The Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

THE GLASS SLIPPER--Molnar's story of a servant girl with an overpowering imagination, brilliantly played by June Walker.

CRAIG'S WIFE--A sharply drawn portrait of a woman who wanted security more than anything else in the world.

A MAN'S MAN--A bitter little story of little intellects and great ambitions under the Manhattan elevated.

IN A GARDEN--Laurette Taylor gives one of her memorable performances as a wife who would not be a puppet,

YOUNG WOODLEY -- Adolescence and the dawn of sex are so often funny. Glenn Hunter is occupied with their pathos.

THE VORTEX--British society that has dieted so long on cocktails that its morals are dissolved.

THE GREEN HAT -- Katharine Cornell makes a gorgeous creature out of Mr. Arlen's somewhat shoddy Iris March.

HAMLET, in modern clothes--The strange experiment with Mr. Shakespeare's best, which most people like and the rest think terrible.

LESS SERIOUS

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY--A polished bit of drawing room conversation thriving under the charm of Ina Claire.

CRADLE SNATCHERS--A nasty tale of three young men and three older women, which has attained huge popularity.

ANDROCLES AND THE LION--Reviewed in this issue.

ARMS AND THE MAN--Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne make the most of Shaw's early ridicule of war.

THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-- Gregory Kelly in an expert parable of the strange things that occur between the stage door and the footlights.

THE POOR NUT--College comedy, furiously untrue to life and furiously funny.

Is ZAT So?--The slang comedy at its best, as a prizefighter and his manager stumble into wealth and high society.

MUSICAL

Songs and dances are on sale at the following recommended stands: Rose-Marie, Artists and Models, Sunny, Charlot's Revue, Princess Flavia, The Student Prince, The Vagabond King and No, No, Nanette.