild success story with naughty Viennese overtones.

MUSICAL

Smart and Small: The Little Show. Large and Lavish: Show Girl. Fast, Full and Funny: Hold Everything, Hot Chocolates (Negro), Follow Thru.