Drama

The Best Plays

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

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS--Eugene O'Neill bites below the thick skin of New England farmer loneliness. Infidelity in the foothills.

THE WILD DUCK--Ibsen's horrible jest at all his own life stood for. Wherein a young idealist scatters several lives upon the desert of despondency.

THE DOVE--A tailor-made melodrama of the Mexican dancehall, happy-ending type, in which Judith Anderson and Holbrook Blinn do some stylish acting.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED--Pauline Lord presents the best performance of the season as the ignorant child who married by mail because she was tired of slinging hash in San Francisco.

WHAT PRICE GLORY?--The sector of the French front most perfectly preserved in our literature. Marines, mud and a peasant girl.