Best Plays

These are the plays which in the light of metropolitan criticism seem most important:

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL -- (Scheduled to appear only during the week of June 4-9.) The cast includes John Drew, Robert Mantell, Walter Hampden, Francis Wilson, Ethel Barrymore and others almost as famous. If it is as good as " The Players Annual Classical Revival" last year, it is decidedly worth seeing.

RAIN--The winds of religion blow over the mountains of psychoanalysis, while Jeanne Eagels, as an engaging harlot, battles with a rabid missionary. Rain, rain, South Sea RAIN beats down on one and all.

SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY--Laurette Taylor enjoying herself in a very old-fashioned melodrama-romance in which ladies wear yard- wide hats and gentlemen lace pants. A clean show about Charles II.

ICEBOUND--A picture combining New England character at its worst, womanly character at its best, a prodigal son at his prodigalest.

POLLY PREFERRED--Genevieve Tobin, a Cinderella of the movies, meets a go-getter godfather, who clothes her in splendor and wins her the right to tread the sacred soil of Hollywood in the slipper of fortune.

ROMEO AND JULIET--Jane Cowl shows that the philters of the great apothecary, Love, are still as potent as in the golden days of great Elizabeth.

SEVENTH HEAVEN--The Bowery of Paris reflected in the mirror of Romance, where a " very remarkable fella" (George Gaul) wins a "yellow haired wife" (Helen Menken). A new actor, the World War, takes the same old thrilling part that the Civil War played in the melodramas of 20 years ago.

YOU AND I--The humorous and pathetic struggle between utility and art, first visited upon a father, is again visited upon his son. A play polished with good acting and garnished by all the devices of the Harvard Workshop.

THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE--A brilliant last act and Roland Young, as the cynical and disillusioned " Gentlemanly Johnny Burgoyne," give Bernard Shaw another success with one of his early plays.

MERTON OF THE MOVIES -- Glenn Hunter and Florence Nash, tenderfoot and a sourdough of Hollywood, soften many a dour face with a satire on "the art of motion pictures."