New Plays in Manhattan

Ruddigore. With his painstaking productions of lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds.

The Grand Street Follies of 1927.

Here are all the pert buffoonery, sly satire, light irreverence of the Follies of yesteryear. Here, too, are the gay settings of Aline Bernstein, the devastating mimicry of Albert Carroll. "Cautious Cal" sits on a Vermont front porch industriously knitting and singing the praises of isolation. Indignant sex-actors revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull and audaciously brilliant by turns, the revue is a gay finale to the life of the Neighborhood Playhouse.