The Best Plays

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

Drama

TARNISH--A study in sex relations, pure and profane, conclusively demonstrating that men are a bad lot.

RAIN--A study in sex relations, pure and profane, demonstrating that missionaries are a bad lot.

THE LADY--A study in sex relations, pure and profane, bearing witness that artists are a bad lot.

"LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"--A study in the sex relations, pure and profane, proving the latter are more successful.

QUEEN VICTORIA--An indication that small portions of the populace still yearn for sweetness and light.

Comedy

AREN'T WE ALL?--Cyril Maude tickling that particular portion of the ribs sensitive to satire on the fallibilities of matrimony.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC--Walter Hampden resuming his brilliant success in Rostand's classic.

MEET THE WIFE--If your wife or mother has a habit of entertaining visiting British novelists you simply must bring her around to this play some evening.

THE POTTERS--Staccato commentary on the kind of man George F. Babbitt might have been had he never made any money.

THE NERVOUS WRECK -- Rampant farce regarding the irrevelancy of pink pills in the great open spaces.

THE SWAN--Sparkling synthesis of a brilliant comedy, consummate acting, perfect production. The family troubles of modern European royalty.

SPRING CLEANING--Wit and wisdom from the supersophisticated philosophers of the English drawing-room.

THE CHANGELINGS--The most imposing cast of the season amiably occupied with a comedy of modern marriage.

Song and Dance

Amid the considerable variety of strictly frivolous entertainment currently displayed, these stand among the leaders: Poppy, Music Box Revue, Wildflower, Topics of 1923, Ziegfeld Follies, Mr. Battling Buttler, Runnin Wild.