Best Plays

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: SERIOUS LULU BELLE--Lenore Ulric in a startling concoction about a Negro courtesan who graduated from Harlem to Paris. YOUNG WOODLEY--The tribulations of a schoolboy whose first love is the wife of a faculty master. THE GREAT GOD BROWN--A stirring and occasionally obscure play by Eugene O'Neill discussing ex-pressionistically how an artistic spirit was submerged by modern competition. CRAIG'S WIFE--Chrystal Herne giving a keen portrait of a woman whose home became a sanctum in which even a husband had no place. THE WISDOM TOOTH--Glowing fantasy about a poor clerk who became a boy again for a few hours. CYRANO DE BERGERAC--Walter Hampden's more or less annual revival of Rostand's classic story of a man who made love for his more handsome friend. LESS SERIOUS THE LAST OP MRS. CHEYNEY--Ina Claire and a highly polished troupe in a story of stolen pearls in the English nobility. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN--The last few weeks of the tale of $20,000 behind the scenes in a Broadway show. Is ZAT So?--Prizefighters and society rub elbows and marvel at each other's vocabularies. MUSICAL Good figures, good fun and good voices are supplied in these: Tip-Toes, Sunny, Artists and Models, The Cocoanuts, The Vagabond King, The Student Prince and No, No, Nanette.