The Best Plays

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

Comedy

Is ZAT So?--Pugilistic comedy that lands risible solar plexus with an awful wallop.

CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA -- Shaw comedy wherein a flapper Cleopatra plays verbal hide-and-seek with a superannuated Caesar.

THE POOR NUT--Elliot Nugent in a college comedy which is funny in spite of the atmosphere of learning.

THE FALL GUY--Ernest Truex as the simple drug clerk plays the innocent bystander to a bootlegging plot.

Drama

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -- Sandinavian virginity, slum bred, thrust into Italian vino-culture, and the upshot--brilliant acting.

WHAT PRICE GLORY?--Strong drink, strong language, strong men. Marines quarreling robustly in the muddy' outskirts of a great war.

WHITE CARGO--The frail missionary who not only takes to a black wench, but marries her in spite of the good advice of less squeamish but stronger friends.

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS--A bitter, bitter draft of a New England brew, concocted by that most artistic distiller of sour drinks, Eugene O'Neill.

Musical

For a light and laughable diversion, any of the following is prescribed: Grand Street Follies, Ziegfeld Follies, Lady, Be Good; Rose-Marie, The Student Prince, Louie the 14th.