The Best Plays

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

Drama

OUTWARD BOUND--Creepily thrilling and adequately played drama which makes the hereafter a Swedenborgian sequel to life.

RAIN--Still proves that Art is indeed long, by the length of its run.

TARNISH--A natural study of the awful consequences of getting found out.

IN THE NEXT ROOM--Mystery melodrama as polite as Punch, but still having red blood.

SAINT JOAN--Bernard Shaw administers a characteristic lesson to History, though in the best spirit.

THE MIRACLE--The outward and visible sign of Max Reinhardt's inward and spiritual grace, assaying at $500,000.

MACBETH--James K. Hackett gives Shakespeare his due, by dint of a reverberant chest.

SUN UP--Grim drama of the Carolina peasants catching up on the War.

HELL-BENT PER HEAVEN -- Canting theology in the Kentucky mountains swept away on the tidal wave of its own retribution.

Comedy

BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK--A delightfully bizarre fantasy of a musical composer as a David slaying the Goliath of Big Business.

THE SHOW-OFF--An unique comedy with a luminous, searching study of the high priest of the American gospel of Bluff working at his trade.

THE SWAN--A royal house cannot lose its lustre even in the midst of a family shindig.

CYRANO DE BERGERAC--A gallant, infinitely humorous and beguiling classic, with Walter Hampden helping chivalry to win by a nose.

MEET THE WIFE--A fairly entertaining version of modern high class polyandry.

THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH-The younger generation paternalistically given a chance to show its hands.

FATA MORGANA--Risque, alluring satire of a city Venus who finds that ' one night in the country gives her all : she desires.

Musical

Epicures in musical comedy will find the following items from the current menu most delectable: Lollipop, Kid Boots, Mary Jane Me Kane, Poppy, Vogues, Runnin' Wild, Sweet Little Devil, Music Box Revue, Ziegfeld Follies, Chariot's Revue.