Best Plays

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

SERIOUS

LULU BELLE--Lenore Ulric in a story of a bad little colored wench. Sometimes shocking, often shoddy, always interesting. CRAIG'S WIFE--In which a husband very sensibly decides that if he cannot smoke in the parlor he will find a home elsewhere. THE GREAT GOD BROWN--Eugene O'Neill's agonized fancy about the purchase and sale of a man's soul.

LESS SERIOUS

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS-- Helen Hayes proffering a most engaging interpretation of Barrie's Maggie Shand. AT MRS. BEAM'S--Strange doings in a stuffy English boarding house when a boarder appears with a habit of eating females. CRADLE SNATCHERS--A wicked week-end party on which the hostesses are middle aged and the young men still in college.

MUSICAL

Hot nights are easily forgotten at Sunny, The Vagabond King, lolanthe, The Cocoanuts, The Merry World, Scandals, Ziegfeld's Revue.