New Plays in Manhattan

Lady Behind the Moon is a sickly adolescent play using the set of Philip Barry's Hotel Universe. As members of a bogus, theatrical beau monde, the characters are compelled to deliver languid aphorisms in that dialect which substitutes "Berris" for Paris. The story is about a violinist whose fiancee marries "the most famous lover in Europe" because she believes the virtuoso has been philandering. On her wedding night, however, she relents, is understood and forgiven by the famed amorist, promised a speedy divorce.

Right of Happiness. For its almost exclusive use of bromide and cliche, this drama deserves to be ranked as a collector's item. The home of a Dr. Wardell is inhabited by his wife Myra, an effervescent Russian girl named Sonia for whom life "goes booble-booble," a trained nurse, and Nikolas (Robert DuRoy, co-producer of the piece) who is Russian and also crippled. It is difficult for Nikolas to restrain himself in his devotion to Myra, for as the physician says, the house possesses "a certain magic in the air." After Nikolas learns that the doctor has delayed too long to operate on him for his deformity, he pounces upon Myra, whose screams bring the entire household into a pretty tableau of consternation at the Act II curtain.

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