The Best Plays

These arc the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seems most important:

Comedy

CESAR AND CLEOPATRA--Shaw jibes at the ancients through the accomplished sound boxes of the Theatre Guild and Helen Hayes.

Is ZAT So?--Prize-fighters' troubles with the world of pearls and chaperons.

THE FALL GUY--Ernest Truex as the turning worm in a middle-class comedy that is first-class entertainment.

THE POOR NUT--An obvious but entertaining fable about a college lad who won a Phi Beta Kappa key, a track meet and a girl.

Drama

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS--The bitter loneliness and granite atmosphere of a New England farmhouse blended by Eugene O'Neill into a gaunt tragedy of infidelity.

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED --Pauline Lord performs a miracle of acting as a poor waitress who married a farmer by mail and could not resist his hired hand.

WHAT PRICE GLORY?--A battle song with some blood, no heroes and a blast of bitter irony.

WHITE CARGO--What happens to an exile when loneliness merges into madness.

Musical

Chiefly noted for ridicule and melody are the following:

Ziegfeld Follies, Grand Street Follies; Lady, Be Good; Rose-Marie, The Student Prince, Louie the 14th, Engaged, Garrick Gaieties, George White's Scandals, Artists and Models.