Best Bets on Broadway

As much Broadway landmarks as shows are Life with Father, Oklahoma!, The Voice of the Turtle. Other dramatic highlights:

Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME, Feb. 18).

O Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME, Feb. 4).

Show Boat. Still a topflight musicomedy, with probably the best-loved of all musicomedy scores (TIME, Jan. 14).

Pygmalion. Gertrude Lawrence as G.B.S.'s cockney flower girl who mended her speech as a way to make her fortune (TIME, Jan. 7).

Dream Girl. Elmer Rice's entertaining portrait of a young lady given to spacious daydreams, with samples of her dreaming (TIME, Dec. 24).

State of the Union. Bright topical comedy about a straight-shooting would-be President saved from the party bosses by his wife (TIME, Nov. 26).

Carousel. Richard Rodgers' & Oscar Hammerstein II's charming New England-in-the-'70s musical adaptation of Liliom (TIME, April 30, 1945).

The Glass Menagerie. Touching picture of a troubled, shabby-genteel family with Laurette Taylor superb as the mother (TIME, April 9, 1945).

Harvey. Delightful fantasy of a gentle drinking man and the 6 ft. 1 1/2 in. rabbit he pulls out of his glass (TIME, Nov. 13, 1944).

I Remember Mama. Picturesque, nostalgic pages from a Norwegian-American family album (TIME, Oct. 30, 1944).

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