The Best Plays

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

Drama

WHITE CARGO--Approaching its second year of proving that an exile blends with the people he adopts. In this case, the exile is an Englishman; and the people, African natives.

RAIN--Rigorous exposure of alleged missionary methods in the South Seas, with the sympathy pinned on a wandering girl whose profession is ancient if not honorable.

WHAT PRICE GLORY?--That part of France which the Marines salvaged from Germany. Generally accounted the greatest of the War plays.

COBRA--The snake makes drama still, even as when Eve first found it in the grass. Mostly melodrama.

THE MIRACLE -- Medieval magnificence rediscovered in a great religious pantomime.

CONSCIENCE--Chiefly the perform-ance of Lillian Foster as the girl who gave up the struggle when her husband went to jail.

Comedy

GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE--Ina Claire congenially occupied in divorcing a hus- band and remarrying him.

THE WEREWOLF--Daring discussion of topics not usually discussed. Laura Hope Crews as the Spanish noblewoman who fell into her butler's arms by mistake.

THE GUARDSMAN--Reviewed in this issue.

MINICK--Observant comedy of lower middle-class existence and what happens when father-in-law arrives for an endless visit.

THE FARMER'S WIFE--Mr. and Mrs. Coburn in a quietly bucolic pleasantry of middle-aged lovemaking.

EXPRESSING WILLIE--A modern business man mounts the steed of Self-Expression and there follows a runaway.

THE SHOW-OFF--The American, whose capacity for self-advertising quite swallows his capacity for perfecting the advertised product.

Musical

Color and comedy, girls and music are most dextrously blended in the following selections from the current schedule: Kits Revue, Ziegfeld Follies, Kid Boots, I'll Say She Is, Rose-Marie, The Dream Girl, Grand Street Follies, Scandals, The Grab Bag.