Best Plays

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

Drama

RAIN--Religion and morality mildewed by the ceaseless downpour of a South Sea Island.

WHITE CARGO--Going farther than usual in point of plot by mixing the white and the black in its discussion of disintegrated character in extremely foreign lands.

CONSCIENCE--A fairly flabby play of how a rotten husband will rot his wife's existence, blown to high pressure by the startling performance of Lillian Foster.

COBRA--Through the sundown summer season, this melodrama of the temptress Eve story twitched its tail bravely and with the coming of the new season has wriggled to renewed popularity.

S. S. GLENCAIRN--Reviewed in this issue.

WHAT PRICE GLORY?--Mud, the marines and one French girl found somewhere in France. An ironic War memorial that has not been equaled on the stage.

Comedy

THE WEREWOLF--In which the paprica pot of sex is skillfully sprinkled by Laura Hope Crews, Leslie Howard and Marion Coakley.

MINICK--American and mordantly middle-class narrative to the effect that old folks and young won't blend.

THE FARMER'S WIFE--Devonshire comedy in which Mr. and Mrs. Coburn are supplying a rural and uproarious commentary on marrying at five and fifty.

THE SHOW-OFF--The life and works of an irresistible self-confidence man.

EXPRESSING WILLIE--Laughing up the sleeve of the modern youth, the modern business man, Expressionism and the other current foibles of family life.

THE GUARDSMAN--Is a geat actor great enough to deceive his wife; and if so would she admit it? Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE--A skillful company going over the familiar process of remarrying a husband, with Ina Claire particularly prevalent.

Musical

In the girl and music department, the following are most divertingly displayed : Kid Boots, The Grab Bay, Rose-Marie, The Dream Girl, I'll Say She Is, Grand Street Follies, Scandals, Ziegfeld Follies, Ritz Revue, Annie Dear, Dixie to Broadway.