Best Bets on Broadway

Billy Budd. An interesting stage version of Herman Melville's famous nautical allegory of good & evil (TIME, Feb. 19).

Darkness at Noon. Sidney Kingsley's effective dramatization of Arthur Koestler's sharp expose of the Moscow trials and the Communist mind (TIME, Jan. 22).

Twentieth Century. Gloria Swanson and Jose Ferrer pacing a revival of Hecht & MacArthur's gaudy, high-spirited 1932 spoof of show business (TIME, Jan. 8).

Guys and Dolls. Delightful low-down musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the babes who need new shoes (TIME, Dec. 4).

Bell, Book and Candle. Britain's Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison, consistently bright in John van Druten's reasonably bright comedy about a modern witch (TIME, Nov. 27).

The Lady's Not for Burning. Christopher Fry's exhilarating medieval verse play of a girl falsely accused of witchcraft, but pretty bewitching for all that (TIME, Nov. 20).

Call Me Madam. Big Broadway musical, with Ethel Merman as a lady ambassador to "Lichtenburg," but as, fortunately, no lady (TIME, Oct. 23).

The Member of the Wedding. Carson McCullers' sensitive study of a lonely, self-centered, self-dramatizing little Southern girl just one step from adolescence (TIME, Jan. 16, 1950).

South Pacific. Musical with a wartime South Seas background that has been causing something of a stir (TIME, April 18, 1949).

Kiss Me, Kate. Gay musicomedy which kids Shakespeare at his broadest and provides Cole Porter at his best (TIME, Jan. 10, 1949).

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